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  • scld 16 hours ago

    Aerosol injection is only a reasonable solution if you believe that temperature increase is the only drawback of additional CO2 in the atmosphere.

    The oceans will continue to soak it all up as we inject temp-balancing aerosols.

    • ACCount37 13 hours ago

      It is the primary drawback. The main issue was always the thermal effects, and it's not even close.

      • whatwhaaaaat 11 hours ago

        Are you a climate scientist? Do you have any understanding of how co2 lowers alkalinity in a solution or what impacts that might have on the planet? It seems sort sighted to say “it’s not even close”

  • siffin 17 hours ago

    I don't think it's the environmentalists stopping atmospheric tampering, it's other things like the economics of it, or some countries being very against it.

    Geoengineers have talked seriously about this for a long time, but it's a mostly a political issue, then who actually wants to pay to do the science and pay for the outcomes, when you've got no real idea who will get destroyed in the long run.

    Is Europe going to help fund it, with a consequence being they have less rainfall? Nobody really knows, so no one really wants to pay to do it at scale, forever.

  • titzer 18 hours ago

    Right. Like one thing that cancer needs is oxygen. So if we stop breathing (instead of laboriously stopping smoking--that's hard), then we can slow down cancer.

    • toxik 15 hours ago

      I sense you were trying to make a different point than what you made. Cancer _is_ treated in that way, that is basically how chemo works.

      • titzer 7 hours ago

        Whoosh. No, chemotherapy is not the same as holding your breath, and no, most cancer drugs don't have anything to do with oxygen, except the (unwanted) side effect that they can lower red blood cell count, causing anemia and low oxygen levels.

  • Fricken 18 hours ago

    The whole developed world is self-sabotaging. Environmentalists are just the messengers.

  • tomrod 12 hours ago

    Injection also isn't guaranteed to help. Adding clouds temporarily doesn't decrease co2 in the atmosphere.

sMarsIntruder 16 hours ago

Dear downvoter, please tell me what you didn’t like about my comment because I cannot make any sense of it.

  • potato3732842 13 hours ago

    Gotta love when the mods reset an article and a comment that's mildly popular with the weekday crowd goes to shit.