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The theory goes something like. volcanoes put a geologic amount of what we would consider polluting gasses into the atmosphere. why then is there a tendency for
by somat 4y ago
The theory goes something like. volcanoes put a geologic amount of what we would consider polluting gasses into the atmosphere. why then is there a tendency for global cooling after a large volcano eruption and not global warming? The answer is that volcano plumes may emit a large amount of sulfur dioxide which has the cooling effect.
But we worked very hard to remove sulfur compounds from our fuels, after all nobody wants acid rain. What if we acted too soon, what if those same sulfur compounds would mitigate global warming, perhaps we should have left them in?
The primary problem with this action the that the sulfur is in the wrong place, too low in the atmosphere. Perhaps the solution is high sulfur jet fuel.
Personally I think that is was global engineering that got us into this mess and it will be global engineering that gets us out of it.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoBut this does not get us out the mess, it just kicks the can down the road, and if we stop kicking once, it explodes.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoSo the solution is to just do nothing and die? Because all this moral self wanking is great and all but you aren’t doing anything to fix it.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoThe solution is to hack the species, drive hooks into its behaviour and change within the limits of what can be changed, the source of the problem. Duccttapping indefinitely has never worked out. Im not an absolutist, geo-engineer away, as long as there is a realistic plan to solve the root-cause.