@ura-soul excellent post. I wrote something similar about a week ago based on a recent article written in New York Times.
For the past few years, the Harvard professor David Keith has been sketching this vision: Ten Gulfstream jets, outfitted with special engines that allow them to fly safely around the stratosphere at an altitude of 70,000 feet, take off from a runway near the Equator. Their cargo includes thousands of pounds of a chemical compound — liquid sulfur, let’s suppose — that can be sprayed as a gas from the aircraft. It is not a one-time event; the flights take place throughout the year, dispersing a load that amounts to 25,000 tons. If things go right, the gas converts to an aerosol of particles that remain aloft and scatter sunlight for two years. The payoff? A slowing of the earth’s warming — for as long as the Gulfstream flights continue.
thanks! i posted the original katalist to other sites and got mainly abuse from trolls who, despite me providing a list of common troll tactics - continued to just deny the details and claim that i was the one doing the denying.
anyway, let's keep shining light on the subject and doing what can be done to stick to the provable facts.
Unfortunately it has become really hard to convince people of anything nowadays. That old saying "my mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts" is so true and so present in our society.
it helps to realise that 'the truth does not need to be convincing' and so we don't need to get involved with attempting to convince anyone. either the evidence is incomplete or the idea is wrong or the others are in denial.
I don't believe its denial entirely, it's fear. Which, I guess, creates cognitive dissonance.
fear is usually being denied, which results in it's effects being amplified and mental doors being closed. fear is always involved with a denial of something, i think.
denial is the main problem on earth presently, yes. denial of denial is the absolute killer. whenever an aspect of reality is prevented from being present in consciousness, then denial is involved. we can always feel the presence of denial and it is the feelings that have been most heavily denied!