Plans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum but critical voices risk being excluded
theconversation.com
The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.
    • Thassodar@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      They tried it in the Piers Anthony book Rings of Ice and that ended up absolutely terribly when the ice they took into space started melting and causing unending flooding.

      • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        So like… Don’t build it out of ice then? Also it’s a book that may or may not be fully accurate, and should be taken as a thought experiment and story

        There are plenty of valid concerns but that is not one of them lol