SAIs is as simple as running some barges back and forth across the ocean where they spray and the aerosolized water reflects light. It's not all that technical. The amount of energy we're talking about with global weather systems is not something technology can produce without sending shockwaves around the planet. Best engineering can do is fuck around and find out.
The greenhouse gas thing is pseudo bullshit. Physicists have finally bothered to weigh in on this and have pointed out that each particle of a given gas has a thermal capacity according to its properties at a given point in the Earth's gravitational field. At our current atmospheric composition, we're at or near the saturation point for our composition's thermal capacity. The blanket is as warm as it will get and it we'd need something more Venus-like to hit those nightmare Venus-like scenarios.
Things can only get incrementally worse in minor ways with greenhouse gases. We've caught up with our carbon up to the pre-industrial era and have accounted for forest fires and most of the methane in Siberia.
What we did was warm up fast in geological terms and the tempest in the teapot needs more time than people currently alive have to settle down. We should be focusing on mitigation, decentralized supply chains, emergency responses, and how to deal with same-nation refugee situations.
What they'll never say is that cooling down the planet by sequestering gases and reducing the thermal capacity of the blanket is also a tempest in a teapot situation and the instability will be the same for a similarly long period.
SAIs is as simple as running some barges back and forth across the ocean where they spray and the aerosolized water reflects light. It's not all that technical. The amount of energy we're talking about with global weather systems is not something technology can produce without sending shockwaves around the planet. Best engineering can do is fuck around and find out.
The greenhouse gas thing is pseudo bullshit. Physicists have finally bothered to weigh in on this and have pointed out that each particle of a given gas has a thermal capacity according to its properties at a given point in the Earth's gravitational field. At our current atmospheric composition, we're at or near the saturation point for our composition's thermal capacity. The blanket is as warm as it will get and it we'd need something more Venus-like to hit those nightmare Venus-like scenarios.
Things can only get incrementally worse in minor ways with greenhouse gases. We've caught up with our carbon up to the pre-industrial era and have accounted for forest fires and most of the methane in Siberia.
What we did was warm up fast in geological terms and the tempest in the teapot needs more time than people currently alive have to settle down. We should be focusing on mitigation, decentralized supply chains, emergency responses, and how to deal with same-nation refugee situations.
What they'll never say is that cooling down the planet by sequestering gases and reducing the thermal capacity of the blanket is also a tempest in a teapot situation and the instability will be the same for a similarly long period.