Anonymous ID: bde9bc Dec. 7, 2020, 6:13 a.m. No.11934206   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4233 >>4244 >>4285 >>4421 >>4437 >>4453

Check it out. Admitting they HAVE BEEN manipulating weather, and that CHEMTRAILS are fricken REAL.

 

Should scientists artificially cool the planet to stave off climate catastrophe?

 

What is geoengineering?

Some climate scientists are coming to believe it's humanity's only hope for slowing or stopping disastrous changes in the climate. As runaway carbon dioxide emissions contribute to melting ice caps, widespread flooding, prolonged heat waves and droughts, apocalyptic wildfires, and devastating hurricanes, researchers are exploring planetary-scale interventions in Earth's natural systems as a way of counteracting climate change. Geoengineering has been debated since the 1960s, when U.S. scientists suggested floating billions of white, golf ball–like objects in the oceans to reflect sunlight. Interfering in natural processes was widely considered naïve and dangerous until recently, but as the window to curb global warming shrinks, proposals to reflect sunlight, shade Earth's surface, accelerate carbon absorption in the oceans, and remove CO2 from the air are being taken more seriously. In October, SilverLining, a nonprofit, gave $3 million toward climate-engineering research. "I liken geoengineering to chemotherapy," said Michael Gerrard, a professor of environmental and climate law at Columbia University. "If all else is failing, you try it."

 

What are the most plausible proposals?

SilverLining's grant recipients are researching whether humans can blast sunlight-reflecting aerosol particles into the stratosphere, mimicking the cooling effect of volcanic ash clouds. In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, spewing sulphate particles into the atmosphere that caused global temperatures to drop 0.6 degrees Celsius over the next two years. Solar-radiation management would involve sending fleets of airplanes up about 65,000 feet, where they'd spray sulfate aerosols into the upper atmosphere, or perhaps even diamond dust. A research team at Harvard University projects that if high-altitude tankers had the capacity to make 60,000 particle dumps by 2035, it would shave off 0.3 degrees Celsius of warming.

 

What else is being explored?

Another idea is to pump salt water from oceans into the air, forming water droplets that would make marine clouds brighter and thus more reflective. Australia is funding research, hoping enhanced clouds could cool water temperatures enough to save the already damaged Great Barrier Reef. Cambridge University researchers are studying whether ships can pump salt particles into low-lying polar clouds to help refreeze polar ice caps. Other researchers wonder whether seeding oceans with iron could stimulate the growth of marine algae, which soaks up CO2 from the air. For now, solar-radiation management is thought to be scientifically the sturdiest candidate. "We know with 100 percent certainty that we can cool the planet," said Dr. Douglas MacMartin, a Cornell University engineer.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-artificially-cool-planet-stave-110003837.html

Anonymous ID: bde9bc Dec. 7, 2020, 6:53 a.m. No.11934507   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4546

Ellen DeGeneres Pays $49 Million for Dennis Miller’s Cape Dutch-Style Montecito Compound

 

Back in October, “Saturday Night Live” alum-turned-multimedia host and conservative political commentator Dennis Miller and wife Slim Paley rocked Montecito by inking a clandestine, off-market deal to sell their vast estate for a whopping $49 million in cash.

 

At that time, the new owners’ names were not publicly known, but now it turns out the mystery buyers were Ellen DeGeneres and her longtime wife Portia de Rossi, as was first revealed by the Wall Street Journal. The property-mad pair have a extensive and highly publicized affinity for buying and selling some of Santa Barbara’s most valuable homes.

 

Way back in 2006, the couple dropped $15.8 million on a Montecito estate that they sold the following year to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Several years later, in 2013, they paid another $28.8 million for another Montecito compound that was offloaded five years later for $34 million to Netflix COO Ted Sarandos and his wife Nicole Avant. In fall 2017, they shelled out $7.2 million for a late 1800s Montecito ranch that sold just eight months later for $11 million to Tinder founder Sean Rad. Also in fall 2017, the couple paid $18.6 million for a waterfront Carpinteria mansion that they lucratively flipped to cosmetics mogul Jamie Kern Lima in summer 2019 for $23 million. That same year, they tossed out $29 million for a Bali-style compound that was flipped last month for $33.3 million to an as-yet-unidentified billionaire. And just this August, they paid nearly $27 million for a Tuscan-style Montecito mansion that has already been resold — for a hefty $29 million — to venture capitalist Marc Stad.

 

However, this particular splurge is the couple’s biggest yet, and one of the priciest deals ever inked in Santa Barbara County, behind only the $63.3 million paid by Riley Bechtel for his far larger, 237-acre Montecito ranch and the widely reported $50 million Oprah Winfrey paid for the bulk of her 66-acre “Promised Land” fiefdom, way back in 2001.

 

Of course, DeGeneres’ new 4.3-acre compound isn’t just any old 4.3-acre Montecito compound, it’s a fairytale-like confection of an estate that more closely resembles a small village than an ordinary home. The sprawling property sits behind walls and tall gates and comprises five separate structures — there’s a guesthouse, a detached garage building, a poolhouse, a barn designed by venerated architect Tom Kundig, and a 9,000-square-foot main mansion designed in an authentic South African Cape Dutch architectural style.

 

Per property records, Miller and Paley paid $11 million in 2006 for the three-parcel property, and spent nearly a decade cobbling together the premises. All five of the buildings surround a central lily pond that’s the size of a small lake, stocked with fish and equipped with a rowboat to boot. Set on a knoll just above the pond is an infinity-edged swimming pool with bird’s eye views over the entire property; for exercise aficionados, an array of pathways criss-cross the entire compound, perfect for a scenic jog or walk.

 

Since the property was never on the market, photos are few, but tax records and aerial views show there are 16,000 square feet of total living space, an organic vegetable gardens, mature specimen trees, vast motorcourts with parking for 30+ cars, lush green hillsides, and hidden outdoor seating areas for moments of reflective solitude.

 

Besides their new Montecito mega-estate, DeGeneres and de Rossi still maintain a small condo elsewhere in Montecito, plus a $42.5 million Beverly Hills mansion they bought from Adam Levine last year. Though it’s not currently for sale on the open market, that Beverly Hills property is believed to be quietly available for showings to qualified buyers, if you know the right L.A. real estate broker to call.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ellen-degeneres-pays-49-million-205431747.html