Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere - Scientific American

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Scientific American | CORBIN HIAR & E&E NEWS | APRIL 4, 2024

CLIMATEWIRE | The nation's first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay.

The experiment, which organizers didn't widely announce to avoid public backlash, marks the acceleration of a contentious field of research known as solar radiation modification. The concept involves shooting substances such as aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

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...more
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What else is "under wraps" to "avoid public backlash" ??

[speak easy]

1. The most effective way to geoengineer (so far)

is to salt oceans with rust.

[progressoid]

2. Aw shit. Here come the conspiracy nutz.

We're going to get explanations about this from people that don't understand what a rainbow is.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Silly scientists. All it takes is a few big mirrors hanging over the equator, pointed at the moon.

[Cheezoholic]

4. The most surefire way is

to wipe out 7/8ths of us in a day. Big 'ol piece of nickle and iron going into the ocean at 50 or 60k mph would be preferred. Super virus would leave it way to stinky. Nuclear war would be similar to the big metal ball but the radiation, nah don't want that hanging around making 3 headed skunks and radioactive brussel sprouts for 10k years. I've always liked the big metal ball idea. Plus, the planets plenty used to it. Kind of like a dog shaking itchy things off its back.

[Think. Again.]

5. So were gonna fix the problem we caused from putting particulates into the atmosphere...

...by putting different particulates into the atmosphere?

Okay then.

[NNadir]

6. The most effective way to address climate change is to stop using fossil fuels. We have here, however...

...fossil fuel salespeople working to rebrand fossil fuels as "hydrogen."

In general, fossil fuel sales people propose all kinds of absurd and useless "fixes" for fossil fuels, be they rebranding them as "hydrogen," or "geoengineering," or "sequestration," none of which will work.

What they are here and elsewhere to do is to sell and excuse fossil fuels.

Another consistent thing that fossil fuel sales people and their bots do is to oppose the only realistic alternative to fossil fuels, nuclear energy.

They are consistent in advertising diversions to their real goal, which is to push fossil fuels.