Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.
Yeah, the idea is to say “we could lower the temperature by tossing maybe-toxic particles in the air” as a means of creating social permission to continue extracting and burning fossil fuels. It’s kind of a mess though, because it might be the least-bad option if we fail to pull off a phase-out of fossil fuels.
I get that it’s for environmental reasons, but it kinda sounds like they said “these clouds aren’t white enough, let’s whiten them like our teeth”
Yeah, the idea is to say “we could lower the temperature by tossing maybe-toxic particles in the air” as a means of creating social permission to continue extracting and burning fossil fuels. It’s kind of a mess though, because it might be the least-bad option if we fail to pull off a phase-out of fossil fuels.