Geoengineering Unlikely to Work

Preface by Cathy Geibel TLB writer/reporter and activist

I love the way the powers that be talk about geoengineering as if it is some theoretical future prospect when they have been engineering our skies and climate for decades with a huge upswing since the Obama reelection in 2012. Any of us with eyes and an awake mind have been watching it happening and are aware of the programming that is occuring from things such as “chemtrails” in car commercials, to photos at airport hotels and “planting” persistent aerosol spray lines in movie revisions.  This photo appears on the cover of a local health magazine.  Can the programming be any more BLATANT?  Make it “normal” so when they come out and admit what they have been doing we won’t object?

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“But the CBD says in a report that geoengineering, while it could possibly help to prevent the world overheating, might endanger global biodiversity and have other unpredictable effects.”  Almost every single line in this article I can pick apart.  We are losing upwards of 200 species a day, and THAT number is increasing.  Unpredictable effects?  How about climate change?  I don’t believe for one single second that the climate is changing from increased levels of CO2.  I believe, if it actually is changing, that geoengineering is the culprit pure and simple.  Let’s look at some facts.  Weather has changed and temperatures are rising in some places.  Aerosol spraying and ionospheric heating has increased by a thousand fold as demonstrated in our skies on a daily basis.  Below is today’s picture of EMF manipulated clouds from my front porch.  Because “natural clouds” are always square right?  Geoengineering is and HAS BEEN happening and the effects are killing us and our planet.

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The oceans are dying and acidification has increased.  To quote this article: “increase the amount of carbon in the oceans—has so far shown disappointing results.”  They have been dumping carbon into our oceans!!  And then they “wonder” WHY the oceans are dying?

I propose that there be a complete moratorium on all forms of geoengineering and then let’s see what we are left with.  How about it David Keith? How about it Mick West? – (Two of the worst geoengineering shills.)  Care to weigh in Dr. David Suzuki?  I agree with your GMO stance but you are so silent on geoengineering.  They are all related.

And as far as the ocean levels rising?  Where?  Can anybody tell me where other than normal local fluctuations? (CG)

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By Alex Kirby

The global watchdog responsible for protecting the world’s wealth of species, the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), has looked at the hopes for reining in climate change through geoengineering. Its bleak conclusion, echoing that reached by many independent scientists, is that the chances are “highly uncertain.”

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“Novel means,” in this context, describes trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in two main ways: removing them from the atmosphere and altering the amount of heat from the sun that reaches the Earth. A third method—trying to increase the amount of carbon in the oceans—has so far shown disappointing results.

Some scientists and policymakers say geoengineering, as these strategies are collectively known, is essential if the world is to meet the goals of the Paris agreement. This is because current attempts to reduce emissions cannot make big enough cuts fast enough to keep global average temperatures from rising more than 2 C above their pre-industrial levels, the agreement’s basic goal.

But the CBD says in a report that geoengineering, while it could possibly help to prevent the world overheating, might endanger global biodiversity and have other unpredictable effects.

Many independent analysts have raised similar concerns. One report doubted that geoengineering could slow sea-level rise. Another said it could not arrest the melting of Arctic ice. A third study found that geoengineering would make things little better and might even make global warming worse.

Transboundary Impacts

The lead author of the CBD geoengineering report is a British scientist, Dr. Phillip Williamson, of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council. He is an associate fellow in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK.

The CBD originally became involved in climate geoengineering in 2008, because member governments were concerned that experiments to fertilize the oceans could pose unknown risks to the environment (they were then unregulated when carried out in international waters).

The CBD’s concern expanded to include other geoengineering techniques, especially atmospheric methods which could have uncertain transboundary impacts. Some scientists argue that “geoengineering” is a hazily-defined term and prefer to speak instead simply of “greenhouse gas removal.”

Dr. Williamson and his colleagues say assessment of the impacts of geoengineering on biodiversity “is not straightforward and is subject to many uncertainties.”

On greenhouse gas removal they warn that removing a given quantity of a greenhouse gas would not fully compensate for an earlier “overshoot” of emissions.

New Risks

In some cases, they say, the cure may be worse than the disease: “The large-scale deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage seems likely to have significant negative impacts on biodiversity through land use change.”

When it comes to attempts to reflect sunlight back out into space or to manage solar radiation, a familiar theme recurs: “There are high levels of uncertainty about the impacts of SRM [solar radiation management] techniques, which could present significant new risks to biodiversity.”

Time and again, it seems, a potential advance is liable to be cancelled by an equally likely reverse: If SRM benefits coral reefs by decreasing temperature-induced bleaching (as it may), in certain conditions “it may also increase, indirectly, the impacts of ocean acidification.” There could even be a risk in some circumstances of loss to the Earth’s protective ozone layer.

Dr. Williamson and his colleagues believe that geoengineering is essential—if it can be made to work—because of the diminishing chances that anything else will.

They write: “It may still be possible that deep and very rapid decarbonization by all countries might allow climate change to be kept within a 2 C limit by emission reduction alone. However, any such window of opportunity is rapidly closing.”

Repeatedly, those two words recur: a suggested technique or development will be “highly uncertain.” Most of the report amounts to a very cautious call for more research, coupled with an implicit acceptance that in the end geoengineering is unlikely to prove capable of contributing much to climate mitigation.

Dr. Williamson told the Climate News Network: “I’m skeptical. That’s not to say bio-energy with carbon capture and storage is impossible, but it seems extremely unlikely to be feasible (for all sorts of reasons)” at the scale needed.

When the CBD member governments meet in December they are expected to call for more research: A safe option in most circumstances, but far from a ringing endorsement of a technology once seen as very promising.

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