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Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

You didn’t read the article.

They’re calling for more research into geoengineering. They just don’t want governments going off half-cocked with under-researched “solutions” that might make things much worse.

Governments should also allow academics to investigate the possibilities of geoengineering, chiefly in the form of solar radiation management, which involves attempting to reduce the amount of sunlight striking the Earth’s surface, for instance through whitening clouds to be more reflective, or setting up mirrors in space.

What they’re arguing against is the kinds of solutions fossil fuel companies are pushing as a way to allow them to continue polluting. Fuck the scientists? These are the people trying to stop climate change.

“Geoengineering, like direct air capture, is a deeply uncertain techno-solution that fossil fuel executives love to push to take pressure off their core business of selling oil, gas, and coal, which, as more and more people are realizing, is causing rapid and irreversible destruction of our planet’s habitability,” he told the Guardian. “Fossil fuel elites will use geoengineering as an excuse to continue business-as-usual. As a climate scientist, my worst nightmare is continued fossil fuel expansion accompanied by solar geoengineering followed by termination shock. This would be game over for human civilization and much of life on Earth.