Raw answer: no. Law and politics work on https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ , and the legal liability will outweigh any actual costs by orders of magnitude. And the actual costs are probably WAY underestimated, ignoring inefficiencies and overhead of any real-world group that could undertake it.
There is also good reason to be cautious about the undertaking itself. We have no data on what actual weather shifts will occur with this scale of geoengineering, and the models have pretty large error bars. I don’t know enough to say whether we CAN undertake small-scale projects to measure, or whether it’s just impossible to know until we can model global weather in detail.
All that said, I suspect we’re near the point where failing to take control via geoengineering will doom us anyway, so the risky attempt is likely justified.
Raw answer: no. Law and politics work on https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ , and the legal liability will outweigh any actual costs by orders of magnitude. And the actual costs are probably WAY underestimated, ignoring inefficiencies and overhead of any real-world group that could undertake it.
There is also good reason to be cautious about the undertaking itself. We have no data on what actual weather shifts will occur with this scale of geoengineering, and the models have pretty large error bars. I don’t know enough to say whether we CAN undertake small-scale projects to measure, or whether it’s just impossible to know until we can model global weather in detail.
All that said, I suspect we’re near the point where failing to take control via geoengineering will doom us anyway, so the risky attempt is likely justified.