Earth experiment could buy precious time

As the UK’s Royal Society prepares to publish its conclusions on whether geo-engineering can help combat climate change, physicist Alan Gadian argues that geo-engineering techniques, in particular cloud whitening, must be properly tested – and soon.

Planet Earth has become a huge science experiment, and the consequences will affect all of us.

He argues that billions of people are likely to die in the ensuing famine. “Enjoy life while you can.

“Because if you’re lucky it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan”.

“Global warming poses a greater threat than world terrorism and agreement must be reached within two years to mitigate global warming and minimise environmental catastrophe,” Sir David King, the UK’s chief scientist, wrote in 2007.

…As James Lovelock states: “There have been seven disasters since humans came on the Earth, very similar to the one that’s just about to happen.”

BBC