Hi Herb--And yet Elon Musk et al. shoot big rockets through the
stratosphere with an increasing pace, not to mention the sort of
ballistic missiles that North Korea and Houtis are firing, etc. This
fear of the slippery slope hangs on and on while the lowering cost of
renewable energy continues to reverse the original argument.
Mike
On 3/18/24 9:56 AM, H simmens wrote:
Harvard announced this morning the termination of the SCoPEx
atmosphere geoengineering experiment that was first proposed a decade
ago.
It was originally planned for Arizona around 2018 and was then moved
to Sweden in 2021
As many of you know due to local opposition in Sweden by the Sami
people that experiment was canceled several years ago.
The project itself has now been officially canceled.
The explanation given was quite generic as the article details.
There a link to a lengthy final report by the Harvard SCoPEx advisory
committee.
Whether this decade long utter fiasco is a clear signal that even
micro-scale DCC /direct climate cooling /atmospheric research remains
a non-starter or whether future endeavors - if there are any - will be
more successful remains to be seen.
The cancellation of SCoPEx along with the announcement of the release
of reflective particles into the atmosphere by Make Sunsets leading
immediately to the prohibition of such releases in Mexico and Mexican
advocacy against such experimentation at the UNEA in Nairobi earlier
this month demonstrates the risk of attracting immense backlash even
to the most microscopic of baby steps.
Which leads me to once again share my perspective that unless and
until an extremely well funded international NGO with a clear mission
and a superb staff focused on the deployment of DCC in the context of
climate restoration is established the prospects for effective cooling
in time to make a difference will remain negligible.
That’s what the advocacy efforts of any group supportive of the
essential need for DCC must focus on IMHO.
Herb
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089879/harvard-halts-its-long-planned-atmospheric-geoengineering-experiment/
Herb Simmens
Author of /A Climate Vocabulary of the Future/
“A SciencePoem and an Inspiration.” Kim Stanley Robinson
@herbsimmens
HerbSimmens.com
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