Mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’ and climate scientists and ‘entrepreneurs’ are drooling in anticipation of the research grants, subsidies and investment grants which will keep them in luxury for years.
Now scientists at the University of Cambridge plan to set up a research center to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate.
These include refreezing the poles, removing CO2 from the atmosphere and fertilizing the sea with iron salts to promote the growth of plankton.
Over the years there has been failure after failure with climate schemes but still, the government plows in more taxpayers’ money.
Remember Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) which was going to ‘save the planet’? A costly failure.
Remember Salter’s Duck, a device that converts wave power to electricity? Another non-starter.
Then there was the idea of dropping weights down a disused mineshaft to turn a generator and produce electricity. Gravitricity received £650,000 in government grants but has produced no grid electricity so far.
Pride of place must go to Kite Power Systems who were proposing to fly kites to produce electricity. I think they were told: ‘Go fly a kite’.
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It sounds like Climate Geoengineering is only to benefit those doing the research, just like everything else associated the climate change movement. If Climate Geoengineering had a real chance of working, it would be met with immediate hostility. This approach does not force the reduced use of fossil fuels. So many political agendas depend on this, such taxes on carbon dioxide emissions. About ten years ago there was a serious proposal to release aerosols in the upper atmosphere as a means to solve global warming. It was met with instant hostility. Then, as is the case now, it was said that it was certain that the end of world was only a few years away because of warming. Yet, the aerosol solution was unacceptable because it was uncertain what all of the impacts might be. Of course the real problem with it was it didn’t support the hidden political agendas.