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Date: June 30, 2023 at 18:43:45
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: EU warns against selfish geoengineering |
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Spraying reflective particles into the atmosphere may cool one area of the
Earth, but studies show it risks heating others even more © Getty Images /
Aleksej Sarifulin
The European Commission has warned the bloc’s lawmakers that
geoengineering – large-scale technological interventions to mitigate
climate change – is fraught with potential “unintended consequences.”
The EU executive body said in a statement released on Wednesday that
deploying technologies like solar radiation modification without
sufficient understanding of the potential dangers – either for Europeans
or populations elsewhere in the world – could be devastating.
“These technologies introduce new risks to people and ecosystems, while
they could also increase power imbalances between nations, spark conflicts
and raises a myriad of ethical, legal, governance and political issues,”
the statement continued, adding that there were no existing rules to
ensure such technologies were deployed safely, and that any serious
efforts must engage the EU and UN.
“Nobody should be conducting experiments alone with our shared planet,” EU
climate policy chief Frans Timmermans told reporters earlier this week,
calling for any proposed experiments to be “discussed in the right forum,
at the highest international level.”
It’s the latest sign of global concern over climate interventions.
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder and Bill Gates attempted to bring his
Harvard geoengineering team and their sun-dimming experiment to the north
of Sweden in 2021, only to meet with ferocious opposition from the
indigenous Saami population and Swedish NGOs, forcing them to return to
the US.
Gates has invested heavily in stratospheric aerosol injection, a type of
geoengineering in which finely powdered rock is released into the
atmosphere to block some of the sun’s rays. Indigenous leaders warned the
experiment would create a “moral hazard,” destroying any incentive to
reach net zero carbon emissions. Meanwhile, the US – and the rest of the
world – would be locked into a geoengineering sequence permanently, as
halting the process would result in a sudden rebound of heating.
Critics have also pointed to studies showing that geoengineering setups
like Gates’s could destabilize areas of the world in which they are not
deployed, worsening the effects of climate change elsewhere by as much as
9%, even as they cooled whichever wealthy country could afford to deploy
them.
Mexico banned geoengineering experiments in January after a startup called
Make Sunsets tried spraying sulfur particles into the air “without any
public engagement or scientific scrutiny,” according to MIT Technology
Review. The university condemned that experiment, but has remained bullish
on geoengineering, recently suggesting it “might be our final and only
option.” The UN released a report in March backing the idea.
The European Commission included its concerns in a document reimagining
what it called “the climate and security nexus.” The bloc’s leaders argued
that climate change posed a greater threat to national security than ever
– not just with biodiversity and resource depletion, but with a surge in
migrant populations, more interactions with disease-carrying animals, and
potentially runaway technology. https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/eu-
warns-against-selfish-geoengineering/
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Date: July 25, 2023 at 02:12:52
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: EU warns against selfish geoengineering |
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Jim Lee of Climateviewer has been exposing these creeps
for years. It is selfish and dangerous and totally
insane.
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Date: July 10, 2023 at 19:05:17
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: EU warns against selfish geoengineering |
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the problem I see is how many countries are doing it?
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Date: July 25, 2023 at 01:11:41
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: EU warns against selfish geoengineering |
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Even in the u.s. it's on a state to state level so there's
that and they have been at it for some time too long.
(I missed your post till now, so I did not
respond...apologies on that and thank you for noticing and
acknowledging the concern.)
~Eve
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