Media: Chemtrails ‘Help Fight Climate Change’

 

What was once branded as a crazy conspiracy theory for years, ‘chemtrails’ are now being lauded as a “solution” to help fight global warming, according to recent reports from several media outlets.

Media outlets such as the BBC and the Financial Times say that “geo-engineering,” or manipulating the climate, is a good way to help tackle rising temperatures.

Although experts admit there are many risks associated with blocking the sun, fearing it could mess with global weather patterns, it appears they are already plowing ahead with their strategy to “cool the planet.”

The BBC also appears to be on board with reflecting the sun back from the Earth to fight climate change.

They write:

“It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but the idea of reflecting solar radiation, the technical term for sunlight, is not as crazy as it might sound and sometimes happens in the natural world. During volcanic eruptions, huge amounts of ash and aerosols – tiny particles – can be transported into the high atmosphere which can then reflect solar radiation back into space.”

The Financial Times agrees:

Solar radiation modification is highly experimental and not without climate, health and ethical risks. It includes techniques such as stratospheric aerosol injection that would involve releasing tiny particles into the upper atmosphere to scatter sunlight, mimicking the cooling effects seen after large volcanic eruptions, or marine cloud brightening in which seawater would be sprayed into the air to increase the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.

These methods could potentially reduce global temperatures quickly and inexpensively. They could also have serious harmful consequences and disrupt regional weather patterns, harm the ozone layer and lead to acid rain.

A significant concern is that SRM does not address the underlying problem of greenhouse gas emissions.

While SRM could temporarily cool the planet, it would not reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere or ever fully restore the climate to its pre-industrial state. Additionally, SRM could create a “termination shock” scenario, where a sudden halt in SRM activities would lead to rapid and potentially dangerous warming. The risk of countries or private entities deploying SRM adds to these concerns.

Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, says something needs to be done quickly to stop global boiling.

“We need to start to think about other things that we can do in order to limit any further warming,” Bentley said.

“That’s where geo-engineering starts to become an interesting discussion.”

Professor Jim Haywood, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Exeter, urges caution about blocking out the sun.

“I really want to know about the detrimental impacts of climate change, but also about the potential side-effects and detrimental impacts of any solar radiation management deployments,” he said.

It doesn’t stop there, however.

Last year, we reported that some scientists are even going as far as to catch an asteroid and tether it to block out the sun to cool the planet down.

The plan would involve placing a huge umbrella on the trapped rock to shield Earth from the sun and creating an enormous ‘solar shield,” according to István Szapudi, an astronomer from the University of Hawaii.

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Media: Chemtrails 'Helps Fight Climate Change'