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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' by cwkoss on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:32PM (#28120466)
Superlatively, humans have the capacity to instantly stop global warming by causing a nuclear winter. We already have the capability of kicking up enough dust that surface temperatures drop a dangerous amount.

We shouldn't do this, but humans can certainly do things much faster than "leave the earth alone for 50k years"

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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' by robomartin on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:23PM (#28124593)
> Superlatively, humans have the capacity to instantly stop global warming by causing a nuclear winter. We already have the capability of kicking up enough dust that surface temperatures drop a dangerous amount.

Who's talking about global warming? This is about atmospheric CO2 concentration. It is related, yes, but reality isn't a single variable problem.

Stop global warming using a nuclear winter? Sure, that's a solution. And kill everything on the planet in the process. Brilliant.

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