@sundogplanets That's also the plot of the last episode of "Dinosaurs".

@sundogplanets That's the one with the sulfur rockets, right?

@sundogplanets Or watch Snowpiercer

@sundogplanets weather engineering is also in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future.

@sundogplanets Men will literally blot out the sun rather than go to therapy...I mean, cut back on carbon emissions.

@sundogplanets I remember reading Stuart Brand's book about this stuff a few years ago and thinking that the use of aerosols to reduce solar radiation was cheap enough to do that a billionaire could just do it, and there wouldn't be anything anyone could do about it.

@sundogplanets Potential side effect of killing off (or seriously degrading) solar power, which as is the current way of things, will result in an increase in fossil fuel usage.

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Yedvab is a colossal goddamn maniac.

And why is every rich person also insane now?

@sundogplanets "If we kill all of the crops & starve all humans, CO2 production will decrease!"
Their collective brain mass is just large enough to fit on a microscope slide.

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"a key threshold [has] already been crossed. Humanity [has] gained the power to turn down the sun, and barely anyone on the planet even [knows]."

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Nearly 20 years ago now, there was a piece critiquing another sulfate aerosol scheme.

It was entitled "Can Dr. Evil Save The World?".

Evidently, the venture capitalists concerned have learned nothing.

@sundogplanets glitter will be the end of us all

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I am now wondering if Termination Shock happened, in a small way, during Covid lock down when suddenly the aeroplanes stopped flying, and we all sat outside in our gardens enjoying a very warm year of nothing else to do?

@sundogplanets I think of this every time this comes up:

"We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. "

- Morpheus, The Matrix

@sundogplanets Added to my reading list!

https://kirja.casa/user/kallekn/generatednote/46857#anchor-46857

Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/

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Can't believe we're at "The solution to polluting the atmosphere is more pollution of a different type."