Could spraying sea salt into the clouds cool the planet? An experiment in Alameda, Calif. highlights the controversy surrounding research on altering the environment to cool the planet.
Could spraying sea salt into the clouds cool the planet? An experiment in Alameda, Calif. highlights the controversy surrounding research on altering the environment to cool the planet.
An experiment in Alameda, Calif. highlights the controversy surrounding research on altering the environment to cool the planet.
Why is there no "controversy" about destroying the planet, ongoingly with petroleum products?
It’s the WaPo. They report to you the republiQan talking points in their best liberal-npr-radio voice.
Because we're being wise enough to question if this might have unintended consequences. For example, it might just shift the problem elsewhere and cause more severe draughts for someone else. Just a hypothetical to point out why people might not be immediately onboard with this.
Tho, fun fact, California has been doing this kind of stuff since at least the 60's. It's called cloud seeding and we've had numerous programs running. They just never got much attention. But technically, the chem trails conspiracy is based in a bit of truth. It's just not every airplane, but it's happening. A quick Google search will give you tons of government pages about it. It's not a secret.
Genuine answer: This is controversial because it is to intentionally alter the climate. We use fossil fuels for energy, not to alter the climate. The climate stuff is a negative side effect of fossil fuels.
Yes. There's no possible way this could go wrong.
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Starts frantically building a train to house what's left of humanity.
Your train will rust away in the salty rain..
I agree that the focus needs to be on cutting emissions, and I share the concern for unintended consequences. But I don’t know if that concern justifies shutting down an experiment that would help identify those consequences.
Sounds like someone got confused with seasons and seasoning.
Watch it work and cool the planet...but then we get salt water rains and it kills all vegetation that it touches resulting in an even worse fate.
First thought I had reading that article was "soil salinity."
That's not how precipitation works.
Didn't that just happen with the Tonga eruption? I guess they wouldn't be adding all the water though.
Tonga pumped water into the stratosphere, not just the troposphere.
Well, they've pulled the plug on it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/alameda-cloud-brightening-climate-change.html
Well no. But… it would kill all plants so thats a bonus
The idea is to increase the amount of salt in the air over the ocean. It probably won't kill all plants.
Clouds move ya know. I'm not exactly sure why, but I've heard people on the television call it 'weather', or something like that.
That actually sounds good, I just dont know how they will spread salt periodically over the millions of square kms needed to make a difference on the Pacific's albedo without a huge carbon footprint.
Aizoaceae has entered the chat..
Yeah, that's brilliant!
In a society trying to push electric vehicles out that can't even make it through a car wash, yeah let's see if we can make them rust even faster!