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How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate?
merbs writes The scientists had whipped themselves into a frenzy. Gathered in a stuffy conference room in the bowels of a hotel in Berlin, scores of respected climate researchers were arguing about a one-page document that had tentatively been christened the "Berlin Declaration." It proposed ground rules for conducting experiments to explore how we might artificially cool the Earth—planet hacking, basically. This is the story of scientists' first major international meeting to tackle geoengineering. It’s most commonly called geoengineering. Think Bond-villain-caliber schemes but with better intentions. It’s a highly controversial field that studies ideas like launching high-flying jets to dust the skies with sulfur in order to block out a small fraction of the solar rays entering the atmosphere, or sending a fleet of drones across the ocean to spray seawater into clouds to make them brighter and thus reflect more sunlight. Those are two of the most discussed proposals for using technology to chill the planet and combat climate change, and each would ostensibly cost a few billion dollars a year—peanuts in the scheme of the global economy. We’re about to see the dawn of the first real-world experiments designed to test ideas like these, but first, the scientists wanted to agree on a code of ethics—how to move forward without alarming the public or breaking any laws.
I call bullshit on "the first". I do not know what is going on in the rest of the world, or even the rest of the United States, but geo-engineering is happening nearly every day in California. Jets are creating clouds on a daily basis. Just search Google image for "Chemtrails" and you can see plenty of evidence, from the clouds themselves, to the interior shots of the planes with all of the tanks and pipes and systems for creating the clouds.
The results are real. Just last week we had tropical storm level winds and snow at less than 1000 feet. That is in Southern California, which is a desert climate.
I believe that they are doing everything that they can to keep the state's agricultural economy from cratering. Too much of the Western United States is dependent on California's agriculture. The drought has the powers that be more worried than they are letting on to.
AGW is not established scientific fact, no matter how many people claim otherwise.
How old are you?
How long have you been looking at contrails?