I’m slowly sidling into the albedo alteration camp
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Artificial clouds like control burns. Before we turn into Venus and all that’s left of us is some phosphine farts.
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Funny how we’re inching closer to simply rolling the dice on the natural stability band of earth. I don’t think we’ll end up in runaway global warming a la Venus, but I suspect it will only take a far smaller thermal hiccup to wipe most life out.
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Somewhat embarrassed to admit only climate book I've read was by Nigel Calder (famous for writing books on boat engine maintenance), written in the 1970s. My takeaway was that warming leads to change in ocean currents which unexpectedly leads to massive cooling at the poles. 1/2
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That's one more than I have. I think it's a good thing. Climate stuff moves too fast and is too complex to rely on books. I think it's actually better to rely on a varied mix of articles and papers because book writers have a tendency to go hedgehog like they have The Answer.
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In general, despite being an engineer myself, I don't trust engineers to think about this stuff correctly. They have a tendency to latch on to one Grand Unified Theory and One Total Solution. Works for say boat engines, but not for complex overdetermined systems.
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Agree. Got interested in weather when I learned how to sail in 2006, that book was probably recommended to me by a crewmate (don't remember how I acquired it). Also while not a climate change denier, I do think the mechanisms are complex, I'm generally irritated by pop discourse.

