It is really irresponsible that we don't fund geoengineering research.
1. Marine cloud brightening can be accomplished with, essentially, salt water jets on the back of container ships.
2. Selective iron fertilization has, additionally, positive ecological effects that need to be understood.
3. The lofting of sulfer dioxide into the upper atmosphere is not that expensive. On the order of 10 billion per year. We need to start experimenting to learn the dangers and adapt.
We don't want to be in a place where we have to do this in an emergency. We need to more fully understand the science of it in less dramatic ways.
1. Marine cloud brightening can be accomplished with, essentially, salt water jets on the back of container ships.
2. Selective iron fertilization has, additionally, positive ecological effects that need to be understood.
3. The lofting of sulfer dioxide into the upper atmosphere is not that expensive. On the order of 10 billion per year. We need to start experimenting to learn the dangers and adapt.
We don't want to be in a place where we have to do this in an emergency. We need to more fully understand the science of it in less dramatic ways.