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Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound sharply, leading to greater damage than unabated global warming (www.newscientist.com)
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This is kind of a big deal — the long atmospheric lifetime of CO2 means that once started, people need to maintain the technical infrastructure for geoengineering for longer than civilizations last.

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[–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago

There is a fair bit of risk. Its on the table because we need to be finishing the fossil fuels phase out around now, not starting it

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