Shock and Thaw? Civil Society says “No” as geo-engineers mount shock bid to hack the planet.
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OTTAWA, Canada –More than 80 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 20 countries sent a sharp message to scientists meeting in Copenhagen, by releasing a joint statement initiated at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil: “The Better World we seek is not Geo-engineered.” The statement is being released as a small group of scientists, using a high-profile platform at a climate-science meeting in Copenhagen1 , are ratcheting up pressure on governments to support and fund real world geo-engineering experiments. ETC Group, a Canadian-based international CSO, is releasing the statement, which focuses on ocean fertilization, one of the most controversial geo-engineering technologies. The groups assert that “Ocean fertilization and other unjust and high risk geo-engineering schemes are the wrong answer to the challenge of global climate change.”
The better world we seek is not Geo-engineered! A Civil Society Statement against Ocean Fertilization
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This statement was initiated at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil in January 2009. ETC Group released it on March 10, 2009 on the eve of a geo-engineering panel at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions.
Since the World Social Forum last met in Nairobi in January 2007, civil society organizations from around the globe have confronted an alarming new threat to our rights and biodiversity: the threat of unjust and high risk geo-engineering schemes and specifically ocean fertilization. We are facing off against several multimillion-dollar private and government-backed projects that aim to re-engineer our climate and oceans. We will soon face other attempts to intentionally alter our soils, deserts and other ecosystems on a large scale in the name of climate protection and profit-making, including the lucrative carbon trade.
El Tiempo se agota para detener el cambio climático
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A menos de un mes del ciere de la convocatoria del Grupo ETC a la competencia “Tapando el sol con un dedo”, personas de todo el mundo han enviado sus excéntricas ideas para rediseñar el planeta, de modo que el planeta (junto con nosotros) pueda sobre vivir el cambio climático. Las propuestas de algunos geoingenieros profesionales para manipular los suelos, el mar y la atmósfera en gran escala ya están llevándose a cabo: propuestas para desparecer las emisiones, evitar que la luz del sol llegue a la Tierra y, por supuesto, para lucrar con el mercado de carbono.
Geo-Engineering Contest Heats Up as April Fools' Day Approaches
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With less than a month left (March 2009) to enter ETC Group’s Pie-in-the-Sky contest, people from all over the world are sending in their outlandish ideas to re-engineer the planet so it (and we) can survive climate change.
Some professional geo-engineers have real designs in the works to manipulate the earth, sea and atmosphere on a large scale – to make carbon disappear, to keep sunlight from hitting the earth and, of course, to profit from the carbon market. They're a busy bunch: pleading their case in the press and at meetings of international environmental bodies; dumping iron particles from ships to “fertilize” the ocean; applying for monopoly patents on schemes to increase the carbon-sequestering capacity of plants by applying proprietary insecticides(!)1; and publishing articles in influential journals declaring that now is the time to “take geo-engineering out of the closet.”
El Grupo ETC convoca a la primera competencia de geoingeniería de la historia: "Tapando el sol con un dedo"
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Arranca la primera competencia “Tapando el sol con un dedo” para las propuestas de geoingeniería más excéntricas para combatir el calentamiento global, al tiempo que la discusión sobre las propuestas técnicas para arreglar el planeta se pone más en boga: desde principios de año, un barco de India y Alemania zarpó hacia el océano y arrojó toneladas de sulfato de hierro por la borda en un dudoso intento por capturar dióxido de carbono en la profundidad del océano.[1] Una irresponsable empresa con capital de riesgo se prepara para verter urea en el Mar de Tasmania con el mismo propósito;[2] una universidad inglesa publicó la lista de las prácticas de geoingeniería más frecuentes;[3] y la Royal Society del Reino Unido está a punto de presentar su propia evaluación sobre la geoingeniería.[4]