Eric Worrall essay
Are you imagining a climate coitry that is so crazy that even California Greens reject you?
Do not communicate
Geoengineering could be of crucial importance in the fight against climate change. But the first scientists have to learn to talk to the public about it
3 Apr 2025
2:00 p.m. and
By Rebekah White
When Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, Mayor of Alameda, California, scroll through the New York Times on a Saturday morning in April 2024, she noticed a story about a controversial experiment. Researchers from the state of Washington studied a machine that looked like a large snow cannon that they hoped one day they could be used to brighten up clouds to reflect on more of the sun's rays. They had sprayed tiny salt particles into the air over the Bay of San Francisco.
First, Ashcraft wondered in which neighboring city the test took place. But when she read, she was shocked to find out that the researchers carried out their experiment there in Alameda.
Ashcraft wrote to her acting city manager, who was also surprised. The story showed that the researchers had kept the test secret to limit protests. “It wasn't just an accident that they forgot to tell the city,” says Ashcraft. “You chose for it.” The city's employees examined concerns about the safety of the test. Although a report came to the conclusion that it was harmless, the Council finally voted to ban him, which is determined by the lack of transparency of the researchers.
…
Publicize The commitment already had fatal consequences for solargeoengineering projects – with effects for the entire field.
…
Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/geoengineering-fight-cima-cange-if-public-can-convinced
Geoengineering is wrong on so many levels. The side effects of many proposed programs are so outrageous that they should never see the light of the day.
Estimation of the global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions
Published: August 08, 2018
Jonathan Proctor, Solomon Hsiang, Jennifer Burney, Marshall Burke & Wolfram Schlenker
Nature (2018)
Solar radiation management is increasingly regarded as an option for the treatment of global temperatures, but the economic effects of the improvement in the improvement of climate changes due to stowing sunlight are largely unknown. Although solar radiation management can increase crop yields by reducing heat stress, the effects of simultaneous changes in the available sunlight have never been empirically estimated. Here we use the volcanic eruptions that inspired modern proposals for solar radiation management as natural experiments to provide the first estimates, according to our knowledge, such as the stratospheric sulfate generated by the outbreaks of El Chichón and Mount Pinatubo. have affected in global diseases. We think that the sunlight-mediated effect of stratospheric sulfate aerosols on the yields for both C4 (corn) and C3 (soy, rice and wheat) is negative. If we apply our earnings model to a solar radiation management scenario based on stratospheric sulfate aerosols, we find that the forecast damage in the middle of the previous year is benefited from equally equally equally equally equally equally equal to the scatter light management. This indicates this Solar radiation management– When stratospheric sulfate are used, similar to those of the volcanic outbreaks that want to imitate –would weaken little from the global agricultural damage through climate change on the network. Our approach could be expanded to examine the effects of solar radiation management on other global systems such as human health or ecosystem function.
Read more (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0417-3
Plants need sunlight. Every alleged benefit of cloud brightness to reflect more sunlight into space would be more than overshadowed by the negative effects of sunlight plants.
We do not need a scientific study to confirm this because it has already happened. In 536 AD a catastrophic volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean caused a widespread harvest failures, since the cloudy raving of the volcano disturbed the weather and plant growth was weakened.
…
The Roman historian Procopius, who was recorded in his report on the war with the Vandals in 536: “This year there was a very scared fear of the sun. Because the sun gave its light out without brightness … and it seemed extraordinary like the sun in solar eclipse, because the bars they had shot were not clear.”[5][6]
In 538 the Roman statesman Cassiodorus described the following one of his subordinates in letters 25:[7]
- The sun rays were weak and they appeared a “bluish” color.
- At noon there were no shadows of people on the ground.
- The heat of the sun was weak.
- The moon was even when it was full, “empty of splendor”
- “A winter without storms, a spring without mildness and a summer without heat”
- Extended frost and unusual drought
- The seasons “seem to be messed up together”
- The sky is described as “mixed with foreign elements”, just like cloudy weather, except longer. It was “stretched over the sky like a dog and prevented the” true colors “of the sun and moon together with the warmth of the sun.
- Frosts during the harvest that harden and grapes.
- The need to use saved foods to keep the situation.
- Subsequent letters (No. 26 and 27) discuss plans to relieve a widespread famine.
…
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/volcanic_winter_of_536
Who wants to deliberately invite the risk of such a catastrophe to their minds? Obviously, I do not believe that the publication of a few kilos of sulfur will lead to a disaster from a drone, but the warning from nature is clear – repeating these experiments on a scale could cause global famine.
There is no evidence of the mild global warming that we experience or justify the invitation of such risks in some way.
There is a good reason why Geoengineer have to hide their work from the public – the public understands the risks and is exhausting against such ruthlessness.
4.6
8
Voices
Article evaluation
Like this:
Load…
Related
Do you discover more from watts?
Subscribe to the latest posts to your e -mail.
