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No, blowing H2S and SO2 into the stratosphere is cheaper.
by jansan 3y ago
No, blowing H2S and SO2 into the stratosphere is cheaper.
- marssaxman 3y agoThe probability that this will end up happening leaves me feeling glad to be mortal.
- UncleOxidant 3y agoAs in glad you won't live long enough to see it?
- jfengel 3y agoI'm certainly glad that I won't ever have to say, "Yeah, global acid rain seems like a good answer to the problem of global warming." But only because I'll be dead, and it will be other people having to say it.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoWait? Is someone really planning to do it? I just read 'Termination Shock' and it was big plot point. Didn't think anybody would really do it.
- marssaxman 3y agoI don't know of any such plans, but it seems unlikely that global industrial civilization will reduce its CO2 emissions anytime soon, which means that very hard times are coming for billions of people's children. Someone will be desperate enough to try it.
- jansan 3y agoI do not understand this logic. Only because something has a certain probability of happening makes you glad to be mortal? If you could choose now between being mortal and immortal, would you choose mortality because there is a certain probability that SO2 and H2S will be blown into the stratosphere? BTW, I am not advocating this approach. I just wanted to answer the question in the headline which can only be a clear "No".
- marssaxman 3y agoThe increasing probability that humanity will become desperate enough to stave off climate change by pumping sulfur into the atmosphere follows from our ongoing failure to stop pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It's going to be a hell of a mess, and I do not envy the people who will have to deal with it.
- cpeterso 3y agoThat's the plot of Neal Stephenson's 2021 novel "Termination Shock": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
- mordymoop 3y agoSo many different cheap, easy options to at least partly remedy the problem and possibly reverse it, but the only possibility seriously discussed is a civilization-destroying and politically unrealistic austerity.