Geoengineering debate shifts to UN environment assembly
Another "conspiracy theory" is revealed and goes mainstream. For years now, people have said there was "chem trails" being laid in the skies, with particular emphasis on the use of Aluminium dioxide, and possible negative health effects. For years people said "No, thats just conspiracy theory", and yet, now, they are at the UN deciding how to best contaminate the atmosphere to protect us from a non existent "global climate change"....nice when you find out it was always there....
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It's outside my area, but my understanding is there's a direct line from CO2 emissions to global warming.
I see the problem being that no one knows the solution. I am not clear that reducing emissions moves the needle, unless it somehow leads to a breakthrough in an energy source and storage vehicle that don't cause global warming. So the idea CO2 causes global warming, so lets reduce CO2 might be simplistic.
I find the notion of denying the reality of the problem to be pure wishful thinking. Science is open to new evidence, and there are breakthrough where we discover happy surprises, like butter being more healthful than margarine. It's wishful thinking to cling to the hope that new evidence will uncover we were wrong and things are exactly as we wished they were.
Using the metaphor of the lake from my other reply, it's the people who deploy the fertilizers causing the algae growth. If they had to pay for the lost value of their neighbors' property, they might find an alternative fertilizer, choose not to fertilize, or find some anti-algae treatment that counteracts the fertilizer that rolls off their property. In all cases, the property owners pays, either by more expensive fertilizer, an unfertilized lawn or garden, or by paying for the anti-algae. It's the owner's choice, whatever maximizes value for her.
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If the anti-algae treatment has unforeseen costs, the person who deployed it has to pay for the value he accidentally destroyed.
This is a question we should be working through right now. I do not have the answer. My inclination is for prudence: "when in doubt, don't" The only lever we have that the evidence points to being reliable is reducing carbon emissions. Maybe there are other low-impact approaches, like increasing the albedo of human structure. I suspect these will be a drop in the bucket, so I don't rule out categorically stronger interventions.
"1) Who are “we”?"
That's the rub. It's like having many land owners around a lake using various fertilizers that contribute to algae growth. Imagine the algae growth impedes various uses of the lake more than others. Somehow, they (the "we") have to figure out exactly how much net destruction of value there is who contributed how much of it. (I say net value b/c there may be some benefits to increased algae.) It's so easy to say this sounds like collectivism, so I'd rather pretend that the lake is big enough that activities on the surround land really don't have an impact. Obviously pretending is wrong b/c reality is what it is regardless of whether its consequences are problematic or helpful.
A few questions come to mind:
1) Who are “we”?
2) Who should determine the specifications for these “more powerful tools”?
3) Who should be in charge of developing these “more powerful tools”?
4) Who should pay for developing these “more powerful tools”?
5) Should such payment be voluntary or coerced?
6) Who, specifically, should determine when, where and how to use these “more powerful tools”?
7) By what criteria should “we” decide the best way to use these “more powerful tools” “very wisely”?
8) Who should pay for any damage caused by these “more powerful tools”?
9) Who should be held responsible if these “more powerful tools” are not used “very wisely”?
Looking forward to your answers.
That ought to ensure nothing ever happens.
If that isn't enough to reflect heat back into space, maybe we need to go primitive and sacrifice important people to Pele (like the UN and their lemmings)....
Then to further discuss this with huge meets and tasty eats, let's next all fly to Singapore, then to Tokyo, then to Geneva, then to Bora Bora and then to even Timbuktu.
Anyone else got a bucket list for places for us all to fly to before the world comes to an end?
Let's hurry now. AOC, the new darling socialist goddess of AC during her oft-traveled jet flight, pontificates that~oh, woe!~we only have 12 years to go!
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