{"id":70051,"date":"2017-03-30T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70051"},"modified":"2017-03-30T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:02:30","slug":"outrageously-fake-news-geoengineers-pretend-to-conduct-first-geoengineering-study-as-though-chemtrails-containing-aluminum-oxide-havent-been-sprayed-worldwide-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70051","title":{"rendered":"<b>OUTRAGEOUSLY FAKE NEWS:<\/b> Geoengineers pretend to conduct first geoengineering study as though chemtrails containing aluminum oxide haven&#8217;t been sprayed worldwide for decades!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hide-on-mobile\">\n<header class=\"content__head tonal__head tonal__head--tone-news \">\n<div class=\"content__header tonal__header\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column u-cf\">\n<h1 class=\"content__headline\">US scientists launch world&#8217;s biggest solar geoengineering study<!--more--><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<h3>Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth\u2019s upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech-fix for climate change<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__main tonal__main tonal__main--tone-news\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column content__main-column--article js-content-main-column \">\n<div class=\"u-responsive-ratio\"><picture><source srcset=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4bf0aa07d4b7a6b1006dabf2d6e399e67f4c1510\/0_0_4928_2957\/master\/4928.jpg?w=620&amp;q=20&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=af623a9e932689b2c12c4db6b77431cc 1240w\" 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sizes=\"465px\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4bf0aa07d4b7a6b1006dabf2d6e399e67f4c1510\/0_0_4928_2957\/master\/4928.jpg?w=465&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=61e34f1c23ad91df737fa51d522fb52a 465w\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"465px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img\" src=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4bf0aa07d4b7a6b1006dabf2d6e399e67f4c1510\/0_0_4928_2957\/master\/4928.jpg?w=300&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b4e11f7a0c44b3fe682020d13e8dd478\" alt=\"The sun from space\" \/> <\/picture><\/div>\n<h5 id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content() \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"4bf0aa07d4b7a6b1006dabf2d6e399e67f4c1510\">Scientists say the planet could be covered with a solar shield for as little as $10bn a year. Photograph: ISS\/Nasa<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>Arthur Neslen<br \/>\nThe Guardian<\/p>\n<p>US scientists are set to send aerosol injections 20km up into the earth\u2019s stratosphere in the world\u2019s biggest solar geoengineering programme to date, to study the potential of a future tech-fix for global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The $20m (\u00a316m) Harvard University project will launch within weeks and aims to establish whether the technology can safely simulate the atmospheric cooling effects of a volcanic eruption, if a last ditch bid to halt climate change is one day needed.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists hope to complete two small-scale dispersals of first water and then calcium carbonate particles by 2022. Future tests could involve seeding the sky with aluminium oxide \u2013 or even diamonds.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-2 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item \"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first or the only university study,\u201d said Gernot Wagner, the project\u2019s co-founder, \u201cbut it is most certainly the largest, and the most comprehensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janos Pasztor, Ban Ki-moon\u2019s assistant climate chief at the UN who now leads <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/news\/announcements\/411\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a <\/a><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/news\/announcements\/411\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">geoengineering governance initiative<\/a>, said that the Harvard scientists would only disperse minimal amounts of compounds in their tests, under strict university controls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real issue here is something much more challenging,\u201d he said \u201cWhat does moving experimentation from the lab into the atmosphere mean for the overall path towards eventual deployment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/geoengineering\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Geoengineering<\/a> advocates stress that any attempt at a solar tech fix is years away and should be viewed as a compliment to \u2013 not a substitute for \u2013 aggressive emissions reductions action.<\/p>\n<p>But the Harvard team, in a <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">promotional video<\/a> for the project, suggest a redirection of one percent of current climate mitigation funds to geoengineering research, and argue that the planet could be covered with a solar shield for as little as $10bn a year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-2 | 2\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item \"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some senior UN climate scientists view such developments <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/aug\/03\/stop-burning-fossil-fuels-now-no-co2-technofix-climate-change-oceans\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">with alarm<\/a>, fearing a cash drain from proven mitigation technologies such as wind and solar energy, to ones carrying the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2015\/may\/15\/geoengineering-climate-change-greenhouse-gases\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">potential for unintended disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Trenberth, a lead author for the UN\u2019s intergovernmental panel on climate change, said that despair at sluggish climate action, and the rise of Donald Trump were feeding the current tech trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut solar geoengineering is not the answer,\u201d he said. \u201cCutting incoming solar radiation affects the weather and hydrological cycle. It promotes drought. It destabilizes things and could cause wars. The side effects are many and our models are just not good enough to predict the outcomes\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Natural alterations to the earth\u2019s radiation balance can be short-lasting, but terrifying. A 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption lowered global temperatures by 0.5C, while the Mount Tambora eruption in 1815 triggered Europe\u2019s \u2018year without a summer\u2019, bringing crop failure, famine and disease.<\/p>\n<p>A Met Office study in 2013 said that the dispersal of fine particles in the stratosphere could <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2013\/04\/02\/geoengineering-could-cause-drought-in-sahel\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">precipitate a calamitous drought<\/a> across North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Keutsch, the Harvard atmospheric sciences professor leading the experiment, said that the deployment of a solar geoengineering system was \u201ca terrifying prospect\u201d that he hoped would never have to be considered. \u201cAt the same time, we should never choose ignorance over knowledge in a situation like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put heat into the stratosphere, it may change how much water gets transported from the troposphere to the stratosphere, and the question is how much are you [creating] a domino effect with all kinds of consequences? What we can do to quantify this is to start with lab studies and try to understand the relevant properties of these aerosols.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ethz.ch\/en\/news-and-events\/eth-news\/news\/2015\/01\/geoengineering-going-outdoors.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Stratospheric controlled perturbation experiments<\/a> (SCoPEX) are seen as \u201ccritical\u201d to this process and the first is planned to spray water molecules into the stratosphere to create a 1km long and 100m wide icy plume, which can be studied by a manoeuvrable flight balloon.<\/p>\n<p>If lab tests are positive, the experiment would then be replicated with a limestone compound which the researchers believe will neither absorb solar or terrestrial radiation, nor deplete the ozone layer.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates and other foundations are substantially funding the project, and aerospace companies are thought to be taking a business interest in the technology\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n<p>The programmme\u2019s launch will follow a major conference involving more than 100 scientists, which begins in Washington DC today.<\/p>\n<p>Solar geoengineering\u2019s journey from the fringes of climate science to its mainstream will be sealed at a prestigious <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.org\/programs.aspx?id=17348\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Gordon research conference<\/a> in July, featuring senior figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Oxford University.<\/p>\n<p>Pasztor says that most scientific observers now see the window to a 1.5C warmed world as \u201cpractically gone\u201d and notes that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will continue rising for many decades after the planet has reached a \u2018net zero emissions\u2019 point planned for mid-late century.<\/p>\n<p>But critics of solar radiation management approach this as a call to redouble mitigation efforts and guard against the elevation of a questionable Plan B.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is appropriate that we spend money on solar geoengineering research,\u201d said Kevin Anderson, the deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. \u201cBut we also have to aim for 2C with climate mitigation and act as though geoengineering doesn\u2019t work, because it probably won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/24\/us-scientists-launch-worlds-biggest-solar-geoengineering-study\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/24\/us-scientists-launch-worlds-biggest-solar-geoengineering-study<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US scientists launch world&#8217;s biggest solar geoengineering study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}