If you think things are mad already when it comes to climate change, just wait. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Some events of recent weeks:
- Within days of winning the British general election, the new Labour government announces a total ban on all new drilling for oil in the North Sea.
- The government of Denmark approves an annual tax for farmers of hundreds of dollars per cow to offset the emissions they produce. The tax will be introduced in 2030.
- Scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford tell the world, in a new white paper, that urgent research needs to be conducted into glacial geoengineering to prevent Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets from melting. They propose, among other things, anchoring giant “curtains” to the seafloor to prevent warmer water from undermining ice sheets, and drilling huge holes in them, right down to the glacier bed, to allow meltwater streams to be redirected and preserve the ice.
Last year we were told, by UN secretary general António Guterres, that the world has entered the era of “global boiling.” Global warming is now officially over.
This is hysterical language. It bears no relation whatsoever to most people’s experience of the weather. It’s mid-July and it might as well be February here in England. Frankly, I pray for global boiling when all I really want to do is get some sun on my wedding tackle and jump in the sea. But the English summer is the English summer. Always has been, always will be.
None of this matters, though, because the climate cult operates according to a logic that is totally its own and amenable in no obvious way to inputs that don’t conform, with vicious circularity, to its own presuppositions and strictures. That’s why it’s a cult.
As we near 2030, and it becomes certain that the world’s nations will not reach their emissions-reductions targets as set out in the Paris Climate Accords, we can expect the hysteria to get so much worse. We’re already being told that catastrophic climate change is now unavoidable, and that billions of people will be on the move in the coming decades. Some are even saying that these billions should be welcomed to the West now, in advance of the chaos. This is so-called “climate migration,” and it’s going to dominate discussion of the potential effects of climate change very soon. The new hard-left coalition that controls French politics has already demanded that Macron make the effects of climate change a legitimate reason for migrants from anywhere in the world to come to France.
The consequences of the measures I listed at the beginning of the piece, or at least the first two, are pretty clear. The phasing out of fossil fuels will make Western economies poorer and less productive. People will have to adjust their lives to rolling blackouts, to not heating their homes in the winter and to using antiquated public transport instead of their beloved cars. Western governments, for whatever reason, will continue the South Africanisation of our nations, even as massively polluting countries like India and China continue building oil-, gas- and coal-fired power stations at a rate that cancels out everything they do.
Taxes on animal emissions will force small farmers out of business. Those small farmers who remain will be forced to diversify into landscape management, planting forests and acting as glorified stewards of the land, rather than real farmers. Big corporations will move in and capture the food supply at last, completing a process that has been ongoing for the last century and resulted in unparalleled ill health and loss of freedom through dependency on medicine and the products of Big Pharma. We will all eat less meat and dairy products, maybe even none at all, and be reduced to a uniform standard of weakness unseen in our history as a species.
When it comes to geoengineering, though, we simply don’t have a clue. Nothing like it has ever been tried. That’s what makes it so incredibly dangerous.
Until recently, geoengineering was the preserve of eccentric cranks. Scientists knew that the climate is an extraordinarily complex system, and that any human intervention to modify it is likely to prove clumsy at best and to have unintended consequences that could be disastrous and irreversible at worst.
In their capacity as advisors to government, scientists told our rulers this, and any discussion of its potential uses was left in the realms of science fiction where it belonged.
So when somebody like Russ George came along in 2012 and took it upon himself to dump hundreds of tons of iron sulfate in the waters off British Columbia, hoping to create a giant carbon sink, he was roundly condemned for his absurd recklessness; although he somehow managed to escape prosecution. He should have been made an example of.
Now, however, a little over a decade later, scientists and governments have lost all their qualms. Huge amounts of money are pouring in to geoengineering research across the globe, and small-scale pilot projects are already taking place, with the aim to scale them up very soon and unleash them on the world.
In February, The Wall Street Journal published a detailed report on three ongoing important geoengineering projects taking place, with a mixture of government and private funding.
In Australia, researchers from Southern Cross University are releasing a brine mixture into the sky to create larger, brighter clouds that will reflect more sunlight and reduce local temperatures. The project is funded by the Australian government, universities, and conservation organizations.
In Israel, Stardust Solutions is testing a delivery system to disperse reflective particles at high altitudes, again to reduce solar radiation. The startup is testing the system indoors but will move to outdoor tests in the “next few months.”
And in the US, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute plans to add 6,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide to the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard. Like Russ George, they want to produce a carbon sink that sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into the sea, storing it there. The U.S. government and private sources fund the project. The release of the chemical will require further approval from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Of course, scientists still know that the climate is an enormously complex system, far beyond our full comprehension—they know this, primarily, because their own models have so far predicted Jack sh*t—but now they’re saying the benefits of geoengineering outweigh the risks. How they’ve reached this conclusion is anybody’s guess, since they can’t predict the effects of climate change or of geoengineering when it’s actually applied out there, in the real world.
Ultimately, it seems, we’re just supposed to Trust the Science. Where have we heard that before?
If we are to prevent ecological disaster on an unprecedented scale, we need to get a handle on geoengineering, and we need to do it now. Tennessee, at least, has enacted a ban on geoengineering within its state territory, but that’s nowhere near enough. We don’t just need state bans: we need national and international bans.
So far, the only determined and successful pushback against the climate cult on the international stage came under President Donald Trump, who pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accords and increased domestic production of energy sources tremendously. Trump has already promised to pull the US out of the Paris Accords for a second time if he wins this November.
Trump’s climate agenda, such as it is, should include strong anti-geoengineering provisions. His administration should make clear that any decision taken to geoengineer the earth’s climate is a decision taken on behalf of the US and its citizens by a foreign power, and that, under an America First policy, is a hostile act. Countries who do geoengineering should be treated as enemies. Startups and corporations and activists who do it—and believe me, activists are going to try it—should be treated as international terrorists. No exceptions.
By the climate cultists’ own admission, the planet is our common inheritance. And that’s exactly where the fightback against this reckless nonsense should begin—before it’s too late.
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