Comment on Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Fuck, no! We do not understand anything about anything, well enough to start fucking with shit on this scale.
We actually do. Cargo ships used to give off white smoke because they burned sulpher. A new law went into effect that stopped them from burning sulpher and the clouds went away and we saw a spike in temperature.
So we have some data. We’ve already been experimenting with global climate. Might as well experiment to try and fix it.
Fuck it we ball. Nerds, start turning those knobs and dials until the problem is fixed or we die.
We actually do. Cargo ships used to give off white smoke because they burned sulpher. A new law went into effect that stopped them from burning sulpher and the clouds went away and we saw a spike in temperature.
So we have some data. We’ve already been experimenting with global climate. Might as well experiment to try and fix it.
Honestly, that is actually a perfect example of how stupid this whole idea is. Imagine actively promoting the burning of sulfur, in order to try and reflect sunlight. That is the definition of the solution creating even more problems than it solves.
There was a planned test of getting a glider up to the stratosphere and releasing SO2 and H2S and watching effects, temps, dispersal, etc. Someone made an article and there was so much uproar that the test was canceled.
We’re able to create, destroy, vent, and dump whatever as long as there’s a profit, but a small test to see what happens absolutely NOT. Science is all about pulling threads, trying to figure out something new however small in the hopes others can build on it. Nature already does this. We just doing it in a controlled manner.
Why would you need to do a test if something, when you can simply observe the same results from a naturally occurring event?
Science isn’t about doing things just to see what happens. That’s absurd. And wildly unethical.
I almost thought you were being serious until I read this one lol
He is. Irrational people are irrational.
You wouldn’t need to use sulfur if you actually did it on purpose. You could use many other methods to make clouds.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Isn’t that the point of tests? Do something at a more limited scale to see what the results of that are?
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
1st of all…the Sun isn’t the problem. It isn’t getting brighter or hotter. The problem is us. So, “fixing” something that isn’t broken, isn’t going to actually “fix” anything. It will just introduce additional variables to an already ridiculously complex equation.
Not to mention, it may even give the fossil fuel industry and its supporters a justification to continue doing more damage, under the false pretense that the problem has been “solved”. So, where does it stop? When we’ve blocked out the Sun entirely, but are still choking to death on our own industrial exhaust?
shani66@ani.social 3 weeks ago
You’re right, we should just let the world end instead
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lol! This isn’t going to save it. The problem will just keep getting worse, no matter how dim we make the sun…because the sun isn’t the problem.