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Look for "Marine Cloud Brightening" and "ship tracks". Dirty fuels contribute to low cloud formation -- these are known to partially mitigate warming effects.

The opportunity is to design a jet to spray salt water off the back of cargo ships to optimize marine cloud formation/brightening around the world. This is one of the most palatable geoengineering solutions out there.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.201...

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As a software engineer I am really scared of all these geo-engineering solutions. There is no integration environment to test them.

"We'll test it in production."

#yolo it you mean? I think we only have one livable planet atm

Keep in mind that you could walk to England from the Netherlands 8,000 years ago. The climate will be changing, regardless of mankind. Should we allow it to or should we explore interventions in the feedback loops, towards climate stability?

I am not sure I understand your point.

My position is that we should be developing the science and technology to stabilize the climate, since drastic climate change is inevitable, with or without human folly.

For the long term I would agree. But in the short term, I think it's way to risky to rely on non-existent/unproven technologies to solve the current climate crisis. We simply don't have time for experiments.

It seems to me that the alternative to relying on experimental sci/tech is relying on a functional, far-sighted political process or mass individual behavior change.

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