The Obvious Answer
For some reason few have heard of this idea; here again it is presented as radical and new. But if global warming is a problem, well, essentially all of the heat input is solar. So why not reflect more of the solar energy back into space for a while? Weather balloons and hoses are relatively cheap. You can solve the problem with little of the expense or (this is why I think the idea gets little attention) centralized political power.
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What if the Earth was a Divine Artifact and there was no way to escape?
Nuclear power, too.
"You can solve the problem with little of the expense or (this is why I think the idea gets little attention) centralized political power."
Which also explains the lack of interest in problems like electromagnetic pulse devastation of the power grid (either natural or enemy-caused) and the risk of asteroid strikes.
I'm old enough to remember when releasing a lot of sulphur into the atmosphere was frowned on. We sure cost coal-fired power plants a lot of money for nothing, if this was eventually to be the plan.
I would just love to see the environmental impact statements needed to push through something like this.
If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)
-- now perched atop a slippery slush of volcano-warmed rock -- slides into the ocean ...
The climate alarmists are worried about polar ice in the Antarctic and Greenland. But "melting" is not a scientifically well founded concept. Air holds much less heat than ice. For practical purposes, no feasible amount of additional heat in the atmosphere will "melt" -- provide heat-of-fusion to change the state of solid H2O -- enough polar ice to affect climate, or sea levels, or ocean salinity. Or, to this current point, to affect overall Earthy albedo. The icecaps will stay pretty much as they are, whatever we do.
BUT, if volcanic heat drives a super-slab of ice into the ocean, to break up from a mile thick single chunk into thousands of (only relatively) small chunks -- THEN the albedo will change WILDLY. Much more reflection. Much less solar energy absorbed in the southern seas. Lots and lots of surface ice...
Triggering an ice age. Thousands of years of ice. Glaciers approaching the tropics.
Climate catastrophe, indeed.
The models all agree. If the WAIS doesn't "melt" slowly, but slides off quickly, we are all in deep deep DEEP .. snow.
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