There are geoengineering projects aimed at influencing climate change. These are projects that try to reduce or compensate for the problems our planet has with the different effects of climate change.
However, the actions carried out by geoengineering raise questions of an ethical nature, because it has different risks on the planet. Do you want to know what is being done to mitigate the effects of climate change?
Geoengineering
Researchers from all over the world have been experimenting for decades with this type of project that seeks to condition various aspects of the climate at will to cause or prevent rainfall in specific places, manage solar radiation levels or reduce carbon dioxide in the air.
For example, solar geoengineering deals with manage the amount of sunlight entering the atmosphere, in order to control surface warming and reduce global warming. In experimental models, the action of the solar geoengineering could reverse the effects of climate change, although it is unknown whether it would actually work.
The planet's climate is going to change no matter what, however, we can try to reduce the impacts of that climate change. This technology can benefit many people and minimize the harm to others, but it can also do the opposite. Therefore, it is key to consider projects like those who address the impact of floods in our society.
Anyway, geoengineering does not reduce the need to build a cleaner energy system and lead the economy towards an energy transition based on clean renewable energies.
Some such projects are available on the market, as demonstrated by the fact that in March 2012 the Community of Madrid allocated nearly 120.000 euros to a project to increase snowfall using “controlled cloud stimulation” technologies, an approach that is related to the artificial rain to the German company Radimeter Physics.
Mimic natural processes
Another geoengineering project is to create synthetic trees capable of capture and store CO2 like the real thing, but with greater speed and efficiency. There are also projects launching microcrystals into space to bounce solar radiation back to dump iron into the oceans to encourage the growth of microscopic plants that absorb CO2 and drag it to the bottom of the sea. This raises similar questions to those discussed in the debate on climate change and global warming.
With this technology we are playing to be God and we should leave it now that we have time, since nature has its own cycles all the time and we do not know what consequences this may have on the climate.
