I think the Beavis & Butt-head tech bros of Make Sunsets grifting people for “cooling credits” with this dangerous distraction techno-fix are a pretty good argument for the International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering (below) 1/3 #ClimateSkywww.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/c...
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
For... no reason ;)... posting this @npr.org climate story we published 5 months ago about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were inspired by a sci-fi novel and are taking sulfur dioxide, launching balloons+ trying to cool Earth. (Yes there was a call to poison control) www.npr.org/2024/04/21/1...
In a parking lot and on San Francisco Bay, NPR witnesses two different tests for solar geoengineering to tackle climate change. With much science unsettled, experts say regulations aren't keeping up.
Oh, wasting a lot of rare helium and releasing a load of plastic litter for one tiny charge of stratospheric SO2....what a brilliant idea 👍
For more info on why over 500 actual academics (not tech bro grifters) plus numerous global human rights & climate justice groups are calling to "prevent the normalization of solar geoengineering as a climate policy option" check out the Jan 2022 open letter. 2/3 www.solargeoeng.org/non-use-agre...
We call for immediate political action from governments, the United Nations, and other actors to prevent the normalization of solar geoengineering as a climate policy option.