Re:Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
by tobib on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:13PM
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Have you learned nothing from the movie "Snowpiercer"?
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Re:Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
by jnwatson on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:27PM
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The silly dystopian arguments against climate engineering are facile.
Do you think the first attempt will be done at global scale? No, it will be done first at small scale, and then larger and larger.
There is no reasonable scenario in which we would be surprised by the impact of climate engineering.
Re:Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
by dr_dshiv on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:54PM
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Especially when using techniques like marine cloud brightening.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
Imagine if cruise ships and cargo ships had snow machine jets on the back, lofting prepped salt water into the air, to seed clouds.
The problem is that this is geoengineering which means career suicide for interested scientists. At the moment.
Re:Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
by tobib on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:39PM
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Not that I was serious in any way. But since we're talking about it, I am not convinced that our societies are able to coordinate an effort like that on a scale that would make a difference to the global climate.
Maybe I'm unaware of relevant history, maybe I'm being too cynical.