With each passing year my dread increases that this is all headed toward intensive solar radiation management schemes that will forever rob us of a beautiful blue sky. Anything to avoid real changes.
It seems increasingly clear, especially given this unexpected termination shock caused by the switch to low-sulfur fuel oil, that aerial dispersants should be taken seriously are a viable solution.
What if we're past the point where shaming those who over-consume will effect any meaningful change in a timescale that will save us?
I don't understand why it would be necessary to rob us of a 'beautiful blue sky', wouldn't a tiny fractional reduction in solar radiation would move the needle appreciably? Its not as if we'd have to create a supervolcano.
And that's ignoring the fact that the global climate system is just too damned complicated for us to safely move from accidentally modifying it to trying to deliberately modify it.
If I believed it was a short-term stopgap while we get our shit together, I might be able to get onboard with the idea. But that ain't how humans work.