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What should they say? “Turns out there’s a side effect we should put the sulfur back in diesel”?

• paganel 6mo ago
  Something like: What we scientifically thought was going to improve things has made them worst.
  • nielsbot 6mo ago
    Scientists are saying that tho. We’re talking about those findings rn. Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Scientists don’t own their mistakes?
  • jfengel 6mo ago
    It didn't make them worse. It solved one problem. That made the extent of the other existing problem more apparent. That was known and expected. We could not continue to put sulfur in the air; it causes acid rain. The fact that we also cannot afford to put CO2 into the air is a separate problem. That goes beyond temperature: even if additional sulfur would mitigate the temperature increase, it would also make ocean acidification worse.