US considers 'sun blocking' to cool the Earth: What is it and does it really work?

So we've reached "bargaining". Good to know.

We will do literally anything to avoid changing our ways huh

Next month:

Europe considers sacrificing babies to Satan

The Simpsons isn't just an animated sitcom. It's a documentary about the future:

1. Reduction of fossil fuels
2. Literally block out the sun

we’re fucked

Growing evidence that governments/corporations would sooner give up seeing the goddamn sun than get off even a fraction of fossil fuel usage

Won't help with ocean acidification. Stop using fossil fuels, leave it in the ground.

Given much of the transition to renewable energy is planned to be solar this may be counterproductive. China is rolling out monumental amounts of solar at the moment, we can't just block the sun since it's part of the solution.

Will they use diamondium or diamondillium?

Literally what happened in the Matrix.

What could ever go wrong

Has no one seen The Matrix/Animatrix?!

This is what I call a "hotfix" .

Truly the age of social media.

"The Sun is killing us!"

"Just block him, bro."

Re-engineering our space program towards space manufacturing, mineral extraction, and building permanent residences in space sufficient enough to support the people that would be needed to build and maintain space-based infrastructure like a reflector would be an undertaking I'm not sure humanity currently has the drive for.

Science and futurism YouTuber Isaac Arthur is going to love this. Giant aluminum reflectors are a huge part of future space infrastructure and he is happy to point this out quite often.

American arrogance at its best.

Isn't this part of the plot of Snowpiercer? At least the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqi0FabHHs&t=1467s

Great the solar roadways of climate change fixes.

Who decides on the thermostat settings? How fast can we reverse if we dial back too far?

Has no one seen highlander 2?!

Wasnt this the start of Highlander 2?

I did not vote for Lord Ruler

Idk the impact of how reflective this site is but I assume it's more than anything man made yet US is destroying it:

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-nasa-opposes-lithium-tabletop-flat.html

Instead of creating new solutions why not protect existing ones?

The best part is you can dual purpose the shades to collect solar power and microwave beam it wherever you want.

Cen we not? We could always try other more sane methods that are available

The industrial revolution was a mistake. Convenience and comfort have proven to not be worth the cost of complete ecological destruction. Total deindustrialization is the only solution, and it will not happen. We're going to kill ourselves off, or nearly, and the world will be a better place for it in the long run.

The UN Environmental Program's recent report into SRM concludes that it is not currently a realistic or wise plan.

"UNEP concurs with the panel that, at present, large-scale, or operational deployment of SRM technologies is not necessary, viable, prudent or sufficiently safe, given the limited scientific understanding and uncertainty about the potential impacts and unintended consequences," says UNEP’s Chief Scientist Andrea Hinwood.

"The review concludes that SRM cannot replace reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

Nonetheless, the body doesn't rule out the method altogether, with the report concluding that their assessment of the technique "may change should climate action remain insufficient".