Termination shock could make the cost of climate damage even higher
www.newscientist.com
Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound sharply, leading to greater damage than unabated global warming
  • gbzm@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand how solar geoengineering is even on the table. Wouldn’it fuck up agriculture – and plant life in general – even more than it already is? Isn’t it a choice between a famine because of the climate or a famine because the sun is blocked off?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      3 months ago

      There is a fair bit of risk. Its on the table because we need to be finishing the fossil fuels phase out around now, not starting it