Submitted by Rear-gunner t3_1085n05 in Futurology
UniversalMomentum t1_j3r5cex wrote
Solar Blocking is probably going to be necessary so just get off your high horses and figure out the best way to pull it off. Particulate based blocking is just one option and sulfur is only one option of those options, either way you probably have no choice but to figure out how to block out a fraction of sunlight and we know volcanos can do it rather easily and without huge consequences compared to 3-4C increase by 2100 and mass drought and loss of fresh water supplies.
The fears around solar blocking are unfounded BS compared to the daily destruction of the biosphere, so lets stop pretending known volcanic cooling events are some dire threat to the ozone layer. We know they aren't or humanity would be dead long ago.
Maybe you can pick a better particle, maybe you do space based solar blocking, but you're not going to get out of this with just emissions reduction and pretty much every model that isn't 100% wishful thinking says that.
They've add Co2 removal to some models, but that just doesn't have much impact compared to solar blocking because you can't load EVERYTHING up on just adjust CO2 levels and have anywhere near as much control as lowering CO2 and adjusting energy input into the CO2 insulation layer.
For long term human survivability you have control the climate. You can't just let the natural cycles play out or most/all of humanity has to die off and that's with or without human pollution/industrialization.
The peak of every Interglacial Period is naturally too warm for modern humans and that would naturally be followed by a geologically huge and rapid drop in temps to kick off the Glacial Period. The planet definitely wants to kill us all just like it killed 99% of the life before us. Just reducing and hoping for the best is not a real plan when the stakes are this high.
You need to treat this more like a giant meteor headed toward Earth with the mindset that you may as well try whatever the fuck you possibly can before it hits... not this BS where you preach doomsday for the planet but then solar blocking is too risky.
You can't preach doomsday constantly about global warming AND also hold the position that solar blocking is too risky and reduction and minimalism is the only option. That's more like you just gave up before you even tried.
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