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Scientists call for 'major initiative' to study whether geoengineering should be used on glaciers (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I personally think we need to leave geoengineering the hell alone.
We live any closed system where a change of climate in one area can drastically affect the rest of the system, that's why the polar ice caps are melting in the first place.
If we start deliberately messing with the climate, who knows what kind of hell we could accidentally unleash.
For example, the Amazon rainforest depends on dust from Saharan sandstorms provide nutrients as it's carried across the ocean, if we were to start a cloud seeding project in the Sahara and turn it green, that would be a sharp reduction in nutrients arriving in the Amazon which would cause the deforestation problem to rapidly accelerate.
We have no business fucking with the climate at all and we should be looking into eliminating the causes of climate change rather than looking for ways to live with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any proper (i.e. Real scientists leading it and not some start up pushing it for a hidden profit agenda) geo engineering project is going to be carefully studied, slow and methodical to ensure such things are properly mitigated.

Even this very article is about scientists calling for a study to see if it should or can be done at all. If it's determined it should or can, and it's being done properly, there will be multiple follow up studies to determine side effects and if they can be compensated for and what not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah and we kinda need to start doing it soon. Because it might become a thing we have to do, and I'd rather we know how to do it and not just wing it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I agree in general but we may not actually have a choice soon.