Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last...
by morkalork on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:31AM
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Letting off a few nukes could slow climate change a bit right? I vaguely recall that all the dust kicked up by the hundreds of tests in the 50s and 60s had an effect.
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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last...
by sushibowl on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:54AM
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Possibly, but you have to keep doing it. kicking up dust into the atmosphere tends to have significant short-term impact on the global climate (see e.g. volcanic winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter). Then the dust settles shortly and everything returns to normal.
But volcanic eruptions that cause a winter like that tend to be quite a bit more powerful than your average nuclear weapon. More importantly, not all dust is created equal. Sulphur containing compounds tend to have the biggest cooling effect. One neat (in a terrifying sort of way) geo-engineering idea is continuously injecting large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last...
by triceratops on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:27AM
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Drop a nuke into a volcano /s
Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last...
by unicornhose on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:44AM
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Morbidly curious what would actually happen in this scenario.