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
I don’t understand how solar geoengineering is even on the table. Wouldn’it fuck up agriculture – and plant life in general – even more than it already is? Isn’t it a choice between a famine because of the climate or a famine because the sun is blocked off?
There is a fair bit of risk. Its on the table because we need to be finishing the fossil fuels phase out around now, not starting it