• tango_octogono@lemmy.ml
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      The TL;DR is that they don’t want random organizations to try to geoengineer when we still are not sure about unintended consequences

      The article talks about a start up company trying to reflect the sun

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    Funny, I was just reading The Ministry for the Future…

    TLDR: It’s going to be seriously discussed as adaptation measure as soon as we recognize that the situation is beyond repair.

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    This time I’m not on the same side with the EU, I think that an experiment won’t hurt anything. If it doesn’t work, we’ll know that this is not the right way, but if does, we might have new tool for managing climate change.

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      Literally wrong and the limitation is that you need a allowance to test stuff for safety reasons, it can be very dangerous, especially since the chemicals used for it are usually not exactly chemicals you want in your body, also there is no proof that these things don’t make it worse.

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        Examples from the past/present:

        • lead in gasoline and paint
        • fluorocarbons in refrigerants / ozone depletion
        • microplastic/fluorocarbons that decay too slow (ongoing debate)
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        The experiment would require very few amount of chemicals (~1Kg) that aren’t dangerous to humans. It would have nearly zero impact overall.

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          Just a bit of lead wich isn’t harmful to humans -scientist in the 40s making “better” fuel and paint…