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The world is pretty complex - are we sure that causing less rainfall over oceans wouldn't have some weird knock on effect for the environment? Does fresh water
by munk-a 3y ago
The world is pretty complex - are we sure that causing less rainfall over oceans wouldn't have some weird knock on effect for the environment? Does fresh water falling on ocean surfaces contribute to the known stratification of salinity that allows some animals/plants/whatever to be able to survive in the top layer of water?
We have a problem: we're farming lettuce in Arizona. It feels a lot safer to just stop doing that then try to fix the issues with work arounds that might cause bigger issues.
- ImaCake 3y agoI know this isnt a great counterpoint for doing more geoengineering but; we are already massively terraforming the planet from the micro to the mesoscale. Its caused untold chaos for the biosphere already. In a very real way geoengineering is the only solution. Even reducing emissions is just us toggling in the CO2 knob.
- dwiel 3y agoI agree that we are already massively terraforming the planet, and that there is some terraforming we should stop and dinner we should do more of.