> Eventually someone will start solar radiation management, and we'll plod along like we always do.

I'm fairly certain that doesn't do a thing for ocean acidification...

I didn't say it was a whole-assed solution.

Geo engineering solutions have been proposed for a while. They were particularly popular in the public imagination back when there was fear of a new ice age. They are less popular now given the belief that there is something we can do to change our CO2 emissions.

I suspect the next major climate conference will include discussion on this topic given the present effects of global warming and our inability to control carbon emissions in any region for the last 30 years.

The US and most of Western Europe use less energy per capita than they did 20 years ago.

Not any sort of solution.

CO2 polluters would just pump out enough more that they would make no difference. But stopping them after that would be disastrous.