#geoengineering

Detailed report on the use of solar geoengineering https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/10/1143804/this-road-map-could-help-us-decide-whether-to-deploy-solar-geoengineering/ #HackerNews #Tech #Geoengineering

#News: From Space mirrors to bombing the Arctic, engineers have come up with strange ideas to meddle with #climate. Experts warn #geoengineering gambles are pure #Greenwashing to delay banning #fossilfuels #ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow 🌍🔥 @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.ukhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/06/five-outlandish-plans-to-remodel-earth-climate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

If we’re going to do geoengineering/SRM the first thing we need to do is have a computer model showing how it would work where scientists agree the benefits outweigh the costs. It seems most people interested in the topic aren’t actually interested in doing that work and skip straight to the part where they pollute the environment with ballons filled with a highly toxic, corrosive pollutant https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/in-2022-a-california-startup-began-floating-sulphur-filled-balloons-into-the-sky-to-dim-the-sun-and-sell-cooling-credits-within-weeks-mexico-had-banned-solar-geoengineering/amp_articleshow/132514514.cms #ClimateCrisis #geoengineering

Update. "Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say," https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/05/satellite-mirror-plans-could-disrupt-sleep-and-ecosystems-worldwide-scientists-say "Presidents of four international scientific societies representing about 2,500 researchers from more than 30 countries are among those who have raised concerns in letters to the US Federal Communications Commission (#FCC)…Altering the light-dark cycle could disrupt biological clocks that regulate sleep and hormone secretion in humans and animals, migration in nocturnal species, seasonal cycles in plants and the rhythms of marine phytoplankton that underpin ocean food webs." #ElonMusk #Geoengineering #SpaceX

Can we geoengineer ourselves out of an El Niño year? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-geoengineer-ourselves-out-of-an-el-nino-year/ #Climate #Science #Geoengineering

#GeoEngineering ? Turns out we barely have a clue about what we're doing. " “Our study shows that marine cloud brightening can be very effective for the US west coast if done now, but it may be ineffective there in the future and could cause heatwaves in Europe.” She said the results should concern policymakers, and prompt them to establish governance structures and transparency guidelines, not just on a global level but regionally." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds

"Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across the EU on efforts to artificially cool Earth through solar #GeoEngineering. There’s “insufficient scientific evidence” to show that solar geoengineering can actually prevent #ClimateChange, says the opinion written by the GCSA." https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317108/solar-geoengineering-european-commission-moratorium Several experiments, including in Mexico and Finland, were met with fierce local opposition.

Dimming the sun to cool the planet? "It isn’t going to happen the way that 99 percent of these papers model." "In short, proponents of SAI still have a lot to prove before we can start dimming the Sun, a controversial alternative to attacking the root cause of global warming: reducing fossil fuel consumption and expediting clean energy development." https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-warn-dim-sun-cool-planet#GeoEngineering

With Europe and the US in the grip of atmospheric blocking events / “heat domes”, I’ve seen renewed interest in geoengineering/SRM. A quick reminder that despite a lot of enthusiasm among laypeople, climate scientists are generally sour on the idea. A very important detail people don’t seem to grasp is that while geoengineering/SRM could help lower the *mean* temperature, it could actually make extreme heatwaves / “heat domes” worse by disrupting the global circulation of air https://news.mit.edu/2020/reflecting-sunlight-cool-planet-storm-0602 #ClimateCrisis #geoengineering

Bill Gates is funding SCoPEx: a plan to block the Sun with calcium carbonate spray. The "goal": cool the planet. The reality: one man with Epstein ties gets to control global climate. Crop failure. Famine. Collapsed immunity. And he profits from the solutions. This is not science. This is power. #geoengineering #billgates #accountability https://newsgroup.site/%d0%b1%d1%96%d0%bb%d0%bb-%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%82%d1%81-%d0%b3%d0%be%d1%82%d1%83%d1%94%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%81%d1%8f-%d0%b2%d1%96%d0%b4%d0%ba%d0%bb%d1%8e%d1%87%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b8-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%86/