Posted on 04/20/2023 6:29:05 AM PDT by grundle
Several environmentalists last year presented Africa’s leading climate negotiators with a bold idea: A technology called solar geoengineering could protect their countries from the worst effects of climate change, they said. While insisting they were impartial, representatives from the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative said that these technologies, which claim to be able to re-engineer the climate itself, either by dimming the sun’s rays or reflecting sunlight away from the earth, could quickly and cheaply turn the tide of dangerously rising temperatures — and that poor countries might have the most to gain.
It wasn’t the first time Westerners have tried to persuade Africans that solar engineering projects may be in our best interest. And it won’t be the last. In May, another international nonprofit, the Climate Overshoot Commission, headquartered in Paris, is hosting an event in Nairobi to help drum up support for research on solar geoengineering and other related technologies it says could be helpful in reducing risks when the world exceeds its global warming targets.
As a climate expert, I consider these environmental manipulation techniques extremely risky. And as an African climate expert, I strongly object to the idea that Africa should be turned into a testing ground for their use. Even if solar geoengineering can help deflect heat and improve weather conditions on the ground — a prospect that is unproven on any relevant scale — it’s not a long-term solution to climate change. It sends a message to the world that we can carry on over-consuming and polluting because we will be able to engineer our way out of the problem.
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If your continent is Antarctica it might be.
Non-productive, nattering, narcissistic assholes.
These fools will have us freezing in the dark if we let them have their way.
And starving. This Net Zero nonsense will lead to massive food shortages that will make the Holodomor look like a cakewalk.
WHat a bunch of climat malarky.
Bull stitch of the highest order.
NOwonder the Aficans are telling them to go pound sand.....THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE. Why? BECAUSE THE CLIMATE IS ALWAYS CHANGING.
Ask the Dutch, who have been fighting sea level rises for hundreds of years. Ask the Libyans who solved the dryness of their desert without these climate change idiots, until Obama came along and destroyed it, he abjured their success
because Obama wanted panic over the climate issues....which are normal issues..
NOw the whole world has to panic and bring about the end of capitalism and free economy to fight climate change.
Its time to cast out this wickety-doo cult.Just like the Africans are doing.
Good idea. Let's put all these a^^h*les at the South Pole with just a solar panel, some rainbow flags and matches.
Anyone that can see the climate change is Delusional
Or a vaccine killing zone.
They're just makin' it up as they goooo.
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