Weren’t they just discussing blocking out the sun…?
The TL;DR is that they don’t want random organizations to try to geoengineer when we still are not sure about unintended consequences
The article talks about a start up company trying to reflect the sun
Funny, I was just reading The Ministry for the Future…
TLDR: It’s going to be seriously discussed as adaptation measure as soon as we recognize that the situation is beyond repair.
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Sorry, I meant seriously being considered.
This time I’m not on the same side with the EU, I think that an experiment won’t hurt anything. If it doesn’t work, we’ll know that this is not the right way, but if does, we might have new tool for managing climate change.
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Examples from the past/present:
- lead in gasoline and paint
- fluorocarbons in refrigerants / ozone depletion
- microplastic/fluorocarbons that decay too slow (ongoing debate)
Oh I forgot radioactive paint
Fine dust released by - among other things - car tires is another one.
The experiment would require very few amount of chemicals (~1Kg) that aren’t dangerous to humans. It would have nearly zero impact overall.
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