Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis?
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Interest in sun shields, once a fringe idea, has grown. Now, a team of scientists says it could launch a prototype within a few years.
  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    10 months ago

    A bunch of reasons:

    • as we dump co2 in the atmosphere, much is absorbed in the oceans, acidifying them. This will kill off a big chunk of marine life
    • it’s tough, and not particularly likely to succeed at the needed scale
    • we will need to maintain this system for a few hundred thousand years. Humans don’t have a track record of maintaining civilization for that long
    • we will end up with substantially different weather patterns due to a reduced pole-to-equator temperature gradient.