The Hubris of Playing God: NOAA’s Geoengineering and Carbon Capture Fantasies
This document, laden with grandiose claims and alarming uncertainties, outlines a vision that is as scientifically questionable as it is ethically troubling.
The Hubris of Playing God: NOAA’s Geoengineering and Carbon Capture Fantasies
It seems the scientists at NOAA have decided they can play god with our planet's climate system. The recently released NOAA fact sheet on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) reads like a manifesto for techno-utopian hubris, proposing a future where carbon capture and geoengineering are wielded as tools to reshape the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. This document, laden with grandiose claims and alarming uncertainties, outlines a vision that is as scientifically questionable as it is ethically troubling.
NOAA's fact sheet emphasizes the role of human-caused CO2 emissions as a primary driver of climate change, leading to a slew of environmental changes, from ocean acidification to altered marine food webs.
"Human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas (GHG), has been the largest driver of climate change over the past century. The increase of CO2 in the atmosphere has led to warming of surface temperatures over land and in the global oceans, ocean waters becoming more acidic and lower in oxygen, changes in marine food webs, and other associated climate impacts".
The narrative suggests that only by drastically reducing emissions and removing CO2 from the atmosphere ca...
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