Carolyn Gramling, quoting scientists for the Science News, suggests we can reverse climate change by solar geoengineering. The idea is to mimic what happens when a volcano erupts and spews sulfur and ash into the planet’s atmosphere, which temporarily reduces temperatures.
I’m no scientist and never played one on TV, but I can see several issues with this proposal. The most troubling thing about this is our species’ record on things we’ve tried to do to improve the natural process. I’m pretty sure we’re winless against long term ecosystems.
Humans have harnessed and rerouted rivers to disastrous results, fire management practices contribute to worse case fire problems, and we’ve destroyed ecosystems by manipulating Apex predators. Hundred year floods now happen monthly.
We’ve also wiped out millions of creatures in order to spend our weekends cutting grass and poisoning Dandelions, which are edible to humans and also support many species of flying insects. Nonnative sod hardens the ground so rainfall runs off lawns, into streets, and eventually the nearest river, carrying poisonous chemicals with it.
Gardening, which actually is beneficial in several ways, is frowned on by “Real Men.” It’s too quiet and requires no power tools. Plus, you have to hit your knees to weed the okra. In addition to this a large percentage of Americans still don’t accept climate change as real. If anything, we are heading in a different direction.
While large numbers of Americans, especially rich and powerful people don’t consider our current problems with nature to be problems, many of those same people are convinced there are nefarious things happening with our weather. We’ve decided science is bad and started believing unbelievable things.
Sixteen states, almost a third of America, have enacted laws making it illegal to use chemtrails to change the weather. This law should be easily enforced since chemtrails are only water vapor and can’t change the weather. But politicians are listening to their voters. Enough people consider chemtrails dangerous that they voted likeminded people into a governing body and are happy they are dealing with this.
Part of this is because we’ve lost faith in science, and especially scientists. Everything in America these days is influenced by video of some sort. Scientists don’t interview well. If you remember the seventh grade, when wormy guys with pocket protectors were acing physics exams while the rest of us were trying to impress girls, you may remember how socially awkward these guys were. They still are.
Slick, highly trained talkers willing to say anything with a smile just to stay in power now flood all media. Speaking of that, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Congressperson and wellspring of conspiracy theories, has introduced legislation to ban geoengineering.
“I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,” Greene posted on social media, as she proposed making weather modification a felony.
Cloud seeding, which only works in small doses under drought conditions, would be illegal if this bill passes. Everything else mentioned in Greene’s bill, and the legislation already signed into law, are impossible, except on conspiracy theory web posts.
Wouldn’t it be great if catering to stupidity was a felony?
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