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White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun's rays to slow global warming (www.eenews.net)

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The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.

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[–] Magess@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A giant space umbrella!
So much easier than regulating like 6 companies.

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if we achieve full decarbonisation, the damage already done won't go away. This would be a last resort, though because no matter how much research you do, it'll never be possible to really predict what would happen.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

One nice thing about these sorts of countermeasures is that if they turn out to have bad side effects it's easy to just stop doing them.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anything that ain't targeting those companies looks like deflection. Seriously.