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In a vacuum I’m glad that people are trying to come up with creative ideas to combat climate change since you never know what might work.
The issue is that in the US this is often being done in place of and not in addition to stuff we know needs to be done like restructuring cities around public transportation, encouraging people to reduce or eliminate meat consumption, etc.
The amount of times I’ve seen people try and justify the massive energy and water consumption LLM are using because the “AI” will solve the issue for us is way too many. Like even if it was an actual AI being worked on it’s very likely going to just tell us to do things we already knew we should’ve been doing and that’s even if you can artificially create sentience which I feel like is a a big if.
Blotting out the sun will never work lol, this is 100% scam
I wouldn't say "never". We've seen in recent years that reducing emissions in China can reduce the reflectivity of the planet and increase temperature everywhere in the short term, so I think it's well within reason to say that "blotting out the sun" can work.
The problem is that once you start doing something like this you're locked into doing it forever, and we don't have anywhere near the level of understanding of the knock on effects of this type of geoengineering.
They are promising $200M annual revenue by 2030 and potential IPO for sprinkling dust into the stratosphere FOR PROFIT. Who's gonna pay them? If this is a somewhat feasible solution, people would've talked about it years prior in academia and at IPCC meetings. Any serious discussion about mitigating climate change boils down to yelling at politicians to put solar panel, wind turbines and better public transport as the only feasible solution on the global scale. Not feeding cows seaweed to reduce methane emissions, not community garden, not paper straw, and certainly not blotting out the sun. This is NFT level scam.
Oh I'm not saying that this isn't a scam, you're right about that. But in theory I could see a government doing this and it working in a technical sense.
Yeah, this is straight Bond-villain shit:
Blotting out the sun already has been proven to work. Maritime trade in 2020 implemented heavy regulations on Sulphur Dioxide emissions that essentially overnight reduced said emissions by 80%.
Accidentally, it turns out Sulphur Dioxide was carrying out reverse greenhouse effect and global temperatures are rising much faster than before as a consequence.
This research should NOT be in the hands of private capital, but burying our heads in the sand regarding climate science and geoengineering is a horrible idea.
Oh yeah this specific plan and the way they’re going about it is garbage. Was speaking more generally about solutions.