https://therealnews.com/columns/climate-official-pushing-controversial-sun-blocking-plan-resigns
“Real” #Geoengineering News
Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (#SCoPEx), a controversial program aimed at reversing the climate crisis that we covered here several weeks ago suffered a recent blow after its chairwoman stepped down.
The program is based at #Harvard University and until July 22 had an advisory council chaired by the director of the California Strategic Growth Council, Louise #Bedsworth.
But after coming under scrutiny both from global climate justice groups and in a June 19 story by The Real News Network, Bedsworth has stepped down from the post.
The scrutiny was aimed at the technology for which the research group is pushing to develop a governance mechanism, called solar geoengineering or solar radiation management, for reflecting sunlight away from the Earth to halt the greenhouse effect of climate change.
That technofix—which involves spraying #aerosols into the atmosphere for an indefinite period of time to shield the Earth—is seen by many as both potentially dangerous to deploy and also a way to continue business as usual in emitting greenhouse gases.
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