C. Carbon reductions alone are not enough and too slow to solve the biggest impacts to warming- geoengineering is key

(Greg , Geo-Engineering: The Climate Change Solution COP26 Ignores". 11-11-2021. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/11/11/geo-engineering_the_climate_change_solution_cop26_ignores.html)

In August, the physical science working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its most recent report. The IPCC was founded in 1988 and released its first comprehensive report on climate change in 1990. The August report is part of the sixth such assessment. As with prior findings, the news is grim. Our planet is heating up faster than we expected. The window for addressing the most cataclysmic effects of climate change is closing rapidly. We didn’t need another IPCC report to tell us what news reports from every corner of the globe are telling us daily. Just as we didn’t need another United Nations summit—Glasgow is the 26th. Our climate is changing before our very eyes—in dramatic and destructive ways. Not long before the pandemic and the 2020 election pushed them off Page One, fires in Australia and the Amazon were spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, highlighting one of the most insidious aspects of climate change – a vicious cycle whereby weather-driven events like fires end up reinforcing our cycle of warming by adding to emissions. The 2021 hurricane season continued the recent trend of starting earlier, generating more storms, and causing more damage. This was the fourth-costliest hurricane season on record. The other top three have all occurred in the last decade. This summer, extreme weather in Germany created mudslides that wiped away towns that had existed for centuries. In the Middle East, temperatures soared in excess of 125 degrees. And last month, almost 30 inches of rain fell just south of Milan, Italy over a 12-hour span – the highest rainfall amount ever recorded in Europe over that period of time. As difficult as these last couple of years have been, they pale in comparison to where we are headed. Extreme weather events will threaten food supplies leading to mass migrations of people and wars over food and water. Rising sea levels will threaten the homes of some 300 million people by 2050. The damage to property, loss of tax base, and the costs of relocation will measure in the trillions of dollars. Increases in respiratory disease, premature deaths, and infectious disease migration will take a toll on public health. All of this will be accelerated if we cross the point of no-return – the thawing of the permafrost. The permafrost is land mass that remains permanently frozen and stores over 1,400 gigatons of greenhouse gases – the vast majority of which will be released into the atmosphere if the permafrost thaws. It covers roughly 11% of the earth’s landmass, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere – in countries like Greenland, Canada, and Russia. Progressive Opposition to Saving the Earth None of this is inevitable. But avoiding the most damaging effects of climate change will require us to embrace a strategy that goes beyond eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. Geo-engineering, an approach that has been around for decades, must be part of the plan.