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A new proposal suggests using the world’s largest-ever nuclear explosion — buried deep under the ocean — to combat climate change by pulverizing massive amounts of carbon-absorbing rock.
Andrew Haverly, a researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Computer Engineering, proposes detonating an 81-gigaton nuclear device beneath the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean. That’s over 1,600 times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested (the Tsar Bomba). More
With him sitting on it, maybe.
This comes from somebody so utterly dense and ignorant to have learned NOTHING from Hunga Tonga.
OK, Andy, how much water vapor will your stupid-huge nuke inject into the upper atmosphere? Do you know what the so-called “greenhouse” effect is of H2O compared to CO2? Did yo mama ever succeed in teaching you to tie your shoes?
I’ll buy him one!
That is taking the DuPont spinner to the next level.
is he trying to release Godzilla?
Iz this the ghost of Dr Strangelove or whut???
This is the Nukin Futz Muther of all theories!!
Don’t buy your kids science kits.
It makes them want to progress to doing stupid shit as adults apparently.
Just an opinion, F off genius !!!!!!
Science.
What the sweet cornbread hell?
Andrew Haverly just wants to hack the entire world. He’s an ambitious SOB.
I think if they stick dynamite up their rear orifice and set it off we would eliminate more Carbon emissions than they can imagine!
Oh good grief. Plant trees!
Carbon dioxide is vital to plant life. Less plant life, less people.
Ergo, climate change cult wants to kill people.
They need to start with themselves and prove how serious they are about reducing their own carbon footprint.
Is he trying to set himself up so he can run for a democrat office?
Does he have a plan for the carbon emitters that dwarf what humans make?
How is he going to plug all the volcanos “polluting” the world?
As if busting up the mantle won’t release a s**t ton of carbon and make more volcanos that constantly spew it.
Leave that kind of work up to God. Quit trying to play Him. That goes for Mr Gates too, with his ideas of shading earth with crap in the atmosphere.
Minor problem: The oceans contain FIFTY times the CO2 as the atmosphere. Such a nuke in the oceans might act like a giant Mentos in Gaia’s saline soda.
Added bonus: Remember how sad people got about the release of radioactive material from Fukishima?
I blame the Sci-fi movie industry in making everyone believe that nukes are the solution to all problems. They have warped the minds of kids who grow up to propose s#it like this as adults.
Scientists, bless their hypothetical hearts. Do the Doomsday Clock Scientists know about this? Somebody better go tell them so they can move the hand again.
Whats fun is that if all co2 on earth is gone all life will die
I suggest all the COVID scientists, Big Pharma, USAID employees and intelligence officers who stated the Hunter Biden lap top was a russian creation go to Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Computer Engineering we’ll drop a MOAB. No need for a Nuclear device.
It won’t have any impact on the climate but the collective US intelligence will be increased.
The guy is an idiot. Anyone who believes CO2 is problematic is a brainwashed moron. The mindless dolts should commit suicide if the truly want to save the planet. They’d be saving the planet from their stupid ideas like nuking the ocean.
Absolute insanity. Trump and now Musk Derangement Syndrome has got
progressive elite demoniacs flipped out. They’re not in control so they want to blow up the ocean to cause a cataclysmic event that would destroy countless lifeforms and so-called ecosystems on Earth.
These evil people need a taste of their own medicine. Their proposed warped “I am science” theories should be applied to them first, and rid the world of the real carbon footprints threatening the planet.
I can’t think of a single unanticipated negative consequence. So blast away, boys! Let God sort it out.
An enviroweenie calling for a nuke explosion? What’s next?
Pelosi loses money in the stock market?
KJP admits she like the D?
Sotomayor and Kagan are found to have IQ’s above 80?
Kentaji-Brown Jackson is found to have an IQ?
Newsome has a bad hair day?
SNL starts being funny again?
JHFC… What a fucking asshole. The suggesting itself warrants him getting a full power Muay Thai kick to the face.
Scuse me, but why would ANYBODY take “a researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Department of Computer Engineering” (a computer nerd) opinion about EnviroNazism (or anything other than computer stuff) seriously?
Why is this even news?
Tell him to shut the fuck up and go back to playing Warlock World or whatever it is that theses assholes play.
These not theses … sheesh …
In the Rust Capital of America this scientist dufus dude got rust in his brain.
Andrew, you moron. Proving once again that education and intelligence are not the same thing. D.A.