In addition to actual reporting, the NYT creates newslike ads for the fossil fuels industry. This results in disproportionate attention on high-risk approaches that involve anything other than phasing out fossil fuel use.
It is easier to think about blocking the sun than to overcome capitalism that is destroying the planet
Capitalist Realism in its essence
We’re doomed
Hey, I’ve seen this one
Say the line Bart!
Sigh Simpsons did it
YAAAAAAAAY!
Wouldn’t cutting down emissions be less precarious, easier to implement gradually, less unpredictable, more economically feasible in the long run, and less risky to fall on our heads?
All of those except that it means less profits for the people who own big oil.
This petro puppet proposes perverse pseudoscientific prattle
That’s a really neat alliteration! And also very true!
Blocking the sun is not a practical solution. Putting something up in the atmosphere is untested and super dangerous. It could cause all life on Earth to die out like the Matrix.
Physically blocking the sun is also practically impossible. It requires that we put an object in space in a Lagrange point (gravitationally stable points around Earth) which is very far away and the sun shield would have to be approximately the size of Brazil. Launching that much material into space and getting it into position, and then unfurling it would be a HUUUUUUGE undertaking the likes of which we have never seen. Plus, launching all those rockets, mining the materials, etc, would emit so many tonnes of green house gasses that by the time we actually did it we might be in an even worse position.
Delusional, just insane.
Technology will not save us, but guillotines will.
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Global warming is nothing but a math equation at the end of the day. Change the input value, change the result.
The real problem is what you do with all the snakes after they eat the mice.
Earth isnt a machine, we cant just fix it like a broken machine. Earth is a body with a fever due to CO2 intoxication. We need to let Earth lash itself back into wellbeing, without our invasive engripments.
It’s a bit more than a math equation; things like how much ice there is are meaningfully path dependent. Just dropping CO2 concentrations won’t get us back the world we had.
That’s just another part of the equation.
Guillotines are technology, laser guillotines are what we should be developing.
Far safer to bump earth’s orbit a notch or two further out.
And while we’re at it, adjust the axis tilt a bit.
Let Musk handle it.
<covers mouth>
Blocking the sun and letting the AI overthrow us? Sounds like a plan.
Someone check if the scientist is a vampire or part of the thrall.
I have a great idea on how to block the sun!
They’re called trees.
Oh they help, but at scale, they help by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. You just can’t actually increase the forested area by enough to fully offset the damage we’re doing
We should focus on planting trees in downtown areas with sprawling pavement acting as giant radiators.
That’s a completely reasonable adaptation measure.
This is MUCH EASIER then just not giving CEOS Taxpayer Dollars to Continue Polluting and Killing Us!
Picture looks like he came up with the idea in time-out corner.
Isn’t that what an umbrella is for?
At an individual level, yes.
Then we need umbrellas for all to solve climate change /s
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In this case, it hasn’t been happening intentionally at a meaningful scale; you’d be able to look up and see the thin haze from it, and use a spectrometer to figure out that it’s not water vapor.
What has happened is that ordinary sulphur mixed with fossil fuels has produced particulates lower in the atmosphere. These turn into sulfuric acid when in contact with water, resulting in acid rain. Policies to sharply lower sulfate particle emissions have resulted in that becoming far less of a problem, but also accelerated warming in recent years.
what’s, with, all, the, extra, commas?
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