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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Ray Kiliho from the Climate Change Work Group of the Pan African Youth Union in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, warned that proposals to halt global warming by seeding the atmosphere with sunlight-reflecting elements could have unpredictable effects on the weather in different regions.<\/p>\n

US President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to fight global warming by cutting sunlight could have disastrous unintended consequences, says an African climate advocate.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration prompted widespread disbelief and horror over the weekend with the publication of a 44-page report outlining the Science Fiction-like scheme to use \u2018geoengineering\u2019 to reduce the amount of the sun\u2019s energy that reaches the world\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

Options include Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) to reflect more of the sun\u2019s light away, marine cloud brightening to increase cloud cover over oceans and thinning out of the high-altitude cirrus clouds of ice crystals which reflect sunlight back to the earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n

But he pointed out that there were other possible means than trying to block out the sun\u2019s light and heat \u2014 the wellspring of life on Earth \u2014 including re-forestation, stimulating the growth of oxygen-producing phytoplankton and methods of directly removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The African youth leader highlighted the the risks of attempting climate control through blocking solar radiation, saying the \u201cunexpected effects remain unclear.<\/p>\n

He also argued that over-reliance on solar blocking could lead to a \u201ctechnological lock-in\u201d that would divert resources away from \u201cmore sustainable and comprehensive alternatives\u201d and delay the long-term switchover from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n

The expert also cautioned that engineering climate change on a global scale could have \u201cunforeseen regional implications\u201d as well as raising political and ethical issues.<\/p>\n

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