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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Yeah but the nice thing about a book is that they attempt to unify a bunch of disparate things. I still like reading books for background but agree that articles/interviews essential for better/up to date info. If you get good book rec lmk. :)
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It's more than that. For complex systems, it is a mistake I think to consider articles/papers as "staying up to date" in the sense of adding diffs and updates to an established foundation that's secure. Books create a false sense of security that the foundation is established
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Also I should mention that I don't actually believe anything...and that's almost hyperbole. ;) Knowledge/truth is just placeholders needed for the rough draft of the model. Everything is replaceable. Only omniscient entity really knows what's True. Also: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law …
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This is very wise of you 
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