Climate Honesty - Ending Climate Brightsiding

Current data on emissions, atmospheric concentrations, global temperatures, and widening impacts are frightening. Even so, some of the most worrying science has been downplayed, while the emissions curve continues to rise. Clearly, such brightsiding, not only limits the climate agenda, but is neither scientific nor ethical. Dr. Jem Bendell exposes the danger of imagining that we can ignore facts, playing games with nature, because nature always wins.

Dr. Ye Tao explains why efforts towards net zero, while essential, have the effect of reducing the global dimming that is the result of polluting particles, which is actually cooling the planet significantly: a terrifying dilemma that has been largely ignored. Yet many influential organizations criticize people for being ‘too negative’ about the current and future impacts of #GlobalHeating.

Dr. Tao's #MEER framework turns plastic and aluminum waste as well as glass and bamboo into mirrors that can create significantly cooler temperatures, potentially saving millions from extreme heat events.

More honesty with the public can begin with professionals recognizing and ending their own cognitive dissonance. Therefore, this session ends with the declaration of a new Scholars’ Oath to the Future. This has already been endorsed by over 100 scholars from over 20 countries.
Others are welcome to add their names.

For more on Jem Bendell's work:

For more information on the Meer Framework:

Music : At the Bazaar by David Fesliyan

#cop27

[christill]

This should have been broadcast live on every news network in the world and pinned to the top of everyone’s social media feeds. But that’s in a sane world. We’re anything but sane.

[margaretbeasley]

Margaret Beasley
Thankyou, gentlemen. for the clarity of your presentation

[dagedesign]

What effect does placing mirrors to reflect the sun's heat have on the air above those mirrors.
what is the effect on water bourne bacteria after placing mirrors above bodies of water to block the UV light
I hear the phrase "return on investment" when the ideology of wealth, funding, or investment, is incomparable and incompatible with survival of life on earth. no life= no idea of "value"

[fieldandstream]

What about Technology of the ancients with anti gravity and other things?

[anonymousAJ]

"climate honesty" would be admitting that all the alarmist models have failed spectacularly over the past decades

[erajjoan]

the problem of our continuation as a species is not our ability to continue growth but to control it

[kathybehlen]

I feel at this point, anything we can try is better than bsnss as usual, esp if it addresses the dreaded McPherson paradox, which no one else seems to be addressing.. it's time for truth all around, plz.

[margaretbeasley]

So true NATURE OWNS US! not the other way around.

[saltleygates]

So we need Smoke and Mirrors
Tao is the only Ye that brings me any hope
Why is there no Inter Governmental Project investigating his ideas
If we can spend £Billions on Experimental Fusion Reactors that wont work,
Telescopes we will not be around to use
surely we can find resources to develop this technology
Almost every roof could be used to reflect some sunlight

[gregglavoie]

Very good presentation, especially the closing commitment. I am just curious why NOTHING is being said about the ANOMALY of the human explosion of population that is driving all the other problems we are creating by trying to tech our way out of all our problems. Perhaps this is the only way we would have come to see how destructive we are being as a species, but we continue to ignore the root cause(over population and continuous growth) of our all our other problems. There are simply far too many humans on the planet. How about we do something very unusual for humans. Reduce are population and watch the problems diminish, and still correct our destructive and polluting habits! So, Nature is making her effort to control a human explosion anomaly and we are going to fight her yet again by covering all bodies of water with huge mirrors made of pollution?? Why can't we just accept that Nature's job is to maintain balances and in doing so she impacts us, just like she impacts every other species to give us this amazing delicate planet to exist on. We need to start accepting Nature's balancing act and stop fighting every aspect of it. Until we accept that, we will not be moving toward a longer future on this planet.

[SixthMassExtinction]

Thank you for this truth telling session. I for one, fully appreciate it. Sadly, I feel that most of the 8 billion people on this planet will never hear it. 😢

[Interglacial_optimist]

And for the rest of cop 27 will be eating steak and scallops on the barbie

[Interglacial_optimist]

I will be hopeful when I see Guy McPherson as a character on The Simpsons talking about the loss of habitat for human animals.

[TennesseeJed]

MEER does seem to give a lot of value for the investment of all the ideas so far to reduce the amount of energy soaking into land and water.

[geofffriend]

Aerosol Masking Effect.
The biosphere is collapsing..90% plankton gone. 90% flying insects gone. Methane emissions up exponentially. Water supplies diminishing. Crop production decreasing. Loss of marine food. Multiple feedback loops in play that take this out of our hands.
We don't have time for anything other than bracing for impact.

[funkzeit]

Interesting presentation and very impressive technology.

[MikeHanauer]

Great. And if they continue to ignore overpopulation, they still contribute to our demise.

[garrygballard]

No body is serious. If we don’t force them to change nothing will ever happen. It’s the greedy that are being offensive.

[dvegule]

Mr. Guy McPherson is the one where I first heard about Mr. Tao and his Meer Reflection and more. So this also should be a small tribute to Mr. McPherson who should be sitting there as well. Unfortunately I do not believe in any improvement anymore. Look at our clueless politicians, intellectuals and all of us. As long as we want more, we are damned. As long as some countries - USA/GB and other provide wars we are damned.

[reggiebald]

The truth may be ugly, but it never hurts as much as the lies.
Thank you!