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Reflective white poles that are covered up are no longer acting in a reflecting manner. If they are not acting in a reflective manner, since they're being cover
by kreeben 6y ago
Reflective white poles that are covered up are no longer acting in a reflecting manner. If they are not acting in a reflective manner, since they're being covered up, what good are they?
In my mind, geostationary satellites with reflective properties are a solution to a symptom but not to the root cause. I was always taught to fix the root cause of problems, not their symptoms. Therefore I find your strategy to be sup optimal.
Having said that, I agree that if we find the root cause to be unsolvable, we should look into fixing some of the symptoms instead.
- graeme 6y agoThe poles would still prevent sea level rise. Or avoiding melt of the land based ice sheets would anyway. I agree with you on solving root causes. If we don’t, the oceans will acidify with co2 and there may also be bad effects from higher co2 in the air. Emerging studies show cognitive declines. That said, both of those are slower moving crises to some extent. We may face acute challenges from excess heat and changing weather patterns. So it’s possible we’ll require an emergency stopgap while we fix the underlying issues.
- legulere 6y agoYou don’t need to completely obstruct all light. Just as much as needed to keep the ice from melting. The rest is done by the high albedo.