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Scientists seek international authority on climate geoengineering
Yahoo News ^ | 2/15/15 | Jean-Louis Santini - AFP

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: authority; climate; geoengineering; scientists
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1 posted on 02/15/2015 9:40:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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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’?


2 posted on 02/15/2015 9:42:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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..the technology, at present, could pose significant risks.

CONGRE$$? anyone??


3 posted on 02/15/2015 9:43:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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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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4 posted on 02/15/2015 9:45:23 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

They have NO idea about what they are doing.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 9:45:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: NormsRevenge
US scientists and legal experts are calling for a strong, international authority to regulate any man-made interventions meant to combat global warming

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?

6 posted on 02/15/2015 9:47:40 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Paladin2
They have NO idea about what they are doing.

I disagree. They know EXACTLY what they are doing... it's all about the transfer of wealth and power.

7 posted on 02/15/2015 9:50:58 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
Yes. It becomes more naked as it becomes more and more obvious that there is no man-made global warming. The whole thing is a joke.

Yet the push to transfer wealth and power continues at full speed.

8 posted on 02/15/2015 9:58:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: NormsRevenge

Drudge headline: 100 MILLION FACE BITTER COLD CHILL MAP

Maybe the “scientists” can start by building a fire to affect climate change.


9 posted on 02/15/2015 9:58:40 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: NormsRevenge
How do they get away with this stuff called ‘science’?

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.

10 posted on 02/15/2015 10:12:50 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%---unless you're donating blood.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Quite a few SciFi disaster movies start this way.


11 posted on 02/15/2015 10:23:38 AM PST by rbg81
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To: NormsRevenge

These idiots will really f*ck things up.


12 posted on 02/15/2015 10:29:59 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t give it to them. They don’t know what they are doing. And I speak as a scientist when I say that.


13 posted on 02/15/2015 10:35:24 AM PST by expat2
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To: NormsRevenge
sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Where do they store the stuff?

14 posted on 02/15/2015 10:40:15 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: Rodamala
They know EXACTLY what they are doing... it's all about the transfer of wealth and power.

That's the long term goal. Short term goal of the "scientists" is to fatten up their funding stream.

15 posted on 02/15/2015 10:43:32 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


16 posted on 02/15/2015 10:58:09 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: NormsRevenge

...Professor of Environmental Law?
Anyone care to bet he has connections to CARB?
Headquarters of the CA EnviroNazis


17 posted on 02/15/2015 11:40:39 AM PST by Zathras
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To: NormsRevenge
Why don't they appoint me a frikking geo-engineering resource for MY house...

These people are deranged with this climate control crap. They are statists, so they think they can control everything.

18 posted on 02/15/2015 11:49:19 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


19 posted on 02/15/2015 12:16:26 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: NormsRevenge
Scientists seek international authority on...

NO!!!

20 posted on 02/15/2015 2:51:28 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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