This is a very nice op-ed on climate that points out two obvious things on one else talks about: the heating will get worse no matter how much we cut emissions, and geoengineering (messing with the atmosphere to reflect sunlight) will become more appealinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-geoengineering.html …
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You can mess with the atmosphere to achieve temporary cooling the old-fashioned way (try to blow up a stratovolcano) or in a number of new ways. But the key point is that unlike cutting emissions, it's not a collective action problem. One country can say "fuck it" and go it alone
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The author of this piece is an enthusiast. I'm Slavic and tend to think that massive geoengineering stunts are a way to discover even worse unintended consequences in real time. But the author and I can both agree that this option will grow to dominate the conversation on climate
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If you liked Elon Musk sending up a constellation of satellites to ruin terrestrial astronomy, wait until Elon Musk (or his non-union Mexican equivalent) funds a fleet of planes to spray megatons of sulfur into the stratosphere or seed international waters to get a plankton bloom
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This is one reason I'm so exasperated with the "climate emergency" sophistry that suggests we can still get back to normal if we all agree to eat our metaphorical vegetables. We can't, and dishonesty about it creates room for big YOLO terraforming projects without accountability
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Lots of fairly recent proof of concept that injecting sulfur bigly into the high atmosphere cools the planet. But again, you want decisions on this made by the United World Government and not some plutocrat worried about the ocean eating his beach househttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter …
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My own best case is that nature does us a solid and blows up a volcano or two, giving us a few more years to coordinate on global decarbonization. Or maybe does us a real favor and blows up a megavolcano, solving the problem more directly. The survivors can use all oil they want!
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Small nuclear conflagration between India and Pakistan could do the same work.
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Lots of room for creative solutions here!
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