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Could this be leveraged to mitigate climate change?

• burkaman 3y ago
  Maybe? Apparently if we blanket the Sahara with solar it could actually increase cloud cover and reduce solar potential in a lot of the rest of the world: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01117-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01117-5. I guess my answer is no, it would literally cause the climate to change so by definition that's not mitigating climate change. It would be a form of geoengineering, which is sort of its own category separate from mitigation, which refers to action that reduces change.
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• edgyquant 3y ago
  Any mega engineering like this will have large scale effects on climate and/or ecology