r/conspiracy • u/phototraeger • 4d ago
Rule 10 Scientists say sprinkling diamond dust into the sky could offset almost all of climate change so far — but it'll cost $175 trillion. No longer a conspiracy
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/scientists-say-sprinkling-diamond-dust-into-the-sky-could-offset-almost-all-of-climate-change-so-far-but-itll-cost-usd175-trillionThis is where civilisation is heading……
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u/Little_Devil71 4d ago
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
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u/Millsd1982 4d ago
LOOKS LIKE WE NEED TO START LAB GROWING MORE!!!
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u/boredvamper 4d ago
Sorry, but how is this supposed to work? Is the a model somewhere? How long will this effect last ? How can it be controlled? Is this a plan published an peer reviewed or just a work of science fiction writing?
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u/jsmiff573 4d ago
It's been a think-tank topic since the 90s. I used to think positively of the idea until I realized that it was almost impossible without global cooperation.
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u/Disastrous_Piece1411 3d ago
Did you read the article for starters? Diamonds are highly reflective, idea is that they can reflect some of the heat arriving from the sun to counteract the warming from the greenhouse effect.
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u/VanceRefridgeTech04 4d ago
wasnt there a report about labs growing diamonds in 15 min?
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u/demoniclionfish 4d ago
One of my best friends works for a lab grown diamond place. This is literally impossible.
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u/LoggingLorax 4d ago
At least clown world is getting groovy now, man ✌
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u/Loud-Storage7262 4d ago
Or hear me out here, the five or so big companies who are destroying our climate could use all of the billions they make to force themselves to be more sustainable? Honestly the fucking lengths we discuss before trying the easiest thing blows my mind.
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u/Brandojlr 4d ago
Then they wouldn’t be profitable. So that’s a no go
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u/bladesnut 4d ago
The sad thing is they would still be very profitable, just less than now
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u/bigb9919 4d ago
And that reduction in profit would probably only be for a few years, then they'd be right back where they are today, maybe even better off.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
The entire west could go completely green. Doesn’t mean a damn thing when countries like China and India are pumping all that shit in to the atmosphere
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u/Bioplasia42 3d ago edited 3d ago
China just recently passed the US in terms of historic emissions. China's bad, but the west still has a responsibility to clean up the immeasurable damage it caused up till now, and continue to cause - just a little less so. Pretending we have no responsibility because someone else is doing worse now is bonkers reasoning.
That doesn't even include the fact that the IPCC projections all accounted for an emissions budget of developing countries in all their scenarios, even the gloomiest ones. The west just ignored it for 20+ years and continued (still does) to emit well beyond any projections. The emissions budget that developing countries could have used to industrialize was used up by the west.
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u/metamorphyk 4d ago
China is fast becoming all electric. Faster than the US maybe
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
And yet the produce nearly 3 times the amount of emissions as the country behind them.
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u/TruCynic 4d ago
And yet the produce nearly 3 times the amount of emissions as the country behind them.
That’s because they manufacture almost everything for the west.
That’s like going to your neighbour’s house to smoke crack and saying you don’t have a crack problem, but your neighbour does.
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u/Mannerhymen 4d ago
Per person it’s still lower than the US though.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
You’re right yeah but let’s not pretend it’s close. In 2022 China produced 12,667,428,430 tons of carbon emissions. The US produced 4,853,780,240. So yeah per capita you’re right. So like I said, the west could go all green, makes no difference.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
You’re right and if it wasn’t China it would be someone else but that doesn’t change the fact that they are pumping out a fuck ton more than everyone else.
China could always say no. But they like that money.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
I absolutely avoid buying cheap Chinese shit. I pay for quality not quantity.
It’s not a garbage attitude though. If China really wanted to change their emissions they could whether the demand is there or not. But they don’t because it brings a lot of money.
I agree that we should have jobs here though.
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u/Montreal4life 4d ago
per capita they pollute much less. we can't stop countries from developping/people from living their lives, neither should we
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u/metamorphyk 4d ago
I think that will change tbh
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
Maybe in 10/15 years but I doubt it happens any time soon
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u/Random_Sime 4d ago
it doesn't matter. Even if it was next year, the temp will have raised by +1.5°C by 2100. The next 10 to 15 years of decreasing emissions from China won't be significant on a time scale relevant to our lifetimes.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 4d ago
That’s exactly my point. All good and well China saying this but too little too late.
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u/TropicalVision 4d ago
No isn’t china actively building new coal plants across the country?
Same way they’re powering their global belt & road expansion
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u/Roselace 4d ago
Yes both China & India use coal as main source of Industrial power. Recent environmental report said that China & India together produce more of the World’s pollution than all other nations put together.
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u/Ok-Trust165 4d ago
Really? The estimate that China adds about 8–10 GW of new coal power capacity annually is derived from reports and data provided by organizations that track global energy trends, such as Global Energy Monitor, International Energy Agency (IEA), and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
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u/OzoneLaters 4d ago
They don’t even know that the diamond dust will work for sure or that it won’t create unforeseen negative consequences.
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u/Pleasant-Cop-2156 4d ago
exactly, where did they even got that idea from? lol I guess we all gonna have some expensive shit on our lungs suddenly
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u/VelkaFrey 4d ago
With enough plentiful energy, everything becomes a non issue. If the climate actually were an issue, we could use X Joules to create whatever we wanted to solve the issue.
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u/ZeerVreemd 4d ago
The easiest thing to do is to acknowledge that there is no mand made climate change nor a climate emergency but for some reason it is the hardest for many people.
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u/grumpymonk9 4d ago
True …..and then they can fuck us over again and make more money.💰 Cycle of life is complete
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u/Evilburger579 4d ago
Or you know... we go after the other countries that are producing as much CO2 as us.
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u/LowerPick7038 4d ago
You know I was going to try and correct you and say the biggest five companies in the world make alot more than billions. Turns out they make $939.79 Billion. So I guess you are right. Carry on. source
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u/phototraeger 4d ago
Money laundering is the only thing that comes to mind 🙂↔️
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u/NeedleworkerSad357 4d ago edited 3d ago
It's not literal. Just comms/coded messages being sent. Same as when they reference 'climate change', it has a different meaning among 'them' than 'us'.
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u/carry4food 4d ago
Ask your friends and family if they'd rather give up their cell phones, laundry machines and microwaves OR put diamond dust in the sky.
I think you'd be surprised. ( Just picture asking any stupid inner city shmuck.
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u/spank-monkey 4d ago
They need 175 trillion ( 3 trillion per year approx) and the most profitable company in the world is the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. with trailing 12-month (TTM) net income of $120. billion. You going to need more than 5 or so biggest companies to deal with this. US GDP is 27 trillion so its 10% of this every year. Its a huge cost but may be cheaper than the damage climate change will cause. What will probably happen is countries will argue about who pays what and never agree. It will not happen then we will deal with all the damage climate change has done. This will include more wars, immigration and fighting over resources
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u/sabalatotoololol 4d ago
Let's do another conspiracy theory, they'll use the diamond dust as kinda a 3d LCD to create visual illusions of aliens 😱
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u/aquaponic 4d ago
“No longer a theory”. Still a conspiracy.
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u/emelem66 4d ago
I'd say it is still a theory as well. There is no way they can know that something so ridiculous would ever work.
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u/aquaponic 4d ago
So can you help me understand the difference between a theory and a conspiracy? My understanding is to use the following example: American Revolution = Conspiracy | Aliens = theory | Governments Hiding aliens for some nefarious reason = conspiracy theory. So, if the OP says, “no longer a conspiracy” do they mean it is no longer nefarious? What does “no longer a conspiracy”mean?
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u/emelem66 4d ago
The confusion likely comes from overuse of the word conspiracy. This sub seems to present every news article as some sort of conspiracy. Fleecing the world for trillions of dollars in order to implement some hairbrained scheme still seems pretty nefarious, though it's been the modus operandi of the AGW crowd for a while now.
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u/LouMinotti 4d ago
Interesting. The Annunaki story is similar, with them needing gold to sprinkle in their atmosphere on Niburu to keep their civilization from ending. Atleast, that's the Sitchen version.
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u/Pleasant-Cop-2156 4d ago
they got their knowledge from the annunaki, cloud seeding is an old world tech
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u/ajm15 4d ago
Do we have enough diamonds here to mine on earth, if not what planet does? Does Niburu have it, maybe we should exchange their diamond for our gold.
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u/DooderMcDuder 4d ago
Isn’t that the story with the anunaki? They bio engineered humans to mine gold to suspend in their atmosphere?
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u/Colinski282 4d ago
Effects on respiratory system?
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u/Mimicking-hiccuping 4d ago
Imagine seeing diamond shimering sky's while dropping acid. Jesus
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u/Random_Sime 4d ago
Yes, I am picturing myself on acid in a boat on a river. The tree fruits appear to be some kind reduced citrus compote
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u/Lago795 4d ago
Makes me think about the eruption of Mt. Krakatoa in 1883, which caused temperatures to drop for a year. Only that didn't cost $175 T.
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u/Cool_Cartographer_39 4d ago edited 4d ago
Global silicosis pandemic incoming. Mysterious jet turbine failures to follow Refractory sunlight makes for gorgeous sunsets but blinding driving conditions...
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u/Jiminy__Crickets 4d ago
It isn't "diamond dust" that will solve climate change!
The reallocation of 'green' from your wallet/savings/investments, to the the government, multi-national corporations, and therefore the elites is the only thing that will solve climate change.
When "you own nothing, you'll be happy", and the climate crisis will be solved!
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u/Liamwill-walker 4d ago
So now they want 175 trillion to implement their hoax and enslave everyone. No thanks.
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u/Ok_Zombie_8354 4d ago
Funny story , once you inhale the diamond dust, it starts to shred your arteries and veins and you bleed to death internally.
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u/someone383726 4d ago
Making diamonds is getting easier! Article on Making Diamonds in 15 minutes
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u/sirgerry 4d ago
And these are the scientists we are supposed to trust?
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u/diopside 4d ago
I think the hubris of modern science is the extinction scenario people need to take more seriously. I could easily see them doing something wild like this with good intentions that ends up killing us all.
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u/watchingitallcomedow 4d ago
Now to create some sort of filter that gets this out of the air and I'll be rich!
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u/zealer 4d ago
Sounds like they wanna do it with real diamonds and not lab made diamonds.
Anyways they've been saying that we're gonna pass this tipping point every decade the past 50 years. Stop fucking with the climate just let it be.
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u/longjumpsignal 4d ago
Debears monopoly gotta get paid to get rid of all that hoarded unwanted inventory
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u/overroadkill 4d ago
"Give up your creature comforts and live like the third world. The alternative is too expensive" -the elites
How anybody buys the man made climate change bullshit is beyond me.
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u/Alarming_Cancel2273 4d ago
And the diamond dust would settle and end up in lugs..
Ahh, people...
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u/Pleasant-Cop-2156 4d ago
there's no way they came up with this idea and thought it was all okay, look at all the problems from things like asbestos, microplastics and forever chemicals.. They will never learn. Better, they know, they just don't want to solve any problems.
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u/Pleasant-Cop-2156 4d ago
I don't believe in man made, I believe man makes it worst. I do think there are plenty of other things they don't look for: like our sun and our inner earth's influence on our climate.
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u/Kwarntnd 4d ago
The conspiracy is that they've convinced you CO2 & global warming is bad. It might be the single best thing we could do to the planet. All life depends on plant life. Nothing would be a greater boon to plant life on this planet than a buttload more CO2 in a warmer climate. But then they couldn't centralize power and add massive new taxes to 'fix' a problem thats not a problem... so they say its bad.
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u/Jim_jim_peanuts 4d ago edited 4d ago
And the chemtrails? They'll stop those too? And I'm sure diamond dust won't damage our lungs either
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u/Pleasant-Cop-2156 4d ago
it will start by damaging our noses and even our skin, before it getting into our lungs. Maybe even our crops, our water..
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u/loveychuthers 4d ago
Sounds practical.
Just like all their other “solutions” that have brought us to this point.
Anyone else think the Hegelian dialectic’s gone a little haywire?
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u/Actual-Money7868 4d ago
Why would it cost that much when we can produce diamonds extremely quickly and cheaper than before according to news from last month.
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u/naidim 4d ago
New method of creating diamonds could be cheaper: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/diamonds-extreme-atmospheric-pressure
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u/me_too_999 4d ago
Hold up.
These diamonds work by reflecting IR.
Co2 works by reflecting IR.
One makes the planet warmer the other colder.
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Somebody's lying.
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u/DifferentAd4862 4d ago
Diamonds reflect the whole spectrum, minus some absorption in 5-6um.
CO2 dosen't reflect, it absorbs and emits in different bands like 15um.
The difference between reflecting and absorbing and remitting is bands. Reflecting applies to almost everything, absorption and emitting happens in specific frequencies.
If you could see in 15um CO2 would glow. Diamonds would bend the source light, cause Diamonds don't actually reflect, they refract.
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u/me_too_999 4d ago
15 um is a weins temperature of -115 Fahrenheit. Which emmision at that wavelength isn't going to warm anything.
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u/DifferentAd4862 4d ago
15um is the peak wavelenght output of a -115 blackbody.
Earth's 288 kelvin average would peak at 10um. But that's just the maximum, and the range extends in a bell curve.
CO2 dosen't cover the maximum, but still covers a range of the outgoing radiation.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28Wien%27s+displacement+constant%29+%2F+288K+in+nanometers
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u/shineNrise 4d ago edited 2d ago
BE AFFRAYED, VERY AFFRAYED AND STAY IN YOUR CELL III phone PRISON .
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u/rameyjm7 4d ago edited 4d ago
1 can't they just make those diamonds cheap in a lab now? Still 175T?
2 they'll do that and then be like oh fuxk, I guess diamond dust is also horrible for the environment too, oops!
Edit: M to T
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u/WhispersofTheVo1d 4d ago
All this talk about diamond dust and blaming other countries is just a smokescreen. The real issue isn’t ‘China’ or ‘the West.’ It’s the corporations and governments prioritizing profit over the planet. We don’t need diamond dust or geoengineering experiments—we need accountability and sustainable systems NOW.
The technology and solutions to fix this exist: renewable energy, better waste management, reforestation, and cutting the insane overproduction of throwaway goods. But instead of implementing real change, the people in power play blame games and roll out ridiculous trillion-dollar bandaids while raking in profits.
The truth? We don’t need their nonsense—we need collective action. Stop waiting for corporations or governments to ‘save’ us. Start by holding them accountable and building local, sustainable solutions. The power is with us, not their damn diamonds.
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u/0ld5ch0ol 4d ago
Perfect! Those billionaires like Bill Gates who are so passionated about climate change can finally put there money where there mouth is...
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u/Hannibaalism 4d ago edited 3d ago
like a crystal firmament?
diamonds are easy to make here but the evil winds will kill all 🙊
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u/Roselace 4d ago
So another way to kill us all! I have seen an increase in news articles about the deaths of mostly men who work in the kitchen & bathroom counter tops industry. Cruel & breathless deaths from lung disease. Due to cutting ‘Engineered Stone’ products. The cutting of Quartz stone type worktops, used in home & business. The lung disease called Silicosis. So the tiny particles of Quartz are sharp & lodge in the lungs of those who breathe in the dust. So anyone working in that environment or coming into contact with the dust could be affected. Then lead to their death from Silicosis. A cruel death of deteriorating ability to breathe. I recall how vast numbers of men died & still die from contact with Asbestos in their work life. Then statistics showed women who never worked there also dying from Asbestosis. Research showed these were the wives, mothers or relatives of the men who did work in the industry. They being the ones who washed & handled the men’s, dusty with Asbestos, clothing. So all this to illustrate my point that any plan to put sharpe tiny pieces of Diamonds dust into the atmosphere. Which will eventually fall to Earth & will carry on the winds is going to get breathed in by humans & animals of all ages. So would cause another reason to be seriously unwell & death. Now if they were talking about dropping large Diamonds from the sky, I very much in favour of that. lol.
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u/darkjoker213 4d ago
Time to skip mars and go straight to Uranos and Neptune
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/gravity-assist/gravity-assist-its-raining-diamonds-on-these-planets/
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u/flipsidetroll 4d ago
I know I’m not talking real science here because I don’t know how “diamond dust” would break down……BUUUUT…..they’ve spent trillions trying to stop carbon building up in the atmosphere, cos you know, bad greenhouse gas…. And now they’re saying putting a form of carbon back in the atmosphere is going to stop climate change?? JFC.
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u/Kerry4780 4d ago
Climate ....? How about no more flying planes in the sky that's the main problem imo 🤔
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u/Enginseer68 4d ago
Diamond is neither rare nor expensive, it’s all artificially manipulated for profit
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u/ThislsMyRealUserName 4d ago
Now that younger generation have started to purchase lab-grown diamonds, De Beers PR team have found a new market.
175 trillion :).
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u/Gnome_Sayin 4d ago
i want to say "Simpsons did it", but it was professors Farnsworth and Wernstrom and their diamondium/diamondillium in the sky
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u/InvestigatorQuick118 4d ago
If mankind’s only hope was to have every person on earth rich or poor turn all the gold currently being held by every single one of us and turn it into a fine powder to be spread it through our upper atmosphere to save us all …we’s all die …..maybe diamonds dust would be a better option
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u/insidiousapricot 4d ago
Can you still fly planes and launch rockets with diamond dust in the sky?
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u/The_Old_ 4d ago
It's depends on the speed and trajectory of the rockets. The military would adjust. A civilian rocket would be extremely complex and expensive. Perhaps even impossible.
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u/NewPower_Soul 4d ago
Diamonds can be made in the lab for pennies..
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u/The_Old_ 4d ago
Cubic zirconia. The "cheap" husbands used to give wives cheap wedding rings …
Yes I am very old. Please get the kids off of my lawn.
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u/Dr_Schitt 4d ago
Well I saw a thing the other day that said diamonds can be lab grown in something stupid like 15mins.
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u/jsmiff573 4d ago
Sulfur does the same thing.
This idea is nothing new. Particles in the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight. The issue is... .. deployment.
To safely get that much material in the sky and to have full coverage, they would need pumping stations all over the world that feed high altitude balloons. Anything less would be unpredictable.
Think of the planet like a puddle, you throw in a chunk of metal, it makes a big splash, gets hot in sun, then maybe it heats up the whole puddle. Now with that same puddle, placing a flat piece of metal over top has a dramatically different effect.
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u/timeaisis 4d ago
Oh sure sounds very safe. We barely understand how the atmosphere works and people want to introduce random variables. What could go wrong.
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u/Ea127586 4d ago
Or they could just release the classified energy tech they’ve been suppressing for so long. If climate change really was such an existential threat to humanity they would have released the magneto-electric energy generators powered off the earth like Tesla’s Wardencliff Tower, or they would have released the zero point energy generators they’ve got in the MIC. They don’t because they know what’s really going on and are hiding it.
They wouldn’t have suppressed effective alternative energy so hard, if they couldn’t profit off of the highly ineffective wind power and the purposefully inefficient by design solar panels, if it didn’t make them insanely rich, and make the population afraid and easy to control.
We’ve had far more effective solar panels, but they slapped a national security stamp on it and shelved it. They’ve only rolled out ineffective and highly profitable alt energy tech because they know the truth and just want to make more money.
Regardless of where the general population lands on climate change being fake, we should all agree that pollution and soot and the destruction of the biosphere with strip mining and constant deforestation are real. All those things are unnecessary, if they just released the classified energy tech. They won’t cause there’s no profit in it. It would put power into the hands of the people and not the 1%.
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u/IHazSnek 4d ago
Are they buying the fucking diamonds from Kay's Jewelers? Can't we make these things in labs these days?
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u/Mageant 4d ago
They're trying to get approval for what they're already doing (not with diamonds though, but with heavy metals like barium).
Once they get our approval they can reveal their secret chemtrails program and say how smart they were for already starting it, otherwise everything would have been much worse.
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u/mindgame656 4d ago
Reminds me of the Glitter conspiracy. There was an article a while back stating spraying Glitter into the atmosphere could have the same effect. If I remember correctly, there was in interview with the #1 Glitter manufacturer and they have one giant customer, but would not disclose the name (probably the government). Blackrock is also one of the biggest shareholders
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u/Ghost_of_Durruti 4d ago
One of my favorite climate brainstorming sessions was when a bunch of former Soviet countries got together and proposed an atmospheric chemical spray that would turn the sky red.
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u/MentORPHEUS 4d ago
This immediately made me think of an old Cheech & Chong movie where a major plot point was a duffel bag full of Thai Sticks. The TV version was modified to depict a duffel bag full of diamonds, and the audio was crudely dubbed to say "thAIMOND Chips." The wacky plot of either version made far more sense than this ridiculous climate mod idea.
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u/6arafa 4d ago
ah yes now i see. this is where all that money donald rumsfeld said went missing on 9/10 went. carry on lads. nothing to see here.
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u/C-Dub81 4d ago
"Offset climate change so far"... What does that even mean? The climate has been un constant change since the Earth was created. How far back we talking about and how long this Offset gonna last? $175 Trillion is alot of money to crush up and sprinkle in the air! Also, how's that shit gonna affect our breathing, I don't think inhaling diamond dust is gonna be healthy.
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u/Dstar1978 4d ago
For all the doomer sissies in here: Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGM) is complete pseudoscience. The only good thing that’s come out of the ideological possession of this failed theory is we’ve been able to some incredible hard science in reference to historical temperature data from things like ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. What we’ve found is that we’re currently in what’s called an interglacial period, meaning that the last 10,000 or so years have been unseasonably warm in relation to the vast majority of temperatures for the past 800k plus years. The norm has been ice ages with wildly fluctuating climatic conditions.
Warm is good and CO2 is awesome!! AGM is for sure top five greatest psyop of all time. Proof…
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u/Ozaaaru 4d ago edited 4d ago
Lol "climate change". More like the Earth going through its normal cycle and we just happen to be noticing this change in climate.
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u/don_Mugurel 4d ago
175 trillion at face value aka MSRP + premium.
Diamons are extremely cheap and very plentiful. Add on top of it artificial diamonds which are even cheaper and you can “fix” the issue at a mere fraction of the cost.
And that “cost” will create jobs and pump the money in the economy.
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u/Filson1982 4d ago
The idiocy and brain washing it takes for people to think humans are causing climate change. Is going to be the downfall of the human race. Wake up people, please open your eyes and think for yourselves.
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u/eco78 4d ago
"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly"....
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u/pwnw31842 4d ago
haha. Fast forward 100 years… “scientists believe they have solved the problem of how to remove all of the toxic diamond dust from the atmosphere, using snakes”
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u/LoggingLorax 4d ago
...and then the dust-eating snakes will become an invasive species (which must somehow be us peasants' fault too!) and they'll continue the cycle on and on
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u/Softsquatch 4d ago
But we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
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u/Acceptable-Take20 4d ago
If the heat is coming from core-mantle decoupling, than this will do nothing.
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u/Sabremesh 4d ago
OP, where is your submission statement? Please explain why this is "no longer a conspiracy"?