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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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[–] HerbErtlinger@vlemmy.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, blocking the sun will surely be easier and more effective than taxing the rich assholes causing climate change.

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

In fact, it very well might be. I recall reading about a study done a year or two back that concluded that a fleet of high-altitude aircraft injecting calcium carbonate particulates into the stratosphere could counteract anthropogenic climate change for a cost of about $2 billion per year.