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Disaffected

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16. It would make the ocean water CO2 problem worse

Reply to Takket (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 18, 2022, 12:07 AM

Sep 2022

as cooling the artic regions will tend to increase the amount of permanent ice (or at least reduce its loss) thereby decreasing (or slowing the increase of) the volume of ocean water.

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Refreezing Earth's poles feasible and cheap, new study finds [View all] 867-5309. Sep 2022 OP

On the one hand, we should be vary wary of geoengineering solutions like this Silent3 Sep 2022 #1

Indeed. Disaffected Sep 2022 #15

I read "Ministry of the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson.... albacore Sep 2022 #2

Gives new meaning to "chemtrails". madinmaryland Sep 2022 #3

microscopic aerosol of what pray tell benzene, micro plastics... Thomas Hurt Sep 2022 #4

The article they're referring to talks about sulfur dioxide. highplainsdem Sep 2022 #8

thanks, didn't see that in the text, must not have read it closely enough. Thomas Hurt Sep 2022 #9

The Phys.org article in the OP doesn't say anything about SO2. You have to go to highplainsdem Sep 2022 #10

Isn't this what Al Gore said . . . Richard D Sep 2022 #18

Darn it! Karma13612 Sep 2022 #29

That ought to dweller Sep 2022 #5

What could possibly go wrong? (n/t) Retrograde Sep 2022 #6

✔️ live love laugh Sep 2022 #11

My first thought, too. n/t mia Sep 2022 #22

better than nothing... Takket Sep 2022 #7

It would make the ocean water CO2 problem worse Disaffected Sep 2022 #16

I hope they call the aerosol CW-7... NutmegYankee Sep 2022 #12

This essentially mimics a large volcanic eruption VMA131Marine Sep 2022 #13

Ozone holes? Marcuse Sep 2022 #14

Won't that cooler air from the Poles drift over into China, then China's hot air drift to the Poles? Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #17

I don't much like the idea of putting more crap in the atmosphere Bayard Sep 2022 #19

I am by nature wary of simple solutions to complex problems. DFW Sep 2022 #20

Thanks you! Duppers Sep 2022 #21

What happens when a volcano explodes? speak easy Sep 2022 #26

Random natural occurrences are one thing DFW Sep 2022 #28

" Systematic, targeted playing around"? Yes. Suicidal? No. speak easy Sep 2022 #30

Large solar panels in geosynchronous orbit over the equator -- shade and reflector. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #23

+1. nt ecstatic Sep 2022 #25

I don't like this idea ecstatic Sep 2022 #24

Wow! Karma13612 Sep 2022 #27