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Letting off a few nukes could slow climate change a bit right? I vaguely recall that all the dust kicked up by the hundreds of tests in the 50s and 60s had an e
by morkalork 2y ago
Letting off a few nukes could slow climate change a bit right? I vaguely recall that all the dust kicked up by the hundreds of tests in the 50s and 60s had an effect.
- adrianN 2y agoIt works best if the nukes hit densely populated areas, but I hope we manage to implement the solutions to climate change that don’t require killing billions.
- sushibowl 2y agoPossibly, but you have to keep doing it. kicking up dust into the atmosphere tends to have significant short-term impact on the global climate (see e.g. volcanic winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter). Then the dust settles shortly and everything returns to normal. But volcanic eruptions that cause a winter like that tend to be quite a bit more powerful than your average nuclear weapon. More importantly, not all dust is created equal. Sulphur containing compounds tend to have the biggest cooling effect. One neat (in a terrifying sort of way) geo-engineering idea is continuously injecting large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
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- triceratops 2y agoDrop a nuke into a volcano /s
- unicornhose 2y agoMorbidly curious what would actually happen in this scenario.
- Filligree 2y agoYou’d create a lot of body thetans.