Indeed: Nope.

The URL says it all. The piece says more:
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521780927/scientists-who-want-to-study-climate-engineering-shun-trump

And this: https://twitter.com/GernotWagner/status/847033323918708736

Gernot Wagner
gwagner.com

From: Adrian Tuck
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 8:48
To: [email protected]
Cc: Geoengineering
Subject: Re: [geo] Trump presidency 'opens door' to planet-hacking 
geoengineerexperiments

Does geoengineering really want to be associated with Trump? It fulfils the 
fears that many atmospheric scientists had in the wake of Crutzen’s paper, that 
a climate denying politician would seize on it as a substitute for reducing 
fossil fuel burning. The laws of nature cannot be repealed, unlike the laws 
that emerge from politics. We’ll all have to suffer the collateral damage until 
it’s obvious even to Republicans that something urgent has to be done. Until 
then, with apologies to Honest Abe, “Government of the stupid, by the stupid, 
for the stupid, ought to vanish from the face of the Earth.” But it won’t.
On 29 Mar 2017, at 06:37, Greg Rau <[email protected]> wrote:


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/mar/27/trump-presidency-opens-door-to-planet-hacking-geoengineer-experiments

"While geoengineering received little favour under Obama, high-level officials 
within the Trump administration have been long-time advocates for 
planetary-scale manipulation of Earth systems.

"David Schnare, an architect of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency 
transition, has lobbied the US government and testified to Senate in favour of 
federal support for geoengineering.

"He has called for a multi-phase plan to fund research and conduct real-world 
testing within 18 months, deploy massive stratospheric spraying three years 
after, and continue spraying for a century, a duration geoengineers believe 
would be necessary to dial back the planet’s temperature."
….
“Clearly parts of the Trump administration are very willing to open the door to 
reckless schemes like David Keith’s, and may well have quietly given the nod to 
open-air experiments,” said Silvia Riberio, with technology watchdog ETC Group. 
“Worryingly, geoengineering may emerge as this administration’s preferred 
approach to global warming. In their view, building a big beautiful wall of 
sulphate in the sky could be a perfect excuse to allow uncontrolled fossil fuel 
extraction. We need to be focussing on radical emissions cuts, not dangerous 
and unjust technofixes.”"

GR:  I'm confused -  if global warming is a Chinese hoax*, why is Trump et al 
interested in countering it? Perhaps if you apply enough alternate facts you 
eventually get back to the truth?
* 
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/world/asia/china-trump-climate-change.html?_r=0



 

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