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>Not sure which computing analogy would drive home the complete recklessness of this mentality but the Earth is not something you can reboot to the last working state once you harebrained patch implodes.

here's one: stop writing random bits to the BIOS hoping it will fix things

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That's an awful analogy. The science behind, say, sunshades is much stronger than the science behind climate change itself!

Eg. The odds of blocking out the sun not cooling the earth are much lower than the earth's temperature magically stabilising at current levels despite more co2 emissions.

the hidden assumption is that you are dealing with a closed system, you are not. the scientific method has explanatory limits

Sunshade is like thinking you fixed the bios security issue because your test case can no longer boot.

Is the implication here that global warming isn't the actual problem we're trying to solve?

No but you can appear to solve a problem with a myopic poorly formed test. Ala we got temps down but wheat yields are down but we won't blame the sunshade because that solved the problem.

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