I can’t wait to find out that geoengineering is probably sponsored by companies like BP, Shell, Santos, BHP, Rio tinto, Glencore, Roy Hill, ConocoPhillips, etc.
Whatever keeps the shareholders happy
Geoengineering experiments to dim sunlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTDXHir380&t=62
“We marveled at our own magnificence, as we gave birth to AI.”
“AI? You mean artificial intelligence?”
“A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.”
— The Matrix
I always get such strong nostalgic vibes when I watch clips from The Matrix.
I always get such strong nostalgic vibes when I watch clips from The Matrix.
This is incredibly dangerous. We lack knowledge of how all these interconnected systems affect oneanother and how quick - or slow - the feedback loops are.
Just by cutting down forests back in the 1500s we contributed to “the Little Ice age”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YLTbm2GNQ
So it begins
ARIA will devote £50 million ($66.5 million) to funding various small-scale outdoor experiments to explore the effects of spreading aerosols into clouds.
- 50 million
- small scale
- outdoor into clouds
the first contradicts the second and the second contradicts the third
If you put shit into real clouds its not an “experiment” its a live test with no way to control it
dim idea
There is a great Hank Green video on the topic. In short we were already putting a ton of aerosols via cargo ship emissions (toxic ones) and recent regulations made the fuel cleaner. This resulted in global temperature spike suggesting aerosols are effective - we already run a massive unsupervised experiment.
There’s a follow-up to that video where he explains he was wrong and it’s probably a bad idea
Wasn’t this also the plot of some Highlander movie?
I mean the route we’re on right now is already apocalyptically bad. Neither works of fiction giving a cautionary tale of fiction, nor failing to fully understand what we’re doing really hold any weight against the reality that we ARE cooking our planet.
Worse case scenario, we do what we were going to do anyway: change the climate into one that doesn’t sustain human life.
I vote fuck it, if there’s a chance it could work, let’s give it a shot.
Of course, I think this is completely asinine. I can’t help but wonder, though, if researching it is necessary. There’s not nearly enough political will to stop environmental damage at the source, such as imposing strict regulations on fossil fuel companies.
