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Re:What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been? by parkingrift on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:23AM (#30260328)
I feel pretty confident we'll get to the level of desperation needed to act on this comically cheap and effective stop-gap.
Re:What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been? by jessaustin on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:02PM (#30262875)
I'm not so sure. People who run the world DGAF about Kiribati or whatever. Rather, they really like mysterious and complicated schemes for transferring resources to themselves. E.g., all of USA's stupid wars. Also e.g. delayed availability in USA of covid antigen testing. Or also e.g., "carbon capture". "Every crisis is an opportunity."

Just look at the BS they excrete whenever they're forced to address albedo modification at all. [0] "Albedo modification is cheaper and actually possible, but if we do it rather than this much more expensive and totally ineffective thing then we'll have to keep doing it until we can figure out how to emit less carbon, which will never happen so just give us all the money while the world cooks." I'm paraphrasing but that's just because they don't want to publish anything so explicitly embarrassing to humanity.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-na...