That’s the thing you do after 2080 when you have too much energy. Because you have to add in all the energy from burning it, and it’s very unproductive.

Is this the wrong reply? I guess it is completely unrelated.

And that’s been the statement people make every time for the last 15 years. But at a certain point there is only people that accept it and people who will never do so until they die.

Small scale tests have to be done slowly over time, and it’s best to do that now at the very least so we have a good grasp of what won’t work at scale so we didn’t chase means that are less practical.

But the real point is that very few people commenting actually read the article. This was about marine cloud brightening, where they’re only making clouds slightly brighter. It’s the least offensive option possible that is technically a thing that everybody likes more anyway. People act like mr burns blocking the sun.

The only one that has any real risk is the iron fertilization concept because changing the limited ingredient in an ecosystem could possibly have an effect on the system.

At a certain point you have to ignore the " but someone will use it as an excuse" argument, that’s been the response for decades. It can’t mean that because someone could object you just have to do nothing ever.

No you’re correct, the co2 levels act slowly over time to increase temperatures so we haven’t even got a tiny fraction of the total warming. The only way to deal with it is to go sharply carbon negative as soon as possible and use Geoengineering to actively cool the planet.

No, there was just some weather around then that was cold. See the little ice age, by that point we’d already cut down most of the megaforests and the co2 levels were rising so the temperature was going to slowly increase over time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

For specific things like protein folding “Ai” has been useful but that’s not just a llm.

They’ll add new features and those are always automatically turned on. It’s very obvious when you have a privacy settings tab with everything turned off and one thing you’ve not heard of turned on.

It’ll be both, even a very aggressive response will take decades for it to Stop getting hotter then at best it will not get hotter. It will be 4-5 decades at best before it gets cooler.

Methane adds some uncertainty to that though. If you were to stop using gas it might cool off after it disappears in a decade in the atmosphere.

But it will keep getting hotter in every circumstance even if we act aggressively on climate change.

Famine for ocean animals and more hurricanes in the even hotter tropics for starters.

Vegetarian is enough to get most of the benefits for environmental reasons. But it’s foolish to wait until that happens, it can’t wait.

No, we literally cannot safely build a glass dome that big. I do think large blimps with reflective tops could cool a city a little though.

Cooling down at night is actually a really big deal, plants and animals both use the chill night to rest from the heat. When the night stays hot then the heat really does a lot more damage to health.

There’s a basic assumption that the climate of an area is fixed. We don’t really have a good mechanism for adjusting the climate of an area quickly. But eventually you have to say that the weather hasn’t been hotter than normal for a decade, this is just the new normal.

It started out hotter than it would be and the heatwave is at least a few degrees more severe than it would be otherwise.

There are steps needed to slow global warming and become carbon neutral. Those don’t matter much if someone shows up and machine guns your town and loots it.

Spy books have taught me that the mole will be the person in charge of or who ordered the investigation.

What events? It’s clear that being a nuclear state is great for preventing invasion. If you have a submarine fleet with nukes you won’t be invaded.

It’s about having enough that your enemy can’t target them and blow them up in a surprise attack.

No. It’s for radiation so you don’t breathe in the radioactive dust afterwards.