A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deployment scenario

Re:A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deploy... by mabbo on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:16AM (#32877292)

What's interesting to me is that there's nothing stopping one country from deciding to do it. Canada, USA, Russia, even Denmark (via Greenland), Finland, Norway, Sweden or any nation near the south pole.

It's a logistics problem, not a technology problem.

Just as there's no legal framework to force countries to not make the climate warmer, the same goes for cooling the climate.

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Re:A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deploy... by perihelions on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:39AM (#32877460)

Also, access to international sulfur markets.

That wouldn't be a barrier for Canada though, which has access to an unlimited supply from (ironically) its oil industry. Athabasca oil sands are somewhere around 5% sulfur, most of which gets extracted and piled up into useless pyramids (since no one is buying it).

https://www.businessinsider.com/there-are-mountains-of-sulfu...

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/05/the-great-sulphur-pyramids...

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Re:A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deploy... by mabbo on Saturday September 17, 2022 @11:52AM (#32878486)

Perfect. At long last my country will take it's rightful place as ruler of the world: we'll start a massive global cooling project and threaten to end it in a termination shock if we aren't properly compensated for it.

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Re:A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deploy... by Klaster_1 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @10:23AM (#32877738)

Neil Stephenson explores this theme in Termination Shock [1], worth a read if you are curious about the subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

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Re:A subpolar-focused stratospheric aerosol injection deploy... by curlftpfs on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:29AM (#32877382)

This idea is explored in Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. There was no stopping one crazy billionaire, let alone an entire nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

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