How interesting that a bunch of tech nutcases now want to geoengineer the planet by dispersing sulphur into the stratosphere to dim the sun to 'tackle' climate change. Mind-blowing stupidity.
(I'm not sure I have been guilty of 'fulmination' though :) )
Happy New year.
Intentional, careful geoengineering is the only real chance we have of holding back climate change. Human societies simply will not be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to roll back climate change solely by reducing emissions.
A combination of politically acceptable emission cuts, geoengineering, and acceptance of/adaptation to higher temperatures and their consequences is the only possible outcome in the real world. So hold back on the knee-jerk reactions to geoengineering and take it seriously.
The real sticking point would be that some countries would not want the cooling. Russia, say.
We'll just see how it goes...
Are you serious?
Are YOU serious?
Ya'know what... go right ahead and try to terraform the Earth to whatever you think is... best.
Your doomsday prediction may then come true actually. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
God speed in making your artificial ice age.
Oh good grief. Are you getting your position here from Snowpiercer?
Your position is to try to simulate a volcano to cool the Earth and "let's just see how it goes".
Ignoring the fact if we do that, then a natural volcano could go off as well and set us over the edge, causing an ice age.
Sure you can hand wave away the repercussions pointing to a movie, but it's still your stupid suggestion.
And what retarded logic that is, just because Armageddon is a movie doesn't mean asteroids aren't a threat.
We may change the climate in our entire history as much as a super volcano does, or many times less.