Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by omosubi on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:11PM (#24165575)

There have been calls to put sulfur dioxide into the air above the artic to reduce sunlight about 2% and limit the amount of energy that reaches it. Sounds like we'll need to do something like that if we don't want to turn places like Florida and southern Vietnam into ocean

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by dylan604 on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:40PM (#24165710)

Yes, there's exactly 0% chance that this ends badly. I don't know why the lady swallowed the dog to chase the cat to catch the bird to eat the spider...

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by omosubi on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:38AM (#24168139)

I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it's a proposed solution. We'll need to do something rather drastic if we want to have any chance of saving the world as it is today

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by jsmith12673 on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:17PM (#24165610)

For this to be effective you'll need:

- Global agreement and partnership, since you need to decrease temperature globally to make a dent

- Convince everyone that injecting aersols into the atmosphere is the only alternative to catastrophic warming (view in contrast to convincing people of the efficacy of vaccines etc.)

Both of these are incredibly challenging undertakings, even without trying to address the issue of continually acidifying oceans.

And yet, sadly I feel like this is the only most realistic option out of them all.

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Re:Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by imtringued on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:25AM (#24169526)

Goodbye blue sky!

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