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I would be happier if nobody did these kind of experiments. I have the feeling that playing with the weather may be our last and most stupid failure. Doesn't ha
by fileeditview 5y ago
I would be happier if nobody did these kind of experiments. I have the feeling that playing with the weather may be our last and most stupid failure. Doesn't have to have crazy consequences after the first, second or third time. But at some point it will just turn everything to sh*t.
- adrianN 5y agoHumans have been playing with the weather ever since we started cutting/burning down forests faster than they can grow back.
- DemocracyFTW 5y agoThat doesn't read like an endorsement of planned geoengineering.
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoAdrianN was responding to a comment about "crazy consequences" to messing with the weather. His point was that thus far there haven't been any, despite centuries of human-driven weather changes.
- DemocracyFTW 5y ago> thus far there haven't been any [crazy consequences], despite centuries of human-driven weather changes. which obviously is not true, right?
- adrianN 5y agoThe only type of geoengineering I would endorse without much hesitation is sucking CO2 back out of the atmosphere. But I don't think that the weather system is sensitive enough that we can't try nudging it with measures that are easy to stop and whose effects only last a couple of years (e.g. injection sulphur into the atmosphere).