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> We are looking at pretty much everything from Florida to Brazil being rendered unfit for humans. That is not even remotely politically tenable though, and lo
by hyperbovine 10y ago
> We are looking at pretty much everything from Florida to Brazil being rendered unfit for humans.
That is not even remotely politically tenable though, and lots of stupid things will be attempted long before it gets to that point. Mt. Tambora deposited 50 megatons of SO2 into the upper atmosphere in 1815, and in so doing dropped the global climate by .5℃ for over a year. Such an action is well within our technological and industrial capacity. It's a terrible idea but it will definitely be attempted long before global warming depopulates 2/3rds of our inhabited range.
- lfowles 10y agoSo you're saying Yellowstone is an option... ;)
- emodendroket 10y agoI don't know about that specifically, but is there a reason why geoengineering in general is a bad idea?
- hyperbovine 10y agoWe lack even a basic understanding of many aspects of the global climate. Imagine trying to engineer a computer with a nineteenth-century knowledge of electromagnetism. The only thing we know for certain is what worked in the past.