Soros: Only artificial clouds can save the climate

Projects to combat and adapt to climate change are “important but not enough”. Rather, it is important to stop the melting of the polar ice, because without it global warming would increase enormously, Soros said in a speech on Thursday evening on the eve of the Munich security conference.

The reason for this is the albedo effect known from everyday life: light surfaces heat up much less than dark ones. Greenland’s ice, for example, needs to be protected accordingly, because it reflects, rather than absorbs, sunlight, according to Soros. This should be made possible by artificially creating the albedo effect in the atmosphere.

Immeasurable damage is imminent
Soros sees such an intervention as inevitable because the region above the Arctic Circle is already warming four times faster than the rest of the world. If current trends continue, global temperatures will rise by 2.5 degrees by 2070, leading to the melting of Arctic permafrost and a sea level rise of seven metres. This will cause “immeasurable damage”. Because the arctic climate determines that of the whole world, it urgently needs to be “restabilised”.

With his proposal, Soros joins considerations to slow global warming by artificially shielding the planet. Soros also warned in his speech that accelerating climate change could lead to “massive migration, for which the world is ill-prepared.”

In this regard, he also criticized global financial institutions such as the World Bank, which should make climate change their priority. If this does not happen, world civilization will be in grave danger as rising temperatures will “make large parts of the world practically uninhabitable”.