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> [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
by 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 :)