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The thing about solar geoengineering is that, if you stop spraying, the particles settle in a matter of years and we're back to +1.5C again. I'm tempted to say
by kmeisthax 4y ago
The thing about solar geoengineering is that, if you stop spraying, the particles settle in a matter of years and we're back to +1.5C again. I'm tempted to say that the possibility of an overshoot is nigh-impossible; but it's more the case that it's quickly reversed because we're still fighting uphill against all the heat we trapped under a blanket of carbon.
- pencilguin 4y agoNot just back to +1.5C, but to where you would have been by that time. Meanwhile, the whole ocean ecosystem has collapsed as acidification continued on up. The primary protein source of a billion+ people has vanished. They do not starve quietly.