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#Geoengineering

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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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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

Um yeah. Sounds like a great idea! <sarc> And if it doesn't work, we can just vacuum the stuff out of the sky with a giant dustbuster! And yeah -- I totally trust secretive Israeli nuclear scientists to look out for people and the planet!

A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar #Geoengineering
Stardust, an Israeli–US startup, intends to patent its unique aerosol technology for temporarily cooling the planet.

Mar 22, 2025 7:00 AM

"The company is led by CEO and cofounder Yanai Yedvab, a former deputy chief scientist at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, which oversees the country’s clandestine nuclear program."

Read more:
wired.com/story/a-mysterious-s
#WTF #ClimateChange #Geoengineering?

WIRED · A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar GeoengineeringBy Ramin Skibba

Klingt wie Science Fiction: Dank Solar #Geoengineering soll die #Sonne verdunkelt und so die #Erde abgekühlt werden – zumindest in der Theorie. Unternehmen wittern ein Milliardengeschäft, doch die Risiken sind nur schwer abschätzbar. @elena_matera #umwelt riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/sola

RiffReporter · Kolumne: Solar Geoengnieering - Lasst uns doch einfach die Sonne verdunkeln!By Elena Matera