Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials

edgemaster72, 10 days ago

I get that it’s for environmental reasons, but it kinda sounds like they said “these clouds aren’t white enough, let’s whiten them like our teeth”

silence7, 10 days ago

Yeah, the idea is to say “we could lower the temperature by tossing maybe-toxic particles in the air” as a means of creating social permission to continue extracting and burning fossil fuels. It’s kind of a mess though, because it might be the least-bad option if we fail to pull off a phase-out of fossil fuels.