Media coverage of SCoPEx is stunningly bad, I have to say. “As it climbs to an altitude of 12 miles it will cross a historic threshold: the first serious attempt to explore whether global warming could be kept in check by dimming the sun”
Seriously? It’s a tiny experiment to measure some chemical reaction rates that inform/improve climate models… it is a historic threshold perhaps in the first deliberate material release experiment in the stratosphere that is specifically intended to inform SAI, but not the first in any other sense, and I don’t know why that is somehow magically more “serious” than all the rest of the research to date. Popular media has a dismal track record in this field. From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Gideon Futerman Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 10:53 AM To: geoengineering <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> Subject: [geo] News coverage of SCoPEx- The Times Bill Gates backs bid to cool Earth with chalk dust | News | The Times<https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bill-gates-backs-bid-to-cool-earth-with-chalk-dust-llrbmwlmr> It is behind a paywall, but nonetheless a discussion of solar geoengineering in popular media -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/605a00de.1c69fb81.dec9a.2420SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/605a00de.1c69fb81.dec9a.2420SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CH2PR04MB6936CC93AC20C9260B2E1B8F8F649%40CH2PR04MB6936.namprd04.prod.outlook.com.
