Warning and proposal
MEER warns: Without mirrors, excess heat will go up. With or without emission cuts.
MEER proposes: Emission cuts plus mirrors to bring immediate local relief, so that Earth can recover and again stabilize the climate.
10 minutes
10 minutes that might change your priorities completely. Dare or not ? MEER’s 2023 Freetown - cooling a city
Mirrors
Because they are best for reflecting sunlight before it becomes heat driving droughts, heat waves, storms, floods, cold spells, ...
Covid
When Covid cut emissions, temperatures went UP !!! (s. Chinese lockdown as aerosol reduction experiment
The #1 global threat
The best peace maker is a common threat.
"excess solar energy is equivalent to the energy released by 11 HIROSHIMA BOMBS EXPLODING EVERY SECOND"
Climate action
Essential for our combined climate action:
- For biodiversity, against misery.
- Brings immediate local relief.
- CROI (cooling return on investment) > 1000.
- We have enough material, energy, time, space to do it globally.
MEER's proposal ticks all. Any other ?
CROI
MEER's 2023 prototype for #climateAction offers CROI 2800 - 4200. (s. 29:04 in Cooling the Earth with surface-based mirrors)
Consumption cuts
The more biodiversity, the more likely someone - human or not - finds a way whatever problem comes up.
"fossil fuel energy consumption ... record high, rising by 1.5% in 2024 from 2023 ... Solar and wind ... rising 16.4% ... fossil fuel ... 31 times greater than solar and wind" link
"mineral demand ... growing at least thirty times ... Lithium ... 40 times ... graphite, cobalt and nickel ... 20-25 times" link
Mining adds misery and cuts biodiversity. Energy generation grabs land and water. We need huge energy cuts, if we really care.
More on MEER
How can mirrors help to cool the planet 2022
Solar Reflectors - Cooling the Earth with surface based mirror arrays 2023