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This is why the U.N. has a moritorium on Weather Modification aka Geoengineering for hostile purposes, but for non hostile purposes it is allowed. Perhaps that is why the push to develop so much national policy on governance!
Originally posted by Phage
Yes. I saw the link the first time.
Please tell me where in the video he says that the benefits outweigh the risks. A timestamp would be helpful.
Washington, DC — Award-winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken” and noted that the Earth was currently in a “CO2 famine now.” Happer, who has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, made his remarks during today’s Environment and Public Works Full Committee Hearing entitled “Update on the Latest Global Warming Science.”
“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) – 280 (parts per million - ppm) – that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that,” Happer told the Senate Committee
epw.senate.gov...
He also says that even a small amount of SRM the benefits outweigh the dangers
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by burntheships
No, he is talking about taking money and re-distrubuting it to the uber wealthy.
You mean those uber-wealthy underdeveloped countries which, because they have a small carbon footprint, would be able to sell huge amounts of carbon credits to the developed countries which produce huge amounts of carbon?
Those uber-wealthy?
Read what he said.
That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capital basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there. This will have enormous implications for development policy. And it will raise the question if these countries can deal responsibly with so much money at all.
Originally posted by ProRipp
I'm quite surprised that after 13 pages the mods have'nt moved this thread to the
geo-engineering forum where it belongs and more members may want to contribute ?
Mods ?
Sorry for off topic, still reading through posts !
Peace
Thats a long discussion better left for another thread.
In no way will that kind of a racket (and yes that is what it is) reduce emissions.
In order for that to have any long term effects, the small nations are limited, not able to develop larger cargon footprints or they would lose the credits.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by burntheships
In no way will that kind of a racket (and yes that is what it is) reduce emissions.
Remember? I agree that carbon credits are unlikely to help the situation.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by ManBehindTheMask
The UN has no moratorium on weather modification (cloud seeding).
They do have a moratorium on geoengineering. The are not the same thing.
Great links there, thank you for all of the info!
Consider some examples. Let’s start with “International Government Organizations,” such as the WTO, the G20, and the World Health Organization, the International Postal Union, and the International Civil Aviation Organization, created in 1944 to promote aviation. All States belong to it, but the stake-holders also include passengers, airline shareholders, pilots, baggage handlers, and environmentalists who worry about airplane emissions. None of these stakeholders are represented on ICAO’s decision-making boards, but they should be.
There’s also Interpol, which pursues criminals across international borders. One of its functional constituencies comprises citizens concerned about the global narcotics traffic —
e.g. whether to crack down harder on the consumers or the producers. Such decisions are still mainly made by sovereign states, without consulting the stakeholders, who include drug users, the bereaved families of addicts, poppy farmers, and drug lords, etc. Instead, the US government decides whether to burn the crops of Afghan farmers. (If Afghans were consulted, they might vote for their poppies to be made into morphine and given to hospitals in poor countries, where patients cannot afford painkillers. The decision-makers should at least POLL the producers and users, as well as certain other functional constituencies, such as the taxpayers who pay for law-enforcement.)
Transnational NGOs also influence global governance. They include the YMCA, Greenpeace, the International Peace Bureau, the International Sociological Association, and the Rotary Club. Although they are democratic, they are not represented in official regulatory bodies, but should be.
Next: corporations. They often wield more power than democratic States. We need to make them accountable to citizens. Various approaches have been proposed. Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that all corporation charters be issued for only five or ten years, after which their records should be reviewed. If a corporation is found to have violated environmental, economic, or societal standards, its charter would be re-assigned to a different group.