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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by lagadu on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:33PM (#15106709)
You're criticizing that solution based on the name instead of based on its flaws and then you proceed to make absolutely baseless claims like the one about the acid rain, which completely disregard that the amount of sulphites needed is far less than what we already dump into the atmosphere on a yearly basis.

Please do more research before stooping down to sensationalism and fear-mongering.

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Re:Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near t... by hwillis on Saturday August 26, 2017 @02:47PM (#15106783)
> which completely disregard that the amount of sulphites needed is far less than what we already dump into the atmosphere on a yearly basis.

Nonsense. The cooling is less effective at higher altitudes, and all the sulfate currently in the atmosphere provides a forced cooling of .4 W/m^2 vs the greenhouse gas warming of 2.4 W/m^2. The cooling relies on atmospheric water which decreases the higher you go.

We would need to dump way, way more sulfates/sulfites into the air than we do currently.

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