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As #ExtremeHeat Bakes US, 160+ #Global Groups Demand 'Real' #ClimateAction

Reject #FalseSolutions, such as #NaturalGas, #MegaDams, #geoengineering, #bioenergy, forest offsets, #CarbonTrading schemes, #NuclearEnergy, biodiversity credits, and #CarbonCapture and storage.

Jessica Corbett
Jun 23, 2025

Excerpt: " 'While #governments and #corporations push us deeper into #ClimateChaos, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'

"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'

" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'

"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'

"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of #IndigenousPeoples, safeguarding #forests and #biodiversity, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing #FoodSecurity and #sovereignty, implementing the #RightsOfNature, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "

Read more:
commondreams.org/news/climate-

Common Dreams · As Extreme Heat Bakes US, 160+ Global Groups Demand 'Real' Climate Action | Common DreamsAhead of COP30 in Brazil, over 160 groups from 45 countries issued a collective call for urgent action to combat the climate emergency and keep global warming below 1.5ºC.

Just as there's no planet B, there's no planet β.

There's simply no representative testing ground for geoengineering against climate crisis which has any hope of accurately representing the results as they would affect life on earth.

Neither planet wide or over any meaningful period of time.

Any kind of atmospheric manipulation or similar is a stab in the dark with the entire planet at stake.

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The true great derangement of our time—across cultural production, public policymaking, and every other domain—is the denialism that acknowledges the changing climate but seeks resolution through the very systems that are causing global warming.
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

Los Angeles Review of Books · There Is No Such Thing as Green Capitalism | Los Angeles Review of BooksDavid Shipko explores climate denialism in speculative literature and culture.

#TurningRiversSouth

Soviet, errr, human madness.

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In addition to [turning the Pechora to] the Volga, those labouring over river reversal in the 1970s focused on two Siberian rivers—the Ob and Irtysh. They planned the construction of a 1,500-km-long (930-mile) canal using hundreds of [peaceful nuclear explosions]...
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#ClimateChange
#ControlNature
#Geoengineering

BBC article:
The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia's rivers with 'peaceful nuclear explosions'
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BBC · The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia's rivers with 'peaceful nuclear explosions'By Howard Amos

#UK will fund a small geoengineering research to study how Earth’s #climate could be cooled.

The project include small-scale trials to thicken ice sheets with water pumped from underneath and theoretical work on whether a sunshade deployed in space could cool portions of Earth’s surface.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancerBy Raymond Pierrehumbert

Apropos the UK's ARIA doing crazy funding here's a link to a paper I'm a co-author on (soon to be accepted I think) where we argue against polar #geoengineering in rather strong terms.

TL;DR:
"We evaluate five highly-publicized polar 'geoengineering' proposals and point to significant issues and risks relating to technological availability, logistical feasibility, cost, predictable adverse consequences, environmental damage, scalability (in time and space), governance, and ethics. According to our assessment, no current geoengineering idea passes an objective and comprehensive test regarding its use in the coming decades. Rather, many of the proposed ideas are environmentally dangerous. Given their feasibility challenges and risks of negative consequences, these ideas should not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

researchgate.net/publication/3

"New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice. But should we use them?" by @Grist - An experiment in the Arctic pumps seawater up to thicken the top of the ice layer in winter, which then naturally promotes twice the additional thickness from the bottom of the ice as well. So far it shows areas treated this way have sea ice last longer into the summer. They're studying to understand environmental side effects/impacts. grist.org/climate/new-technolo #ClimateChange #geoengineering #science

Grist · Global warming is melting Arctic sea ice. Can science refreeze it?By Matilda Hay