“Almost all geoengineering proposals serve to entrench and benefit fossil fuel interests rather than solve the…
“Almost all geoengineering proposals serve to entrench and benefit fossil fuel interests rather than solve the climate crisis,” the report concludes. “By promoting the development of new fossil fuels and costly fossil infrastructure, by diverting resources away from proven mitigation strategies to costly boondoggles, and by sustaining the myth that meaningful climate action can be safely delayed or narrowly constrained, geoengineering threatens to undermine real solutions at the time when they are most urgently needed.”
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Yes, they perpetuate the problem instead of eliminating it.
We tend to see the temperature as the problem. Ever heard of climate change’s evil twin?
Do you mean earth’s orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000 years, playing a role in natural climate swings?
phys.org – Earth’s orbital changes have influenced climate, life forms for at least 215 million years
Steve MacLellan Nope, ocean acidification, also caused by CO2.
Oceans are now 30% more acidic than they should be.
If our body would to become that much more acidic, we’d either be dead or in an intensive care unit.
Ocean acidification impairs shell making ability of shellfish. It also modifies behavior of many fish species, making them more prone to be eaten and also affects reproduction.
Thanks, I will look at that article.
A. Randomjack Yes, it is destroying corals, which impacts the marine ecosystem, and effects piscine fertility. It also has negative actions on krill and plankton which are key foods for marine life, including baleen whales. The sequestration of manmade CO2 by the world’s bodies of water is not a good thing at all….
grace diemand Plankton (zoo and phito) is the basis of the whole oceanic food web, much like vegetation and insects on land.
85%’ish of the Antarctic krill vanished and what’s left moved to other sectors.
At this moment in time, it is mostly heat that is destroying corals, but acidification plays a part in it.
There are (or were) rumors that 40% of phitoplankton had also vanished, but I never found a scientific study on that topic, but I did not search everywhere.
The oceans are in a really bad shape, I wrote 2 or perhaps 3 articles about it on my French blog.
I have no English blog, there are plenty of those around 🙂
A. Randomjack I saw a fabulous documentary by Jean Michel Cousteau about the decline of corals at the Boston Museum of Science 15 years ago. It was chilling and alarming, to see what carbonic acid does to coral, as well as warming and destruction by COT starfish, and marine anchors. Life came from the oceans and yet humans are killing the oceans due to our role in climate change, plastic pollution, noise and other pollution.
grace diemand 15 years ago, my head wasn’t on Earth. I always liked astrophysics and cosmology and flight sims to.
I had no clue we were in such deep doodoo.
A. Randomjack My college ecology course taught me at age 18 and prompted my concern. 20+ years later, it is still a key issue for me. We only have one Earth. Everything else pales in comparison.