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That's not how weather works you moron.
More interestingly, if he truly announced that idea, he'd have to be admitting climate change is real in the first place.
He already has? Y'all seem to have forgotten he started as a liberal darling.
Technically, physics does allow a satellite-based method to deal with climate change. Economics, on the other hand, does not. You would need to chuck an unfathomable amount of mass into orbit.
Do you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?
Not really. Case in point - the Moon. It's absolutely massive, like several orders of magnitude larger than any satellite we've ever launched, and when it happens to line up just right between the Earth and the Sun, the umbra is only like 150km wide.
If the sun was a point light source that is accurate. It is not though. You would need an absolutely enormous sat to cast a shadow that would actually affect our weather. Plus you would also need a way to keep it in position as the solar radiation would push it out of position quickly.
Yeah, that's why. He must have some weird misunderstanding to think it's actually doable.
psst.. "climate"... and pray tell, which energy source do you think powers the atmosphere to exhibit weather or climate?
Geothermal? Tidal? Nuclear isotope decay in the core?
Also, the sun.