Modified salt crystals were secretly launched into the
atmosphere above San Francisco from the deck of a decommissioned
aircraft carrier to “fight climate change” by deflecting the sun’s rays away from the earth.
The public was neither consulted nor informed about the high-risk experiment and plans to block the sun with substances including aerosols and crystals.
The experiment in California comes weeks after Tennessee passed a bill
seeking to ban the spraying of chemicals into the atmosphere and outlaw
the government weather manipulation technique known as “geoengineering.“
Scientific American report:
The move led by researchers at the University of Washington has renewed
questions about how to effectively and ethically study promising
climate technologies that could also harm communities and ecosystems in
unexpected ways.
The experiment is spraying microscopic salt particles into the air,
and the secrecy surrounding its timing caught even some experts off
guard.
“Since this experiment was kept under wraps until the test
started, we are eager to see how public engagement is being planned and
who will be involved,” said Shuchi Talati, the executive director
of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, a
nonprofit that seeks to include developing countries in decisions about
solar modification, also known as geoengineering.
“While it complies with all current regulatory requirements, there
is a clear need to reexamine what a strong regulatory framework must
look like in a world where [solar radiation modification]
experimentation is happening,” she added.
The Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement, or CAARE,
project is using specially built sprayers to shoot trillions of sea salt
particles into the sky in an effort to increase the density — and
reflective capacity — of marine clouds.
The experiment is taking place, when conditions permit, atop the USS
Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda, California, and will run
through the end of May, according to a weather modification form the
team filed with federal regulators.
It follows the termination of a Harvard University experiment
last month that planned to inject reflective aerosols into the
stratosphere near Sweden before it was canceled after encountering
opposition from Indigenous groups.
Solar radiation modification is controversial because widespread use
of technologies like marine cloud brightening could alter weather
patterns in unclear ways and potentially limit the productivity of
fisheries and farms. It also wouldn’t address the main cause of climate
change — the use of Fossil Fuels (Renewable Energy) — and could lead to a catastrophic
spike in global temperatures if major geoengineering activities were
discontinued before greenhouse gases decrease to manageable levels.
The University of Washington and SilverLining, a geoengineering
research advocacy group involved in the CAARE project, declined
interview requests. The mayor of Alameda, where the experiment is being
conducted, didn’t respond to emailed questions about the project.
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