Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀

@Einskjaldi so you want to pollute the world with toxic chemicals and it’s going to make everything worse. Sorry, are you a Captain Planet villain?

@Einskjaldi @silence7 sulfate aerosols cause acid rain, respiratory irritation, and can even cause severe cardiopulmonary diseases leading to premature deaths.

But even if we could find some reflective aerosol that isn’t toxic, computer models of SRM/geoengineering have shown frightening negative side effects including slowed global circulation leading to an uneven temperature gradient that would disrupt the jetstream, leading to increased atmospheric blocking in the form of stagnant high-pressure systems that lock in hot air for extended periods a.k.a. “heat domes” and effectively exacerbating some of the worst problems the climate crisis is already causing

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reflecting-sunlight-cool-planet-storm-0602

@silence7 no, no we don’t.

We know it can have localized impacts that move the problem around and make it worse for others, which makes trying to implement it in an uncoordinated manner, particularly without a computer model driving the plan, a dick move

@silence7 “moving from computer modelling into serious practical engineering research”

More like skipping the step where they show their idea works in a computer model and going straight to polluting the atmosphere.

Maybe polluting the atmosphere without thinking about the consequences is what got us in this mess to begin with.