Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
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Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
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Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#2Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#3This is not new:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfate_aerosols...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/511016/a-cheap-and-easy-p...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060804-globa...
An academic friend of mine is pushing to publish a paper on this soon. It seems credible as a way to slow global warming, but there will be side effects (as there has to be with such significant modification of our environment) that are hard to predict, and probably some of those side effects could be harmful. The question is which path is the less harmful, and whether we have to risk unpredictable side effects (could be minor or large) in order to avoid global warming.
Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#4It's all pointless. Massive photovoltaic infra could have been deployed decades ago but it would have harmed wealthy interests so they injected tens of billions of dollars into disrupting and controlling the political system of the US. Putting the continuation of this civilization as we know it at risk, all for a bit of money in a single person's lifespan. And it worked. In bad moments one wonders if it's better off they succeed.
Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#5Wouldn't it be better to stop pollution and let the Earth recover on her own accord in time?
Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#6Wouldn't it be better to stop pollution and let the Earth recover on her own accord in time?
That's never going to happen. Americans will never give up their trucks. The Chinese won't give up their coal fired power plants. Developing nations won't give up slash and burn forestry programs. Why? Because we're all motivated by greed. Instead I think the solution is to make pollution expensive: some have proposed a carbon tax as one way of dealing with this. Perhaps there are other ways involving behavioral economics or something that could also be attempted.
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#7Wouldn't it be better to stop pollution and let the Earth recover on her own accord in time?
Wouldn't it be better if people in the Middle East would just get along? While we're dreaming of things that are out of reach for the time being.
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#8> That's never going to happen. Americans will never give up their trucks
I love how liberals on HN always slant any global problem as associated with Americans and/or Republicans and/or Christians.
How about all the pollution causes by China? No, instead let's attack [those merican's and thir pick ups and their dang dogs and white trash chicks too].
Re: Injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to counter global warming
#9Wouldn't it be better to stop pollution and let the Earth recover on her own accord in time?
That's never going to happen. Americans will never give up their trucks. The Chinese won't give up their coal fired power plants. Developing nations won't give up slash and burn forestry programs. Why? Because we're all motivated by greed. Instead I think the solution is to make pollution expensive: some have proposed a carbon tax as one way of dealing with this. Perhaps there are other ways involving behavioral econ…
I think you're right in that any lasting solution must come about because it's in our best short term economic interests - because, by and large, it's how we make our decisions
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#10> That's never going to happen. Americans will never give up their trucks I love how liberals on HN always slant any global problem as associated with Americans and/or Republicans and/or Christians. How about all the pollution causes by China? No, instead let's attack [those merican's and thir pick ups and their dang dogs and white trash chicks too].
with Trump's new cabinet, that would be putting it mildly