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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:52AM (#34160932)
The process is supposed to be entirely reversible. So maybe not so awful awful
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by sofixa on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:55AM (#34160947)
Supposed to be. And what's the plan B if it turns out it isn't?
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @08:58AM (#34160981)
Who cares? We are all going to die from climate change in 12 years anyway, right? But seriously, the experiment is highly localised for now
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by sofixa on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:55AM (#34161521)
Climate is never localised, everything is highly interdependent. Volcano eruptions in Indonesia have caused mass famines in Europe, for instance.

> We are all going to die from climate change in 12 years anyway, right

We aren't there yet, that we know of.

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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by AzzieElbab on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:22AM (#34161843)
Their entire profitability model is based on being able to control where those artificial clouds stay. Large volcano eruptions were always global events, this isn’t
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Re:Rogue geoengineering startup attempts to affect atmospher... by jonathankoren on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:04AM (#34169728)
Are you honestly holding up a profitability model by a failson as superior to climate models by actual climate scientists?
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