It feels notable how analogous this is to geoengineering, which is similarly offered up not as part of mitigation strategies, but rather as the magical, ultra-powerful cavalry to make up for the inevitable and total failure of mitigation efforts

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In den USA ist es schon so weit Der Regierung wird vorgeworfen den Sturm „Helene“ über Geoengineering erzeugt zu haben, um den Lithiumabbau zu fördern. Wann hören wir solche Vorwürfe zur Energiewende? Erstaunlich, was Anhängern fossiler Brennstoffe so einfällt. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

White House blasts false claims about Hurricane Helene and relief aid

Statement comes as president urges Congress to pass disaster-relief package as costs soar amid devastation

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Sir, what "geoengineering" is going to reduce the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere? There are real, laws of physics level constraints here, and we *know* the answers to the problems, we just do not have a political system that lets us do it.

1) I’m not in geoengineering, but I am in water engineering, and I can tell you we’re making strides on wastewater reuse and have gone a long way towards solving water scarcity. It’s not wizardry. 2) I’m not a kumbaya guy, and I hate the West Wing now (liked it then). 1/2

I have two thoughts on this: 1. Via geoengineering, I hope some of our fuckedness can be unfucked even if we pass tipping points. And more philosophically: 2. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

But yeah, to respond directly, probably not before we hit a tipping point on climate, at least not one that won’t require adaptation/migration and geoengineering we haven’t invented yet to blunt. If the question you’re posing is “is this all really, really fucking bad” the answer is “yes.”

I'd nearly forgotten that Tennessee recently took actual legislative action to ban "chemtrails," the GOP is so fully ideologically captured by the Art Bell types that "Democrats are geoengineering hurricanes to do red state genocide" will be in the party platform by 2026

this makes me double cringe bc I research solar geoengineering which is not weather control but some of which can easily lend itself to those conspiracies and stuff like this is going to make the work much more difficult to communicate about