What's In A Word?
By Lisa Thomas, contributing writer for geoengineeringwatch.org
I am sitting beside a lake in Northern California and the sky is an
open blue canvas as far to the left and right of me as I can see; but it
is smeared with graffiti and it is the wrong shade of blue, dull and
pale. Just few years ago it would have been turquoise from where I am
sitting and only cumulus clouds might have hung low, seeming almost
tangible behind the ridges on the other side of the lake. The rest of
that open dome would have been nothing but solid aqua-blue, a shade that
is almost beyond description. I fell in love with that sky when we came
here to live nearly ten years ago, deeply, crazy in love.On February 14th, I sat in the front row at a conference on geoengineering at the 2015 AAAS meeting in San Jose, California. I watched a panel of scientists and one law professor each take his turn in a sort of performance that made no sense to me. On his way in, Alan Robock of Rutgers University went out of his way to say to a group of activists in front of the convention center, “I don't know what you're all protesting. It's nothing but water vapor.” This is the man who, in 2008, wrote “20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea”. During the conference he made it a point to say that the reason those of us in Northern California notice these trails so much more than other people and think they are a problem is because our sky is so blue.
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