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Re:U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops by UnpossibleJim on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:38AM (#27811366)
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/970670565/run-the-oil-industr...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45435593

I don't disagree with where you are going, but I think there might be easier ways to geoengineer than mirroring sun directly back out into space (unless I miss my mark at what solar geoengineering is - if so, I'm sorry). I cound't find it, there's also the "plan" to release megafauna into the midwest and pay to have them "sheparded" so they become a commodity instead of a liability, creating grasslands again.

EDIT: typo

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Re:U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops by alexose on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:55AM (#27811565)
The approach really should be to do _everything_. I love the idea of reforestation, sustainable agriculture, etc., but there's a ramp-up time inherent in all of these. The advantage of solar geoenegineering is that the effects would be relatively instantaneous.
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