The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report on Friday about a relatively new technology called solar radiation modification that could be used in the fight against climate change.
According to the report, SRM is a form of “geoengineering” that “offers the possibility of cooling the planet significantly on a timescale of a few years.” The University of Oxford defines “geoengineering” as “the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change.”
The report is titled “Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance Framework Related to Solar Radiation Modification.” Congress directed OSTP to “provide a research plan for solar and other rapid climate interventions.”
The document focuses on “atmospheric-based approaches to solar radiation modification (SRM), specifically stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB),” and mentions a technique called “cirrus cloud thinning (CCT).”
In an article about this report, Politico noted:
There are risks associated with each form of solar radiation modification, the report said, that can affect human health, biodiversity and geopolitics. That’s because modifying sunlight could alter global weather patterns, disrupt food supplies and lead to abrupt warming if the practice was widely deployed and then halted. It also wouldn’t address air pollution from fossil fuels or ocean acidification, a major threat to coral reefs’ ecosystems driven by the overabundance of carbon in the air and seas.
[T]he White House emphasized that it was important to compare those uncertainties with the present dangers associated with a hotter planet.
A White House statement about the report stressed that it “does not signify any change in policy or activity by the Biden-Harris Administration, which remains focused on reducing emissions, increasing resilience, advancing environmental justice, and achieving true energy security.” The statement added that there are “no plans underway to establish a comprehensive research program focused on solar radiation modification.”
Frankly, these words offer little solace coming from a White House that has repeatedly overreached its authority. Considering the mess the Biden administration has made of everything from the economy to U.S. foreign policy, can they really be trusted with implementing such an untested and potentially dangerous technology?
European Union officials weighed in on the topic last week. If possible, their alarm over global warming exceeds even the scaremongering coming from Washington. According to EU officials, “The triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, can exacerbate socio-economic tensions and trigger insecurity, even conflict, within and between states.”
Still, they’re not quite ready to deploy SRM techniques to solve the crisis. Mercifully.
The European Parliament and European Council issued a joint communication last week that said:
Guided by the precautionary principle, the EU will support international efforts to assess comprehensively the risks and uncertainties of climate interventions, including solar radiation modification and promote discussions on a potential international framework for its governance, including research related aspects.
This foolish attempt to manipulate Mother Nature is radical, dangerous and unnecessary. There are a thousand ways these solar radiation modification experiments could go wrong and the masters of the universe will only think of half of them. And sadly, mankind will be left suffering the consequences of their mistakes.
Maybe that’s the point.
A previous version of this article appeared on Power Line.
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Let me see if I understand this right. They want to convert our electric grid to solar, and then block out the sun?
Dangerous stuff!
What if… our scientific community is suffering from an inversion of cause and effect. Svensmark argues that clouds, their expansion and contraction as a percent of the earth’s surface, drives surface warming or cooling. And, because the earth’s atmosphere is really just a cloud chamber, cloud coverage is driven by cosmic ray flux, modulated by the waxing and waning strength of the solar heliosphere.
It seems to me that if the cause and effect relationship is poorly understood by the big brains and they start playing God with solar radiation modification they might just make a complex, somewhat orderly, system and disrupt it enough that our weather becomes… truly chaotic and far less orderly.
I can’t imagine that this would turn out well for the rest of us.
Those clouds are water vapor. The earth’s surface is over 70% water. By far, the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapor. No matter what they say or do, they cannot control evaporation. Liberal hubris knows no bounds.
Since the goal has never been about doing anything, more than grabbing power, political power, who wouldn’t expect such nonsense?
After all, overall society has swallowed some pretty large bait in the past, only to find out how naive and trusting too many of us can be.
When you dumb down society, to the point that everyone can only wear flip-flops, because they forgot, or never learned to tie shoe laces, this is what society will accept, until someone changes something.
Please come soon, Jesus.