that involved flying aircraft at high altitude and releasing aerosolized sulfuric acid to create compounds that destroy the worst greenhouse gases, like refrigerants. Thing is, I obey the law of unintended consequences.

The United States of Unintended Consequences

The "Unintended Consequences" of literally subsidizing billion dollar fossil fuel companies

The "Unintended Consequences" of wasting a few trillion dollars on global hegemony for ~30 f'n years now.

- who could have guessed?

Instead of curbing their gluttony, they'll just kill us all because, they are sure that they know better.

How's that going for us?

I'm running out of swear words for the people who come up with this sh*t.

Stop the consumption race, people. Humanity can survive what we've done so far - maybe not without pain, but we can survive, if we start DEALING WITH IT sensibly.

But it seems like some of these folks want to play craps with the whole planet. Don't they know the house always wins? Hint: humanity ain't the house in this case.

Things are getting serious we have to try this. The warm water flow to the Arctic is about to collapse. There are two ways the current warming resolves, one an ice age begins or two warming accelerates further and feedback loops kick in and things go run away. Things could basically become inhospitale to human life. Or even worse our water could evaporate and exit our atmosphere. Read here if you wish to get an idea of how outrageously dangerous this is. https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/?m=1

i’ve thought for a long time that volcanic ash bombs are feasible and well understood.
buy some time. we’ve come a long way in clean energy production. we’ll get farther still in the next decade.
ppl r getting cooked rn. it’s an emergency, and this wd help.
i’m for it.

This kind of geoengineering is basically an irreversible decision, because if you ever stop, all the elements of runaway greenhouse warming are still in place, and the effects on life will be even more catastrophic than doing nothing (because the rate of heating will be even greater).

...that particulates were somehow shading the atmosphere and keeping is cooler than if we only had GHG emissions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_trans.shtml

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which is actually being used to force oil out of rock, large-scale geoengineering projects like this will be used to facilitate fossil burning if conducted by First World capitalism.
"Hey, there's a reprieve, go fill up your bloatmobiles".

It's an old idea. There's a good treatment of this strategy in Robinson's The Ministry For The Future.

We may well need to use large-scale geoengineering, but the better solution is "leave it in the ground".

edit: damn, this old fool can't type

Alternately, we could set off nuclear warheads at the tops of inconvenient mountains, thus reducing solar heating by way of the little bit of dust kicked up and creating some (future) parking lots and bowl-shaped lakes. How's that not a win-win?