This is kind of a big deal — the long atmospheric lifetime of CO2 means that once started, people need to maintain the technical infrastructure for geoengineering for longer than civilizations last.
Archived copies of the article:
The paper is here
This is kind of a big deal — the long atmospheric lifetime of CO2 means that once started, people need to maintain the technical infrastructure for geoengineering for longer than civilizations last.
Archived copies of the article:
The paper is here
Solar geoengineering would alleviate the symptoms and so take pressure away from treating the root cause. And so I’d say that it would make things more expensive in the long term as the underlying illness would continue to get worse, festering under that bandaid.