Scientists advise EU to halt solar geoengineering
Scientists advise EU to halt solar geoengineering
Calls for a moratorium on efforts to artificially cool Earth are growing.
There’s ‘insufficient scientific evidence’ backing efforts to artificially cool down the planet, according to the European Commission’s scientific advisers.
Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar geoengineering. That includes controversial technologies used to reflect sunlight back into space, primarily by sending reflective particles into the atmosphere or by brightening clouds.
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I don’t think solar geoengineering is fundamentally flawed so much as the specific technique of releasing aerosols into the atmosphere is flawed. There are multiple ways to potentially cool the Earth that may be cleaner.
Carbon dioxide makes people dumber so we need to get rid of it fast.
Yes, and other methods may also be attempted in parallel. There does not have to be only one effort to solve a complex issue like climate change.
There must be a unified effort to solve a planetwide catastrophe. First all methods must be prototyped in parallel, studied, and synthesised into the best possible plan. Without a map of all plans being followed, disastrous accidents happen, such as getting dependent on fossil fuel because of not funding electrical grids and battery research at the best moment, right before surging need; at the advent of cars. Leaded fuel was even stupider, easier to avoid with ethanol and hardened valve seat rings for piston engines.
We don't go to war without a plan, but into the future we usually go blindly.
