Climate engineering might be too risky
Horizon – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine
July 3, 2013
Some natural events, like big volcanic eruptions that spit huge amounts of dust and chemicals into the upper atmosphere, could temporarily lower the Earth’s temperature. Trying to replicate that kind of event is a risky business say researchers from the EU-funded IMPLICC project. Here is a striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia’s Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) at an early stage of eruption on 12 June 2009 as seen by the astronauts on board the International Space Station. © NASA
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What strikes me in reading this article is that the people at IMPLICC use language that suggests they believe these solutions are prospective rather than current. There’s also no mention of the recorded toxic particles already having been, and continuing to be, dispensed in our atmosphere. The variable concerns they express seem oblivious to the idea that what has been sytematically and historically introduced would already complicate the ‘predicted’ balance they are hoping to achieve by means ‘unproven’, in their own words.