The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Interesting arguments about solar geoengineering: dispersing particulates into the upper atmosphere to deflect a fraction of the sunlight.

Block the sun, save the planet?, Politico.

The Wapo reports that the US intelligence agencies and national security officials have workshopped how to deal with geopolitical tensions where one country may push ahead with measures that detrimentally affect neighbours.

Unfortunately, because of such slow progress, these geo-engineering solutions are being seriously considered by some locations. But it's like pollution and won't respect borders! btw., Many of them are already under small scale test, by small scale it still means large enough to affect a major region like a state.

The most likely so far is going to be seeding the oceans.

To me this is a step too far, it's like tapping a metronome and expecting it to settle into a new regular beat, but we should take heed of the mysterious effects of synchronicity and chaos. Such is the biosphere.

For the fun of it, this example uses a resonant surface to accelerate the effect, but given enough time this can even happen when devices are spread over surfaces as diverse as rough or sandy terrain or a concrete floor. The very last one to sync and how that seems to happen by brute force is the most surprising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8
People are perhaps a little ambitious if they think they can safely fiddle with things on a global scale.