Few scientists working on ways to geoengineer the atmosphere to cool Earth think it’s anything but a scary idea. Unfortunately, it’s a scary idea that we may soon need to embrace.
Solar radiation management (SRM) attempts to slow the more disastrous aspects of rising global temperatures by adding particles to the upper atmosphere to reflect a small percentage of incoming sunlight, potentially slowing, halting or even reversing warming.
Researchers at Harvard University are about to launch a project to field test the idea and see if it could work for real. It will be on a far smaller scale than necessary to alter planetary temperatures, but it still amounts to the world’s biggest trial of the technique. The plan is to spray chemicals such as calcium carbonate into the stratosphere from a balloon above Arizona.
Those who study geoengineering take great pains to emphasise that this method, potentially quick to deploy and relatively cheap, would not be a permanent fix for global warming. It would be, in effect, a climate tourniquet to temporarily stem the upward march of temperatures and the dangers that flow from that.
What a crock of steaming bull puckey. They've been clandestinely geoengineering Earth's skies for over 20 years. Lying criminals. To read more, click here.