George B
Extinct but not forgotten Staff Member
Well if it's undetectable, then there's nothing that can be done about it, so one would have to go with the ethics of innocent until proven otherwise - ie, until rational empirical, not speculative, evidence mounts.
Or do you suggest pre-emptive action in case it's happening, because ' you can't prove it's not'?
There might be invisible monsters giving us cancer, what should we do about it?
I appreciate your concern is genuine and I'm not trying to mock it, but it's hard to see a practical application for it (the suspicion).
1) Things are sometimes not detected because no one is paying attention . . . no one believes some one would take unilateral action . . . so detection is in essence not impossible but like a magician uses slight of hand to distract an audience the people initiating geoengineering are counting on evidence being easily explained away because geoengineering is rejected as a possible explanation . . .
2) I suggest the scientific community should seriously consider the possibility that this could occur . . . and it could be detected if they were diligent and consider the possibility it could be happening or might happen in the near future . . .
3) IMO the ground work is being laid to either convince the world community geoengineering is essential in the near future or they are buying time and trying to immunize themselves from the potential of massive blowback once their existing actions are discovered . . . Interference could sink their plans . . . the lead time for such an undertaking is significant . . .
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