Alameda City Council unanimously blocks climate change project from resuming

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At the meeting, Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft expressed her disappointment that she learned about the experiment by reading the news and derided a lack of transparency.

Cloud Aerosol Research Instrument on the flight deck of the USS Hornet Museum on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Alameda, Calif Alameda’s City Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to bar a climate change-related experiment on the deck of the USS Hornet from resuming, despite an earlier report that found that the project posed no health or safety risks to local residents or wildlife.

“There are so many different competing considerations we need to take into effect, and I don’t feel that you’ve made your case,” Ashcraft said after representatives from the city and experiment presented. “I don’t have a huge burning desire to be on the cutting edge of everything.” The mayor emphasized that Alameda supports climate change research, especially as an island, but pointed to testimonies from scientists at the meeting expressing concern that geoengineering projects could have unintended consequences across the globe.

“The opportunity to undertake this research in a fully open and transparent way at a site like the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum is unparalleled in its potential to increase access and equitable engagement for all people, and especially for Indigenous Peoples and other vulnerable and underserved communities,” Doherty, Wood and Wanser added.

The Hornet is slated to lose the $100,000 in income it was estimated to receive as part of the partnership with the experiment in addition to the cost of cancelled rentals and other costs, according to the

 

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