Rogue Climatologists

[TugboatEng]

I thought you this was fake news but apparently there is a company injecting sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in order to cause global cooling.

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We create global cooling by launching reflective, biodegradable, high-altitude clouds. main side effect: more vivid sunsets;)

makesunsets.com

I still didn't believe this could be true but sources more reputable than I have confirmed it.

Is This Climate Tech Start-Up Going Rogue?

Make Sunsets' sulfur dioxide strategy has academics and NGOs fuming

spectrum.ieee.org

Cooling by blocking sunlight can't be good for plant growth. They claim a tree equivalent for cooling but does that account for the reduction in growth it can cause?

 

[GregLocock]

Any geo engineering project will create winners and losers. An example of this is cloud seeding, which has threatened to start wars in SE Asia, and in Tasmania for example is used to increase rainfall in the catchment for the hydro dams, at the expense of causing reduced rainfall in the agricultural land to the East.

The simple way to get rid of this particular idiocy is to declare that the process is not approved for carbon credits.

 

[JoshPlumSE]

Meh.... I don't think this type of attempt to regulate weather should ever be done by a private company. Unless it happens in a nation that is sponsoring and approving it. For the same reason that my neighbor is not allowed to build a patio that cantilevers over my property. For the same reason that oil companies aren't allowed to dig up my yard because there are minerals they want to extract. Or, they want to run a pipeline through my property. The government might get away with something like that, but not private companies.

FWIW, I doubt that this would have much of an effect on the world climate. Maybe locally. Maybe short term.

 

[TugboatEng]

If they do create a negative condition, it can be quite difficult to get private companies to clean up the messes they have made. Canada is having to deal with an abandoned tidal turbine.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tidal-power-green-energy-bay-of-fundy-trevor-boudreau-1.7509897