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Slacker · Feb 28, 2023

We're gonna science and social-media this world into oblivion.

Twirling Time · Feb 28, 2023

Neutral Corner said: ↑

A ‘climate solution’ that spies worry could trigger war
Solar geoengineering holds promise for reducing global temperatures. Absent international agreements, it could also spark conflict.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/27/geoengineering-security-war/

"It sounds like something out of science fiction: A country suffering from heat, flooding or crop failures decides on its own to send out a fleet of aircraft to spray a fine, sun-blocking mist into the earth’s atmosphere, reducing temperatures and providing relief to parched populations. Other countries view it as a threat to their own citizens and ready a military response.

But members of the U.S. intelligence community and other national security officials were worried enough last year to plot how to avert a war triggered by this kind of climate engineering. In a role-playing exercise, they practiced managing the tensions that would be unleashed, according to people familiar with the exercise, a sign that they see it as a credible threat in need of a strategy.

The practice, known as solar geoengineering, is theoretically possible. And as the world’s most vulnerable populations suffer more sharply from rising temperatures, global decision-makers will likely come under heavy pressure to deploy the technology, scientists and policymakers say. Compared to other methods to combat the effects of climate change, it’s likely to be cheaper and faster.

Because the technique could weaken the sun’s power across the globe — not just above whichever country decided to deploy it — security officials are concerned about the potential to spark conflict, since a single capital could make decisions that shape the entire world’s fate.

“Parts of the U.S. government are rightfully focused on trying better to understand this,” said Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center, referencing last year’s geoengineering exercise. “If you don’t understand it, you can’t manage it.”

The science is evolving, said Goodman, a longtime expert on the intersection of climate change and security. But global discussions haven’t kept up, leaving a powerful technology largely unregulated internationally.

“It could be weaponized by a country to either try to improve the climate and reduce the temperatures in their own location or against an adversary,” Goodman said. “It could be threatened in a way that could cause fear or panic among populations.”

If a country puts this up, it does not stay over that country. You could start a panic among the uneducated who are told that it will dim the sun, affect crops, cause hunger. Think Chinese balloon type citizen response couched as a threat of hunger in propaganda, or that it was a direct attack by a neighboring country.
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I live in the Southern Plains. I'll take a hit or three of that sun-blocker please.

BTExpress · Feb 28, 2023

Low in Yakutsk on Wednesday is minus-42. Don't even think about it, they say.

micropolitan guy · Feb 28, 2023

More snow in Microville. A 30-mile stretch of I-5 is closed in Southern Oregon. I k now it's still February but I am so sick of this shit.

Batman · Feb 28, 2023

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Low in Yakutsk on Wednesday is minus-42. Don't even think about it, they say.

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Yakutsk was always my favorite starting territory in Risk.

BTExpress · Feb 28, 2023

Risk is a U.S. State Department dream.

Russia doesn't exist, and Ukraine is about 8-9 times bigger than it should be.

Michael_ Gee · Feb 28, 2023

Batman said: ↑

Yakutsk was always my favorite starting territory in Risk.
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Australia is the winning starting territory.

I Should Coco · Feb 28, 2023

Michael_ Gee said: ↑

Australia is the winning starting territory.
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Yes. Once you have it, only one way others can attack, so just pile up some armies in Siam and keep getting those two armies each turn.

Batman · Feb 28, 2023

Michael_ Gee said: ↑

Australia is the winning starting territory.
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Whenever I played it seemed like somebody always beat me to claiming Australia. Northeast Asia usually winds up largely unclaimed, so you can easily spread out, create a buffer zone and collect some armies, and have easy access to North America when the time is right.

Chef2 · Feb 28, 2023

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What was your score on the back nine?
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Many

Inky_Wretch · Feb 28, 2023

83 today. Snow on Friday. Fuck that.

Twirling Time · Feb 28, 2023

Big storm chances on Thursday. The nader chasers will be out.

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