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A firehouse flow worth of limestone slurry sprayed into the atmosphere from a plane could offset global warming, by some estimates. I wonder why this isn’t bein
by westcort 5y ago
A firehouse flow worth of limestone slurry sprayed into the atmosphere from a plane could offset global warming, by some estimates. I wonder why this isn’t being done yet.
- mistrial9 5y ago.. because some real decision makers can detect idiotic nonsense?
- westcort 5y agoHere is the research paper suggesting this unconventional approach: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/52/14910 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/52/14910
- mistrial9 5y ago> Solar Radiation Management (SRM) from Harvard College I rest my case !
- westcort 5y agoNot arguing for this approach, mind you, just that it is a low-cost approach, so I am surprised nobody has attempted it yet. I would be curious what you know about it or the researchers that leads you to be doubtful of the approach.
- mistrial9 5y agopre-modern Earth was in fact full of poisonous dust and gas in the atmosphere, for many millenia. Conditions hostile to life itself were present far longer than the recent conditions of a few hundred thousand years. of course you can block the sun with gas and dust.. isn't that famously the cause of extinctions?