{"id":276456,"date":"2023-08-31T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276456"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:08:14","slug":"dimming-the-sun-the-real-global-warming-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=276456","title":{"rendered":"Dimming The Sun \u2013 The Real Global Warming Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest essay by Ivor Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The world wide web is perfectly designed to spread despair, gloom, despondency and the opinions of all those who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. One product of this unlooked-for attribute is a continuous daily avalanche of global warming doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every instance of drought, gales, hurricanes, forest fires and floods are now apparently the result of global warming. Weather has seemingly been gentle, mild and unchangeable until the last 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite suddenly (in climatic terms) we had that infamous statement from the\u00a0UN Secretary-General<\/a>: \u2018the era of global warming has ended and the era of global boiling has arrived.\u2019 \u2018This newspaper,\u2019 said the pontifical\u00a0Guardian<\/a>\u00a0newspaper, \u2018is right to speak of a climate crisis or emergency.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July really got them going. \u2018Some news outlets [source not given] have reported that daily temperatures have hit a 100,000 year high<\/a>.\u2019 The claims couldn\u2019t get more ridiculous, you might think, but they did. \u2018Scientists<\/a> [source again not given] are predicting that July will likely be the warmest in human civilisation\u2019s history.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These everyday nonsensical postings are seized on by other parts of the media and are world-wide within minutes of them first appearing. \u2018Nonsensical\u2019 because daily (and therefore monthly) temperatures have only been recorded world-wide since about 1880, and even now are dubious because of the huge gaps in the spread of temperature measurements over both land and sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, some scientists have noted that in spite of Emission Reduction Resolutions being signed off at every annual UN Conference of the Parties from 1995 (COP1) to 2023 (COP27), emissions have risen constantly throughout. This is because governments, presidents and dictators have all understood that their people demand not only shelter and food but also a constant supply of electricity. The cheapest and quickest way to provide this is by way of fossil-fuelled power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those scientists have therefore come up with other ways to save the world from what they see as imminent climate doom. What about dimming the sun, for instance? Solar Radiation Management (SRM) includes marine cloud brightening, cirrus cloud thinning, space-based techniques, and stratospheric aerosol scattering. SRM aims to cool the Earth (or stop temperatures rising) by reflecting a small percentage of sunlight back into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A\u00a0UN Environment Programme<\/a>\u00a0report earlier this year said that \u2018measures such as SRM are being raised in scientific and public discourse since global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not on track to meet the 1.5\u00b0C Paris Agreement goal.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0White House<\/a>\u00a0recently asked the US Office of Science and Technology to \u2018provide a research plan for solar and other rapid climate interventions.\u2019 More worryingly the world\u2019s\u00a0richer people<\/a>\u00a0have joined in. George Saros says cloud brightening (to reflect more sunlight) would be his preferred method. Bill Gates has backed a Harvard project to spray calcium carbonate into the high atmosphere. Jeff Bezos \u2018is using Amazon\u2019s supercomputer capabilities to model the effects of plans to inject huge amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 1978, the\u00a0United Nations<\/a>\u00a0published the\u00a0Convention\u00a0on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.<\/em>\u00a0It seems they could already see the possibility of \u2018weather wars\u2019. Could SRM experiments be construed as hostile by nations not involved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some groups argue for sun-dimming others are warning of the dangers. \u2018The risks of research,\u2019 said the June issue of the\u00a0Bulletin of Atomic Scientists<\/a>, \u2018are not always communicated by solar radiation management research advocates \u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idealized climate models, in particular, can erroneously misrepresent stratospheric aerosol injection as technology that can be centrally designed and easily deployed.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many other similar concerns. 440 scientists and other academics have signed an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0calling for \u2018immediate political action \u2026 to prevent the normalization of solar geoengineering as a climate policy option.\u2019 That UNEP report quoted above also said that \u2018SRM is not yet ready for large-scale deployment to cool the Earth.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0commented that \u2018scientists worry that studying how to shade the Earth from some of the sun\u2019s heat is a slippery slope toward deployment of solar radiation management without fully understanding the risks.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the temptation for some groups to save the world is proving too strong to resist. One earlier SRM research project was\u00a0SPICE<\/a>\u00a0(Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) from a group of UK universities and organisations, which ran from 2010-2013. Another\u00a0SCoPEX<\/a>, from Harvard, got as far as a proposed field trial in Sweden in March 2021 but the Swedish government stopped it under pressure from indigenous people and environmental groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here in the UK last September, according to the March 2023\u00a0MIT Technology Review,<\/a>\u00a0\u2018researchers \u2026 launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering field.\u2019 There was a second flight in September from the launch site in Buckinghamshire.\u00a0Andrew Lockley<\/a>, an\u00a0independent researcher<\/a>\u00a0previously affiliated with University College London, led the project.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A US company,\u00a0Make Sunsets,<\/a>\u00a0has so far launched 22 balloons which, it claims, has offset 3,411+ ton-years of warming. Their system is basic, using a balloon, parachute and telemetry equipment very similar to the radio-sonde layout used by meteorologists for many years. The reflective particles are inserted into the balloon before inflation, the balloon expands as it ascends, eventually bursts, and the particles are scattered into the stratosphere, probably more than 60,000 feet above the earth. The parachute brings the instrument pack down gently (if it opens properly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The science and math back us up,\u2019 their website claims, \u2018but we also recognize that there are unknowns and risks associated with stratospheric aerosol injection \u2026 By purchasing a Cooling Credit [\u00a39 or $10], your funds will be used to\u00a0release at least 1 gram of\u00a0our \u201cclouds\u201d into the stratosphere\u00a0on your behalf, offsetting the warming effect of 1 ton of carbon dioxide for 1 year.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimming the sun will mean ever larger experiments conducted on the very air we breathe and the atmosphere we live in. Once initiated they will be impossible to control. Computers have not yet been invented that could accurately forecast the precise results worldwide. Any subsequent extreme weather will be seen as a direct consequence and the nation responsible for hosting the experiments could be sued for hundreds of billions in damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s more to worry about here than the so-called global warming emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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