Scientists call for regulation of geoengineering (which is already happening) and ending “legal void that facilitates rogue projects”
New structure for regulation of geoengineering research needed: experts
Homeland Security News Wire | March 15, 2013
The article is mostly written as if geoengineering hasn’t been going on already covertly for many years in the form of massive chemtrails everywhere – except:
In their paper, the authors state that progress on research governance must advance four aims:
Allow low-risk, scientifically valuable research to proceed.
Give scientists guidance on the design of socially acceptable research.
Address legitimate public concerns.
End the current legal void that facilitates rogue projects.
So one of their aims is:
End the current legal void that facilitates rogue projects.
Summary of research paper:
End the Deadlock on Governance of Geoengineering Research (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6125/1278.summary?sid=b1b4d422-49ba-4873-85bb-85ebbad7b007 -> https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1232527)
Edward A. Parson1, David W. Keith, Science Magazine | March 15, 2013
Vol. 339 no. 6125 pp. 1278-1279, DOI: 10.1126/science.1232527
Proposals for research on geoengineering methods to offset greenhouse-gas–driven climate change have attracted controversy (1–6). Multiple methods have been proposed (7), but attention and controversy have centered on methods to reduce incoming sunlight—for example, spreading reflective aerosols in the stratosphere or spraying condensation nuclei to increase low ocean clouds (1, 2). Such high-leverage interventions offer the dual prospect of large benefits and harms. …..
What about violating property rights? What right do you have to spray chemicals all over our land and homes?
What effect do these particles have on our lungs and health?
What kind of damage will be done – or is already being done – to soil, crops and vegetation?
What are the real goals of these projects other than weather and climate control?
Same story (http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512536/reining-in-geoengineering-researchers/)