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Topic starter 25/07/2025 10:11 am  

We clocked this article back in July from the BBC about real-world UK experiments to reflect sunlight and potentially cool the planet. At the time, I dismissed it. But this summer has felt different to the previous seven where we've lived, with a persistent haze most days, even when it’s “sunny”. Our skies feel… muted. 

Haze

Is anyone else noticing this?

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25/07/2025 3:59 pm  

I am not a scientist nor a meteorologist and I know the cube root of s*d all about climatology, however, ignorance does not ban me from having my own thoughts and fears of such interventions as cloud impregnation to produce higher reflectivity.

Perhaps I am cynical but who or what organisations are the proposed funders of such schemes - might they have some connection with the fossil fuel industry? I feel that such schemes are proposed, not to reduce the climate imbalance but to quell those who wish to reduce fossil fuel use; ‘if we do this, then we can burn more fossils without deleterious effect on the climate, so all is ok innit?’ type of thing.

We (all the ‘developed’ nations) have been pouring pollutants into the air for some 200 years with little thought as to the outcome of such actions. The effects have been cumulative and some ‘tin pot’ hair brained, unproven ideas of painting clouds with reflective properties (using aircraft that themselves are spewing out even more pollutants as they go on their merry way) just won’t cut it! (The expression about a drop in the ocean comes to mind.) 2 centuries of spewing pollutants into the air would take a great deal of of remedial measures I feel. Is it a proven technology they would like to use? I doubt it - and if the technology isn’t sound…

On your actual question Mars, with my eyesight, I am not sure if I would detect such a haze anyway; however, I feel that even if my visions of the situation are a little jaundiced (sceptical?) I foresee such money being wasted with as yet unknown consequences and might well have been invested in renewable energy projects instead.

Am I a looney, a fear monger, an ill educated twerp who should not be let loose, never mind allowed access to such organs as RHH? Maybe, but I feel I am entitled to my opinion and feel that in my 77 years so far, I have witnessed numerous ‘experiments’ that have back fired on humanity and the world. I think Sir David Attenborough would have something to say on the matter (and so much more eloquently than I) - I’ll step down from my soap box now - who’s next?

Regrets, Toodles

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