Climate scientists say South Asia's heat wave (120F) is a sign of what's to come
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I was one of those contributing to the derision. I am now rethinking my negative thoughts on the topic.
I must admit that funding stratospheric sulfur injection + funding Terraform Industries, might be our best bet, given the timeline.
I would love to hear about alternatives.
However, those old memes didn't have science, aka atmospheric chemistry, on their side.
It's not an easy thing to accept, though I think it helps greatly that I don't have and never wanted children; still I'd prefer that the collective children of humanity have a future they can look forward to.
That's because, if what the internet has told me is correct, sulfur injections only stay in the atmosphere for a couple of years. If we use them to mitigate warming before we've addressed greenhouse gases the injections have to be ongoing. Stop the injections and in a couple of years the warming comes back.
You really don't want a situation where you end up doing injections for a decade or two and then it stops for some reason. You then get in a couple of years a level of warming that without the injections would have happened over a decade or two. Getting that warming rapidly is probably a lot harder for people to deal with.