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Combatting Climate Change Through Geo-Engineering Not an Option

Print Tuesday, 02 November 2010 11:37 Written by The Link, Radio Canada International



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Phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. Encouraging such blooms with iron fertilization could lock up carbon on the seabed. (NASA)
Phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. Encouraging such blooms with iron fertilization could lock up carbon on the seabed. (NASA)
Nearly 200 countries have decided not to allow large-scale experiments to alter the weather. The trials were planned to try to find a way to deal with climate change. Reporter Lynn Desjardins tells us exactly what scientists were planning to do and why so many countries have decided to stop them.

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#2 Yeah, right! — Tanya 2010-11-02 23:59
"Nearly 200 countries have decided not to allow large-scale experiments to alter the weather."

Note that Canada and the US are NOT among those countries. Also note that CHEMTRAILS (you know, those things that muddy up our skies everyday, killing us softly with aluminum, barium and god knows what else) are still being reported, both here in North America, as well as in the countries that agreed on this moratorium.

To get the whole picture, which is a lot scarier than you could ever imagine, I recommend you watch "What In The World Are They Spraying?" on YouTube.
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#1 Stop Geoengineering. Support Climate Justice. Hands Off Mother Earth! — Dexter X 2010-11-02 14:23
"Alaska natives are hit first and hit hardest by catastrophic climate change. Iin order to address the crisis, we need to avoid false solutions such as geoengineering, and tackle the root causes of the crisis instead" -Faith Gemmill, from Arctic Village, member of Hands Off Mother Earth. If geoengineering tests were to weaken the African and Asian summer monsoons, as some models have shown, water and food supplies to more than two billion people could be threatened. These risky technological fixes are a way to avoid the dealing with our addictions to oil and over-consumption. Is it easier to blot out the sun than get people to take the bus? The geoengineering ban at the UN's Convention on Biodiversity is a great victory for common sense, but unfortunately the fight's not over. Join the photo-petition to stop climate profiteers & corporate planet hackers
http://handsoffmotherearth.org/photos
http://twitter/HandsOffMotherE
http://www.facebook.com/HandsOffMotherEarth
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