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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · Sep 2

🚨 #NewResourceAlert!
We’re launching a Civil Society Toolkit on Geoengineering — a must-have guide to understanding and resisting risky geoengineering scams 🌍
🧵 Thread below ⬇️

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 1d

🪸 Drawing on insights from the physical, life, and social sciences, the discussion critically evaluated whether marine geoengineering represents a viable climate response - or a dangerous diversion from more proven and equitable solutions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT91...
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Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering

YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Action

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 1d

#ICYMI

HOME Alliance and our members were on ground at Climate Week New York.

🎦 Watch our session 'Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering' where panelists examined ecological, ethical, and geopolitical risks of marine carbon dioxide removal methods.

#NoGeoengineering

Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering

YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Action

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 9d

"Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel."
Read the story here:
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

#HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.

Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel.

www.politico.com

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 9d

Among others, the investigation also uncovers philanthro-capitalists backing this geoengineering scheme, essentially a climate scam that does nothing to address the root causes of #climatechange.

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 9d

#LongRead
An investigation by POLITICO lifts the veil on how a “pilot” marine cloud brightening experiment in California abruptly shut down when local officials discovered it had been carried out without public notice.
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 13d

📢 Read the press release here: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/pr...

#ClimateWeekNYC #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice #HandsOffMotherEarth

Press Release: As Climate Week NYC Begins, Climate Justice Groups Urge Governor Newsom to Veto Risky Geoengineering Bill - HOME Alliance

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 13d

🇺🇳 California has a responsibility to uphold international commitments under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and reject dangerous distractions.

🌿 Real climate justice remain grounded in science, precaution, and justice - not in unproven schemes that put people and the planet at risk.

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 13d

🚨 These can threaten ecosystems, creating new sacrifice zones, and diverting resources from the urgent need to cut emissions at their source.
#HandsOffMotherEarth
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 13d

🚨 SB 643 could set a dangerous precedent for climate policymaking by advancing unproven schemes like direct air capture, biomass-based carbon removal, and marine geoengineering.
@cjaourpower.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @gjep123.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social #NoGeoengineering

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 13d

As Climate Week NY kicks off, climate justice organizations, Indigenous Peoples groups, civil society networks are urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto SB 643, a bill that would funnel $50 mn in public funds toward speculative and risky Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) geoengineering schemes.

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Geoengineering Monitor @geoengmon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great article! Points out that scientists say solar geoengineering technologies could affect weather patterns, agriculture and the provision of basic needs like food and water. The impacts are poorly understood and can never be fully known. 😨

Dialogue Earth @dialogueearth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Millions in government funding are flowing to a controversial technique that proponents say will cool the planet by making clouds above the ocean more reflective. Can it be done? And should it be done?

🔗: https://loom.ly/nE84cEQ

Explainer: Could making ocean clouds shinier cool the planet?

Scientists are divided over the merits of ‘marine cloud brightening’ experiments aimed at making clouds more reflective and geoengineering the ocean

dialogue.earth

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

A Cornish community’s fight against secret geoengineering experiments in their waters.

🌊 Film Screening: Keep Our Sea Chemical Free
🗓️ Sept 25 | 11 AM–12:30 PM ET | Virtual
🎥 Trailer: youtu.be/vR-xSaPiuVQ

🔗 Register bit.ly/FilmScreeningNYCW

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

Hear directly from frontline & Indigenous leaders on grassroots resistence

🌊 Front-Line Communities Resist Marine Geoengineering
🗓️ Sept 23 | 12:30–2 PM ET
🔗 In-person: bit.ly/MarineGeoengineeringNYCW
🔗 Virtual: bit.ly/MarineGeoengineeringVirtualNYCW

#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

🌊 Uncharted Waters: Examining the Risks of Marine Geoengineering
🗓️ Sept 22 | 12–1:30 PM ET | Virtual
🔗 Register bit.ly/MarineGeoengineeringRisksVirtualNYCW
Join experts on oceanography, marine ecology, environmental social science to examine scientific, societal marine geoengineering implications

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

🌊 Join us at #ClimateWeekNYC, as HOME Alliance brings together Indigenous Peoples, climate activists & filmmakers to spotlight spotlight climate scams like marine geoengineering and the growing global resistance.
🌐 bit.ly/HOMEatNYCW25
Details below ⤵️
#NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

📚 El kit de herramientas está disponible en inglés, francés y español.
👉 Descárgalo aquí: bit.ly/SolarGEtoolk...

Una guía imprescindible para los movimientos, la sociedad civil y quienes están comprometidos con la justicia climática.
#HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

El kit muestra por qué la geoingeniería solar es una receta para el desastre:
🚨 Puede desestabilizar los sistemas climáticos.
🚨 Empeora las sequías e inundaciones.
🚨 Aumenta la injusticia climática global.
🚨 Da los contaminadores excusas para retrasar la acción real.
#HandsOffMotherEarth

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

El kit proporciona:
✅ Un análisis crítico sobre geoingeniería solar
✅ Por qué no existe tal cosa como «solo investigación»
✅ Por qué estos planes no pueden gestionarse de forma justa o segura.
✅ Información sobre el movimiento global a favor de un acuerdo de no uso de la geoingeniería solar.

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

Los planes de geoingeniería solar incluyen:
🌋 Inyección de aerosoles estratosféricos
☁️ El aclaramiento de nubes marinas
❄️ La modificación del albedo superficial
⚠️ Todas estas son distracciones peligrosas.

@foeus.bsky.social @oceancare.bsky.social
#HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

🚨 #AlertaDeNuevosRecursos
📢 ¡La Allianza HOME lanza el Kit de Herramientas de Geoingeniería Solar!
☀️ Bloquear el sol no resolverá la crisis climática.
🧵 Un hilo ⬇️

@solargeoeng.bsky.social @geoengmon.bsky.social @ciel.org @foescot.bsky.social

#HandsOffMotherEarth #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

📚 El kit de herramientas está disponible en inglés, francés y español.
👉 Descárgalo aquí: bit.ly/MarineGESpanishToolkit
Una guía imprescindible para los movimientos, la sociedad civil y quienes están comprometidos con la justicia climática.

#HandsOffMotherEarth #HandsOffOceans #NoGeoengineering

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

🌊 La geoingeniería marina ofrece a los contaminadores una vía de escape, al tiempo que amenaza los océanos, nuestro mayor aliado en la lucha contra la crisis climática. #HandsOffMotherEarth #HandsOffOceans #NoGeoengineering #ClimateJustice

@geoengmon.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social

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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

El kit te permite:
✅ Comprender por qué las comunidades se resisten a estos proyectos.
✅ Aprender sobre gobernanza y principios de precaución.
✅ Hacer un seguimiento de los proyectos en todo el mundo
✅ Abogar por la suspensión global de los experimentos marinos al aire libre.
@foeus.bsky.social

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

Los planes de geoingeniería marina incluyen:
☁️ Blanqueamiento de nubes marinas.
❄️ Modificación del hielo ártico.
💧 Fertilización oceánica.
🧪 Aumento de la alcalinidad oceánica.
🪸 Cultivo intensivo y hundimiento de algas marinas.
Entre otras distracciones peligrosas y soluciones falsas.

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17d

🚨#AlertaDeNuevosRecursos
📢 ¡La Alianza HOME lanza el Kit de Herramientas de Geoingeniería Marina!
🌊 La geoingeniería marina pone en riesgo los océanos, los ecosistemas y las comunidades costeras.
🧵 Un hilo ⬇️
#HandsOffMotherEarth #HandsOffOceans #NoGeoengineering
@cjaourpower.bsky.social @ciel.org