As the world heats up and solar geoengineering shifts from sci-fi to mainstream, tussles between those who say there is an obligation to research it as a potential last-chance solution and those convinced it is the path to catastrophe are only likely to increase.

Critics like Biermann, however, remain unwavering in their opposition.

"It's very risky. It cannot be governed. It's unethical," he said. "And it is one of the biggest dangers in the current climate policies."

"The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what's necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in its spending plan for 2022, which President Joe Biden signed in March.

Some of the techniques, such as spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, are known to have harmful effects on the environment and human health. But scientists and climate leaders who are concerned that humanity will overshoot its emissions targets say research is important to figure out how best to balance these risks against a possibly catastrophic rise in the Earth's temperature"

"Debate on solar geoengineering, however, is haunted by a concern that such technology might be weaponized. This concern stems from longstanding military interest in weather modification technologies, most notably the U.S. use of cloud-seeding during the Vietnam War, which led to adoption of the 1976 Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) restricting hostile use of environmental modification techniques. It also stems from suggestions that governance of nuclear weapons may serve as a useful analog for governance of solar geoengineering"

Same can be said for CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-03 10:04 PM | Reply |

LMAO Tell your President.

He knows. Do you know?

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-03 10:07 PM | Reply |

I know what he told his gullible voters when he ran in 2020. I also see that he doesn't believe a word he told you. It matters not what I know, or think, for that matter.