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On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management – Bert Hubert's Writings
- pabs3 3y agoThe “Solar Radiation Management” section reminds me of the plot of Snowpiercer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Piercer#Plot
- myshpa 3y agoIt's incredibly stupid and shortsighted to ignore obvious solutions and instead keep looking for shortcuts that could easily make things much worse, just to keep those profits up.
- thefurdrake 3y ago> [of sulfur-based radiation management] As of 2023, it is estimated that the cost of doing so would average out to a few billion dollars/euros per year. This is in the range of "Possible for an eccentric billionare" to accomplish, right? Or a single determined, mid-sized country? ... could it be scaled up and cool things down too far, say by an angry world leader? I didn't realize the cost of it was only in the order of billions.
- myshpa 3y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-ways-to-fix-the-earth-are-they-magic-bullets-or-just-band-aids https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-... Dismissing SRM technology, Prof Joeri Rogelj of Imperial College, London, called it “irresponsible, dangerous and a threat to the manageability” of our survival, saying: “It is not a solution but an extremely dangerous band-aid that covers up the global warming problem without healing it, creating a false and unwarranted sense of climate safety while the core of the problem continues to fester.”
- thefurdrake 3y agoThis doesn't address anything I said.
- myshpa 3y agoYou're right :)