[videos] Geoengineering video list September

[Geoeng Info]

Hi everyone! I bring to you a small list of recent videos on the topics of Geoengineering.

There's a playlist with more videos on topic, you can check it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8369A27273314D8

Enjoy! Hope we all have a great coming week.

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Why Bill Gates Is Funding Solar Geoengineering Research

https://youtu.be/WR6uSXW-8p4?list=PLF8369A27273314D8

by CNBC

Fires burning across the Amazon rainforest have renewed the debate about solutions to climate change. Bill Gates is backing the first high-altitude experiment of one radical approach called solar geoengineering. It's meant to mimic the effects of a giant volcanic eruption. Thousands of planes would fly at high altitudes, spraying millions of tons of particles around the planet to create a massive chemical cloud that would cool the surface.

"Modeling studies have found that it could reduce the intensity of heat waves, for instance, apparently it could reduce the rate of sea level rise. It could reduce the intensity of tropical storms," said Andy Parker, project director at the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative.

The technology is not far from being ready and it's affordable, but it could cause massive changes in regional weather patterns and eradicate blue sky.

"These consequences might be horrific. They might involve things like mass famine, mass flooding, drought of kinds that will affect very large populations," said Stephen Gardiner, author of "A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change."

Watch the video to learn how it would work and hear the debate around the ethics and efficacy of solar geoengineering.

What discussion is needed in Latin America and the Caribbean on solar radiation modification?

https://youtu.be/ec-n2J-KLYQ?list=PLF8369A27273314D8

by C2G Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative

Ms. Alicia Bárcena assumed  office  as  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Economic  Commission  for  Latin  America  and  the  Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008. She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan.