May prove disastrous… But may be required – Can you accept that?

Ivor Williams

Bad news first: there’s more to worry about than your climate, dynamic variations, and power supply this winter. Regardless of whether there is a global warming crisis or just bad weather, projects are being launched, despite environmentalists’ belief that it cannot, in fact, exist. Is one Plan B for our planet.

Recently Glasgow Conference Report from the United Nations Expresses alarm and utmost concern that human activities have caused a warming of about 1.1°C … that the effects have been felt in every region ( and) emphasize the urgency of increasing ambition and action with regard to mitigation, adaptation and financing.’

‘Minimize’ means reduce CO₂ and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. ‘Adaptation’ is a process of reducing vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change. ‘Finance’ includes inter alia exactly how much the countries initially responsible for air pollution pay to poorer people as compensation.

Many have demonstrated that the chances of reducing global emissions within the next ten or twenty years are slim. The UN report does not mention that science has made a different headline: intervention, to provide an immediate and more effective solution by controlling the weather. The idea (now called geoengineering) is not new.

Apart from magical rituals, the first attempts were nothing more than large bonfires to stimulate convective currents and thus cause rain. In the 1940s, cloud seeding began, to achieve similar results, and is still ongoing in some parts of the world. By 1958, they were worried about the global temperature dropping. One scientific paper even backs it up covering the deserts and poles with carbon dust, and wonder if it helps detonate ten ‘clean’ 10 megaton bombs in the Arctic.

Until 1982 a United Nations Conference was warned ‘that the world must deal with a rapidly approaching ice age’. The 1958 proposals were repeated: paint the polar regions black, and maybe even ‘raise water vapor from the oceans with a hydrogen bomb to create a greenhouse effect.’

Luckily for life on earth those extreme experiments didn’t happen. It was not until the late 1990s that growing concern, now about climate warming, led to much more serious ideas.

21st century geoengineering has put forward some basic proposals that will directly affect our weather: manage solar radiation by spraying particles in the high atmosphere to reduce solar radiation. God; sea ​​clouds lighten to reflect more sunlight; and the cirrus thinned out, to allow more heat to escape back into space.

Other, possibly safer engineering projects focus on extracting atmospheric CO₂ ground or capture carbon released from coal-fired power plants.

Scientists say the argument for some form of geoengineering is convincing: dimming the sun’s radiation a bit, which would slow or even prevent temperatures from rising. The effect will be almost immediate, as demonstrated by historic volcanic eruptions, especially Tambora in 1816, later known as the year without a summer.

But danger lurks in two directions: such a project could be used as an excuse to relax the 2030/40/50 zero-carbon plan, and the detailed effects of the control effort. weather control in the world It would be difficult, if not impossible, to predict.

Who would be to blame if, despite a welcome pause in global temperatures, Brazil hasn’t had rain for six months, or the Middle East’s climate becomes more like Norway?

The case for some types of direct action may ultimately be impossible to resist. The Glasgow deal will not stop emissions from rising. If global temperatures continue to rise, then climate hysteria will lead to calls for more aggressive solutions than heat pumps or electric cars.

Playing God with our atmosphere can avoid the worst effects of any change in climate. But it could spell disaster greater than anything seen since the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.

Current research has not shown any way to limit the effects of solar dimming, nor can such an experiment be shut down quickly if the results show danger. Conclusion of a November 2014 scientific research remains unquestioned: ‘Plans (geoengineering) to tackle climate change may be harmful to billions of people, but may be necessary for the good of the planet.’

That’s bad news. Good news? Sorry, there aren’t any.