DIY Geoengineering: The Whitepaper - Nephew Jonathan

It hit 96 degrees when I started writing this post (that’s about 35.5C for the rest of you)—in the DC area, in September—so let’s talk geoengineering (the how more than the why). This post is intended as something of a sequel to/commentary on Casey Handmer’s post We should not let the Earth overheat! from a couple months ago, and/or a summary/crystallization of some Twitter discussion from a few weeks ago. If you haven’t read Casey’s post, it’s strongly recommended. Why should we geoengineer? Because I don’t like the idea of dying in a 120-degree heat wave and degrowth means the worst depression in the history of industrial civilization. Next question? I don’t think we have enough data to know that this is safe. Nobody seemed to care very much about the potential consequences when we suddenly phased out sulfur emissions in shipping. Here’s what we’ve seen since then: Were “stakeholders” consulted? No, we just went ahead and did it. So we shouldn’t have phased out sulfur emissions in sh

(Part II here.) It hit 96 degrees when I started writing this post (that’s about 35.5C for the rest of you)—in the DC area, in September—so let’s talk geoengineering (the how more than the why). This post is intended as something of a sequel to/commentary on Casey Handmer’s post We should not let the Earth overheat! from a couple months ago, and/or a summary/crystallization of some Twitter discussion from a few weeks ago. If you haven’t read Casey’s post, it’s strongly recommended. Why should we geoengineer? Because I don’t like the idea of dying in a 120-degree heat wave and degrowth…

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