STRATOSPHERIC SULFATE AREOSOLS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi

>>8732585
Me. Yes it works mostly

>>8732589
So there's no such thing like "The government is the one behind global warming, spraying chemtrails" because this stuff can't cause it, right?

>>8732607
The entire idea is that it rejects heat, not captures it. As for whether or not it would work, it's exceedingly difficult to predict the exact effects before you actually observe it in action, but it would reduce the amount of thermal energy in the atmosphere, barring any possible emergant feedback loop.

>>8732585
Putting tons of aerosols into the air every few years doesn't seem like a viable solution.

>>8732666
I agree, it seems like a Band-Aid situation, rather than a serious solution.

>inb4 it has some unexpected catastrophic ecological side effect

>>8733766
>>8732666
its cheap as fuck, and it (probably) works. the cost was less than 2 billion for the whole planet. the fact that you have to redo it every couple years is a good thing.

i love how people shout and moan about climate change, but when a global solution is proposed the ((((scientists)))) start rubbing the back of their necks.

>>8733786
because there are a shitload of possible risks and unknowns associated with dumping that much aerosol into the atmosphere that we can't even begin to quantify.

>>8733786
>when a global solution is proposed
There are good and easy solutions. But nobody wants them because they harm the industry and our current way of live.

Environmental engineering might work. But brings about new issues. So it's better to try to avoid having to do it in the first place.

good in the moderate run (to help abate climate change) but bad in the longer run (after climate change isn't an issue) plus it could have negative impacts that were besides increasing Earth's albedo