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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by idlewords on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:59PM (#15103978)
You can't assume that a reduction in sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere means a reduction in total sunlight reaching plants on the earth's surface, because of complex feedback effects involving cloud cover.

Moreover, as multiple posts in this thread point out, sunlight is not the limiting factor in plant growth.

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