Financial Times: ‘Chemtrails are Not a Conspiracy Theory – They Help Combat Climate Change’
The Financial Times has admitted that chemtrail spraying is NOT a conspiracy theory, as mainstream media has been claiming for years – but a real phenomenon that helps combat the so-called “greenhouse effect.”
In a new article published Monday, titled “Geoengineering is worth the risk – provided we regulate it properly,” the Financial Times argues that artificially lowering the Earth’s temperature through geoengineering will help avert a future climate change disaster, writes Sean Adl-Tabatabai .
Ft.com reports:
If all global climate action pledges and commitments are met, we will see a 2.4 to 2.6C increase by the end of the century. This is much lower than the 4C increase without climate action, but also much higher than the 1.5C target set by the Paris Agreement.
Worse still, this target is at risk of being exceeded, as the world reached an average annual temperature last year of 1.45°C above pre-industrial levels. Rapid emissions reductions, stronger adaptation efforts, and increased carbon removal remain crucial to limit the worst impacts of global warming. But with risks already high and increasing alarmingly, we cannot afford to ignore existing methods. This includes controversial methods such as geoengineering—particularly solar radiation modification (SRM), which reflects a small fraction of sunlight back into space to cool the planet. In recent months, SRM has gained increasing attention in scientific circles, the international media, and among various climate stakeholders.
SRM is highly experimental and not without risks for the climate, health, and ethics. It includes techniques such as stratospheric aerosol injection, where tiny particles are released into the upper atmosphere to scatter sunlight, mimicking the cooling effects after large volcanic eruptions, or marine cloud brightening, where seawater is sprayed into the air to increase the reflectivity of low-lying clouds. These methods could quickly and cheaply lower the Earth’s temperature. They can also have serious harmful effects, disrupting regional weather patterns, depleting the ozone layer, and leading to acid rain.
A key concern is that SRM fails to address the underlying problem of greenhouse gas emissions. While SRM could temporarily cool the Earth, it would not reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations or ever fully restore the climate to pre-industrial levels. Moreover, SRM could lead to an “end-shock” scenario, where a sudden cessation of SRM activities would lead to rapid and potentially dangerous warming. The risk of countries or private entities deploying SRM further exacerbates these concerns.
While SRM is controversial, our collective failure to limit global warming to 1.5°C leaves us little choice but to investigate it and carefully assess whether it can provide any benefit and whether we can realistically mitigate all the risks.
First, this can only be achieved through a global governance framework for SRM management. Currently, there is no binding international framework to regulate SRM research or application. This increases the risk of premature or ill-considered use of these technologies. Second, every country must impose a moratorium on the use of SRM and large-scale experiments until sufficient scientific understanding and governance structures are in place. Third, SRM research must be expanded, with an emphasis on transparency (including funding) and global participation, including developing countries.
Next year’s UN Environment Assembly-7 and COP30 provide the right opportunities for decision-making on the complex risks and benefits of SRM. In more than a year, there will be sufficient time for broad consultations with governments, international organizations, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to address SRM with the utmost care, responsibility, and cooperation. This is not about taking shortcuts in climate action, and SRM should only be a last resort. But it would be remiss to dismiss potential answers to the current global warming emergency.