Posted on 02/15/2015 9:40:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
San José (United States) (AFP) - US scientists and legal experts are calling for a strong, international authority to regulate any man-made interventions meant to combat global warming, amid fears that the technology could be harmful to the environment.
The field known as geoengineering is not currently regulated by any institution or treaty, Edward Parson, professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles, explained Saturday.
"If some nations decide this year to embark on a crude untested experimental attempt to do it, we cannot prevent it," Parsons said in San Jose, California at the American Society for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) annual meeting.
The lawyer called for creation of an international institution with authority to make decisions related to geoengineering, adding that "some favor a UN body, some favor smaller discussions among great powers or some favor a transnational NGO."
Geoengineering, which covers an array of climate manipulation, includes everything from reflecting sunlight from the Earth's surface to sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
The topic made headlines last week when the US National Academy of Sciences released two reports by a committee of experts calling for more research into geoengineering and warning that the technology, at present, could pose significant risks.
The scientists also emphasized that the technology could be no substitute for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the most sound approach to fighting global warming.
But geoengineering should be explored in depth, in case of need in the future, the committee said.
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I see crap being sprayed in the skies almost everyday.. making clouds? not with strands and filaments trailing,, and the patterns? wow.
God makes clouds and seas. Not man.
Geoengineering? unregulated?
How do they get away with this stuff called ‘science’?
..the technology, at present, could pose significant risks.
CONGRE$$? anyone??
Limited climate change accord likely in Paris: IPCC expert
http://news.yahoo.com/limited-climate-change-accord-likely-paris-ipcc-expert-144347064.html
Brussels (AFP) - Encouraging progress at climate change talks points to the likelihood of an overall accord being reached at the Paris conference in December, but the deal is unlikely to adequately fight global warming, a top IPCC official said Sunday.
UN talks in Geneva ended Friday with a framework pact that scientists said at least identified enough common ground to foster hopes for success in Paris.
It is the first-ever proposal with buy-in from all the world’s nations.
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They have NO idea about what they are doing.
Wanna bet that none of them has sufficient self-awareness or critical thinking skills to realize that the greenie/commie-led attack on fossil fuels and Western freedoms along with the foolhardy and destructive rush towards "renewables" that make no engineering or economic sense, using foodstuffs for fuel, burdensome taxes and regulations, carbon trading and caps designed to enrich the well-connected corrupt classes at the expense of everyone else, are themselves "man-made interventions meant to combat global warming" that need to be severely curtailed?
I disagree. They know EXACTLY what they are doing... it's all about the transfer of wealth and power.
Yet the push to transfer wealth and power continues at full speed.
Drudge headline: 100 MILLION FACE BITTER COLD CHILL MAP
Maybe the “scientists” can start by building a fire to affect climate change.
The warmunists are an earth worshipping cult who truly believe man is killing the environment.
They are the ivory tower saviors of the Erf.
Be very afraid of their insanity.
Quite a few SciFi disaster movies start this way.
These idiots will really f*ck things up.
Don’t give it to them. They don’t know what they are doing. And I speak as a scientist when I say that.
Where do they store the stuff?
That's the long term goal. Short term goal of the "scientists" is to fatten up their funding stream.
Geoengineering has been going on going for some time now. The pace has picked up since the turn of the century with massive wind farms, solar arrays, green belting and so forth. Basically any change from what is naturally occurring to something different intended or not is a form of geoengineering. These people are asking for domination over what they consider lesser people through force of law to gather unto themselves wealth and power.
...Professor of Environmental Law?
Anyone care to bet he has connections to CARB?
Headquarters of the CA EnviroNazis
These people are deranged with this climate control crap. They are statists, so they think they can control everything.
Generally, in a scientific experiment you need an experimental subject, which is what you work on, and a control, which you leave alone. In this case, we have only the experimental subject, and we happen to be living in it.
NO!!!
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