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Mr Sacca can go all out and invest all his savings into solar energy research, or become a scientist and research this.

“We’re facing an existential threat, and we need to look at all the options,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School and editor of a book on the technology and its legal implications. “I liken geoengineering to chemotherapy for the planet: If all else is failing, you try it.”

Onvacation says

“We’re facing an existential threat, and we need to look at all the options,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School and editor of a book on the technology and its legal implications. “I liken geoengineering to chemotherapy for the planet: If all else is failing, you try it.”

all of these idiots are against CARBON NEUTRAL and commercially reasonably successful nuclear. I wonder why? Perhaps there is less money in it for them - so we get back to obvious that it is not for saving the planet, it is filling pockets for these pseudo-greenies

Actually this is a sign that greenies might actually be getting serious about curbing global warming. Before it was all about moving money around and lining lawyer pockets. Now they’re actually thinking about strategies for planetary cooling! Of course they’re going with the least practical and least effective and most cost-intensive methods, but as Dbr6 pointed out, those are the methods that they can grift the most from.

Sounds like the guy might be a wee bit biased.

Wanna get rid of Co2, plant a tree, it's not that hard.

Onvacation says

climate interventions like sunlight reflection now

Right. And what happens if these fuckers miscalculate and instead of "desirable 1 degree cooling" usher a new Mini Ice Age with crop failures, famines, mass extinctions and such? Playing God is fun and games until....

FuckCCP89 says

Onvacation says

climate interventions like sunlight reflection now

Right. And what happens if these fuckers miscalculate and instead of "desirable 1 degree cooling" usher a new Mini Ice Age with crop failures, famines, mass extinctions and such? Playing God is fun and games until....

Have no fear of that. There is nothing we can do to reflect any significant amount of light back into space. One good snowstorm blankets many square miles with a reflecting white that we could not match with all the mirrors on Earth.

HeadSet says

There is nothing we can do to reflect any significant amount of light back into space.

Funny you should mention that (from Nature): The new materials reflect a broad spectrum of light, in much the same way as mirrors or white paint do. In the crucial 8–13-µm part of the infrared spectrum, however, they strongly absorb and then emit radiation. When the materials point at the sky, the infrared rays can pass straight through the atmosphere and into space. That effectively links the materials to an inexhaustible heat sink, into which they can keep dumping heat without it coming back.

EBGuy says

HeadSet says

There is nothing we can do to reflect any significant amount of light back into space.

Funny you should mention that (from Nature): The new materials reflect a broad spectrum of light, in much the same way as mirrors or white paint do. In the crucial 8–13-µm part of the infrared spectrum, however, they strongly absorb and then emit radiation. When the materials point at the sky, the infrared rays can pass straight through the atmosphere and into space. That effectively links the materials to an inexhaustible heat sink, into which they can keep dumping heat without it coming back.

Even if you had a perfect reflecting surface, it would takes hundreds of square miles of it to equal what one major snow fall would do. A single full moon at night would likely make up for all that reflected light anyway.