Geoengineering
Recent years have seen a proliferation of dangerous geoengineering proposals – attempts to manipulate Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in order to address the effects of climate change. These range from injecting megatons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, to every container ship in the world dumping limestone in its wake to draw carbon dioxide down from the atmosphere.
Friends of the Earth campaigns against the development and deployment of geoengineering technologies that have the potential to inflict catastrophic side-effects on Earth’s systems, such as reducing monsoon rainfall in Asia and Africa, increasing heat waves in Europe to cool California, or killing off phytoplankton at the base of the marine food chain in oceans across the planet.
Report charts potential locations for high-risk marine geoengineering experiments, illustrating the alarming scale of proposed interventions.
Carboniferous is trying to turn a uniquely sensitive, poorly understood deep-sea ecosystem into a private carbon dump.
Friends of the Earth US and the Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance publicly oppose the re-proposed LOC-NESS experiment.
Sodium hydroxide is a dangerous, caustic chemical that causes chemical burns on contact with skin, and would be dumped into waters frequented by at least eight endangered species.
The Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972 requires that all activities that attempt to produce “artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere” must file public transparency reports.
What is marine geoengineering? Attempts to manipulate the Earth’s oceans to counteract the effects of climate change.
What is solar geoengineering? Technologies that would reflect a portion of the sun’s rays back into space.
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Learn MoreA Gathering Storm: How Marine Geoengineering Threatens All Ocean Basins
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DownloadPublic comment letter on Carboniferous geoengineering firm
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DownloadLetter to NOAA on Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972