A new study finds that global engineering efforts could cost $3.5 billion over the course of the next 15 years to develop the technology.David Goldman / AP file
Earth keeps getting hotter. Humanity isn’t doing enough to stop it. So, scientists are increasingly musing about conducting dramatic interventions in the atmosphere to cool the planet. And new research suggests that a project of atmospheric cooling would not only be doable, but also cheap enough that a single, determined country could pull it off. That cooling wouldn’t reverse climate change. The greenhouse gases would still be there. The planet would keep warming overall, but that warming would significantly, measurably slow down.
Those are the conclusions of a paper published Nov. 23 in the journal Environmental Research Letters by a…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Good God. Jus no. I’m convinced that the only thing that will help the planet if for humanity to go extinct, and then the trees can exhale a big sigh of relief, and the world can return to normality for the rest of the life on earth that has to suffer because of us.
I’ve often had that same thought.
Just the stoppage of wars would be a godsend once we’re gone. But for a time, there will be garbage and nuclear waste that we’ll have left behind. Can’t get rid of us.
I’m holding out hope for climate change! 😉
It’s coming.
It’s here! Most are still denying it. Wow! Just what we need, silly humans trying more techno-fixes–with more unknown damaging side effects. What a stupid species!
I only scanned the attached study because it just seems so utterly preposterous. What about wind currents? Rain? And of course it means lots of plane flights and lots of fuel usage. It was then I stopped reading. We already have smog.
Do they plan to circumnavigate the globe in every direction constantly? 😦 Meanwhile, life on earth will continue as usual, creating more and more greenhouse gasses.
…And if (for any ao many possible reasons) human stop adding chemicals to the upper atmosphere, it will get REALLY HOT overnight!!
“It feels like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are going to come riding over the hill any day now.”
https://www.ksl.com/article/46437335/flooding-hits-northern-california-area-scarred-by-wildfire