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We replaced horse manure as a waste product with greenhouse gases, which produced a local improvement but will very likely put large portions of New York City u

We replaced horse manure as a waste product with greenhouse gases, which produced a local improvement but will very likely put large portions of New York City under water in this century. So based on the evidence accumulated so far, we haven’t demonstrated that we can find our way out of the resource/pollution dilemma. Maybe we will in the future!

parkingrift 4y ago
We already know how to find our way out. Stratospheric aerosol injection. We don’t need to invent anything new or spend significant sums of money. We will do it eventually, but only after green democrats finish their “perfect is the enemy of good” lifetime crusade.
- AlexandrB 4y ago
  "Know" is doing a lot of work here. > Almost all work to date on stratospheric sulfate injection has been limited to modeling and laboratory work.[1] At best it seems like a good potential solution that need a lot more study. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
  - comprambler 4y ago
    In chatting with someone in the oil industry, he said humanity was undergoing its largest accidental geo-engineering exercise via sulphur containing heavy oil being burnt on ships. Somewhat recently high sulphur content was banned from heavy oil and we stopped that experiment. https://clearseas.org/en/blog/marine-fuels-what-is-heavy-fuel-oil/ https://clearseas.org/en/blog/marine-fuels-what-is-heavy-fue...
    - klyrs 4y ago
      For some reason, people really seem to hate it when the rain is sulphuric acid. Also, plants. The experiment ended because of the harms it caused.
  - parkingrift 4y ago
    We need not wonder. Nature has already given us a trial run. All this brouhaha over unintended consequences are going to ultimately be secondary to the known and catastrophic consequences of runaway global warming.

parkingrift 4y ago

We already know how to find our way out. Stratospheric aerosol injection. We don’t need to invent anything new or spend significant sums of money. We will do it eventually, but only after green democrats finish their “perfect is the enemy of good” lifetime crusade.

AlexandrB 4y ago
"Know" is doing a lot of work here. > Almost all work to date on stratospheric sulfate injection has been limited to modeling and laboratory work.[1] At best it seems like a good potential solution that need a lot more study. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
- comprambler 4y ago
  In chatting with someone in the oil industry, he said humanity was undergoing its largest accidental geo-engineering exercise via sulphur containing heavy oil being burnt on ships. Somewhat recently high sulphur content was banned from heavy oil and we stopped that experiment. https://clearseas.org/en/blog/marine-fuels-what-is-heavy-fuel-oil/ https://clearseas.org/en/blog/marine-fuels-what-is-heavy-fue...
  - klyrs 4y ago
    For some reason, people really seem to hate it when the rain is sulphuric acid. Also, plants. The experiment ended because of the harms it caused.
- parkingrift 4y ago
  We need not wonder. Nature has already given us a trial run. All this brouhaha over unintended consequences are going to ultimately be secondary to the known and catastrophic consequences of runaway global warming.