Who could consider themselves qualified to attempt to interfere with the sun’s rays? The African group of countries have an answer: no-one. Overreaction to some slight warming of the globe in the current era is the problem they should be looking at. History tells us such phases come and go, in the long term.
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Governments have failed to agree on how the United Nations should regulate controversial solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which aim to lessen the effects of climate change by dimming the sunlight reaching Earth, says Climate Home.
At the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi this week, some governments led by the African Group of countries wanted to ban SRM, while others led by Switzerland had pushed to set up an expert panel to research the nascent approach.
As countries were unable to reach consensus at talks on Wednesday, the status quo will continue. SRM is currently legal in most nations.
A start-up called Make Sunsets has been sending sulphur balloons into the sky in the US and Mexico since late 2022 and attempting to sell the claimed climate benefits. On Wednesday, the UK government announced a five-year research programme on delivering “risk-risk analyses” of SRM techniques.
Switzerland had submitted a proposal to the UNEA to set up the first UN expert group to “examine risks and opportunities” of SRM. The panel would have been made up of specialists appointed by governments and representatives of international scientific bodies.
A Swiss government spokesperson told Climate Home that Switzerland is “committed to ensuring that states are informed about these technologies, in particular about possible risks and cross-border effects”.
African nations, on the other hand, were opposed to anything that enables SRM.
In a letter to the chair of the talks, seen by Climate Home, the African Group chair, Alick Muvundika, proposed a global governance mechanism to prevent the use of SRM (or “non-use” in UN parlance), arguing that the risks to the environment are too great and that the option of SRM undermines “real climate solutions”.
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Indeed, The African group of countries have THE answer: no-one.
That nations are even contemplating geoengineering is frightening enough.
There’s a funding trough to be plundered.
In medicine, the first rule is “Do no harm”. The only geoengineering which can guarantee it is no geoengineering.
Probably a waste of time anyway, even if it was thought to be needed…
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Emergency atmospheric geoengineering wouldn’t save the oceans
Oceans, especially the deep oceans, absorb and lose heat more slowly than the atmosphere, so an intervention that cools the air would not be able to cool the deep ocean on the same timescale, the authors found.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-emergency-atmospheric-geoengineering-wouldnt-oceans.html
In medicine, the first rule is “Do no harm”.
Lock downs, Vaccine Mandates, shutting down economies, clearly medicine has abandoned that rule. Now the Pharmaceutical, Military, Industrial, Medical complexes and World Elites, gain power and money and only pretend about the “Do no harm”.
Many doctors still use the rule “Do no harm”, but many are employed in places where them must follow guidelines or lose their positions and guidelines promote COVID Vaccinations when the harms outweigh the benefits.
Geoengineering is mostly intended to reduce the energy the climate system gets from the sun. The sun powers the climate system, the sun grows our crops, the sun powers evaporation and precipitation. People in political positions would be dictating what should be done to control a complicated system that they clearly do not even understand. What could go wrong? It is much worse than right, there is zero chance that anything could go right. Less sun would result in less energy growing crops, even less energy powering their Wind and Solar scams?
Every civilisation has to collapse eventually. I was hopeful of another century or two but so-be-it.
Aye, …. with a sigh, …… but we only live once. Trouble is : we are fed the nonsense of ” you CAN make a difference” and of course the IDIOTS seem to manage, –> DOWNHILL.
So why can’t WE make a difference ? Jaw jaw jaw, or Waw waw waw ? But walking away in the opposite direction ( leaving the barking dogs) to get a job done doesn’t help: our society “doesn’t allow you to do that” The Dogs just follow: Time to stop feeding them. Maybe they suffer something akin to excess rabbit populations: A Lead (Pb) Deficiency ?
Remember the African nations are against it because they want the $Billions to cope with the warming.
Ha ha ha! - you can’t say that ? 😉
Africans are nae sae daft efter a’ . Knew many from FE / Higher Ed. Smart enough where it matters.