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> Distracting from that effort makes things worse. I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control
by civilized 4y ago
> Distracting from that effort makes things worse.
I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale.
Civilizations are always doing tons of different things. Most of those things aren't competing with one another for people or resources. They're just happening simultaneously.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
And don't you want to know how difficult this will be before immediately shutting it down? Isn't that a critical consideration?
- worik 4y ago> I see no evidence or reason to believe that an effort to reduce solar irradiance distracts from the control of greenhouse gases on a civilizational scale. Then you are not paying attention. We need to shut these liars down and stop thinking that we can make huge changes to complex systems that we do not understand and have predictable results, let alone good results
- civilized 4y agoHow do you leap to "these liars"? What gives you the epistemic right to dismiss a proposal not on its scientific merits, but on some assumption about the certain moral evil of the people who said it?
- ncmncm 4y agoClever trolling is still trolling.
- civilized 4y agoI'm afraid you are trapped in unfounded absolute certainty and are no longer in touch with the world. You've lost the distinction between reality and the contents of your own mind. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/trapped-priors-as-a-ba...
- worik 4y ago> How do you leap to "these liars"? To assert that it is possible using engineering to have predictable control over a system that we only have the barest understanding of (Earth's geophysical systems) is a straight up lie. That is where. Greed. Hubris. Burn the world.
- civilized 4y agoBy that logic, there is no point in doing anything at all. Who knows whether we can avoid burning by stopping CO2 emissions? It's all too complex! You can't separate the scientists whose models told you to reduce CO2 and the scientists who propose reducing solar irradiance with bubble shades. They're all using the same equations to predict what will happen.