Climate Geoengineering Scam: We Who Said Follow The Money Can Now Say &Quot;we Told You So”

Let’s hypothesize here. Suppose while the clever – clever boys and girls in white coats with their scientific method of not bothering to think through the possible consequences were busy pumping sulphur into the atmosphere we had a big volcanic eruption like Tambora, Karaktoa or the one on Santorini around 1650 BC that almost wiped out the Minoan civilisation. How big an environmental disaster would that be? Bigger by far, according to predictions that a couple of degrees increase in the average global temperature.

Consider the other big idea on the table at the moment, machines to suck CO2 out of the air. CO2 is food for plants, ever heard of the natural process of photosynthesis by which plant life turns light, carbon dioxide and water into tissue, leaves, stems, fruit and seeds. The more CO2 there is in the air the better the crop yield. Doubling the proportion of CO2 in the air would do more to solve food shortages than Genetically Modified crops ever could (to feed the world we need more CO2 not GM crops). So removing CO2 from the air is potentially harmful.

The problem with experiments like this is they are only testable in real conditions or by computerised mathematical models. We cannot create a real environment under controlled conditions in a laboratory. And as we all know the outcomes of mathematical modelling projects differ widely from what happens in reality.

One final point. Anyone remember that big environmental scare of the 1970s and 80s, acid rainThe acid rain caused by sulphur laden emissions from coal and oil fired power stations destroyed large acreages of forest in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Russia, USA and Canada. The progress is that as the sulphur compounds (mostly sulphur dioxide) fall to earth they are dissolved in water vapour. This condenses as mild sulphuric acid but because the ecosphere is such a delicate system even the changing of mild carbonic acid (normal rain) to mild sulphuric acid can cause disaster. Vegetation is not evolved to deal with the effects of sulphur in the atmosphere.

All that is of no concern to a scientist in pursuit of a research grant or Nobel prize. They aren’t concerned with the damage they may do decades down the line, only with fame, wealth and power NOW! Unfortunately such scientists have the ear of politicians and any hint of vast profits to be made from risk free ventures like picking the pockets of taxpayers will always grab the attention of financiers and investors.

Ironically the people cheer leading for this Brave New World call themselves liberals.

In sum, this coalition of US led expertise and financial clout is a small group of people, the new elite, who sensed there were vast profits to be made  for their institutions and companies in geoengineering and don’t give a gnat’s fart if they trash the planet and murder millions in the process. And as long as there is money, hospitality and awards to be had the science academics will go along, happily producing the answers their paymasters want. Meanwhile we mere mortals have a simple choice. Keep on with the consumerism and contribute to our own enslavement or simply cut back wherever we can on our lifestyle which will have the double effect of being good for the environment and starving governments of the tax revenues needed to fund the crazy projects proposed by people who want to play God.

Watch out. This could be the start of the next generation of climate wars. And this time it might turn into a real shooting war.

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