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Can we try to reproduce Nuclear Winter in case of runaway global warming? Seems that we do have the emergency brake here. Won't even take nuclear weapons - intr
by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Can we try to reproduce Nuclear Winter in case of runaway global warming? Seems that we do have the emergency brake here. Won't even take nuclear weapons - introducing soot into higher layers of atmosphere doesn't seem to hard.
However, this will decrease carbon dioxide consumption by plants and might allow unsafe buildup in the atmosphere.
- eksemplar 10y agoProbably not a lot, but a fallout game set in a lush and/or winter landscape would be awesome.
- humanrebar 10y agoThere is a school of thought that suggests that if we've already hit the climate change tipping point, we should put more efforts at this sort of terraforming-type approach instead of playing the long game by slowly curbing emissions.
- arethuza 10y agoWe could call it "Operation Dark Storm"...
- doikor 10y agoHow do you make the soot stay in the higher layers? Soot partly is a problem now. It lands on the ice/snow and makes the ice melt much faster (due to being black/brown)
- im3w1l 10y agoHow much would reduced solar flux screw with plants? Could the natural ecosystems take it? Would our harvests shrink?
- wmeredith 10y agoSnowpiercer has a pretty, uh, critical take on going this route. (It's also highly factionalized, not hard sci-if by any means.)
- adrianN 10y agoI think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(geoengineering) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_mirror_(geoengineering) would be safer, because we could take it down more easily than a dust cloud in case in has unexpected side-effects.