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Good lord, read Termination Shock by Neil Stephenson. Stratospheric aerosol injection is effective, but comes with severe risks, and can even be used as a strategic weapon (e.g. inject your sulphur over X and disrupt the monsoon in the Punjab, fucking their agriculture).

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Neil Stephenson is predicting way too much of the future.

Tenses are hard. Again:

Stephenson predicted way too much of the present.

He has a knack for being scarily prescient. I didn't expect we would seriously be discussing geoengineering in the 2020's (I gave it until at least the early 2030's, given the technical complexity of building the actual delivery system for any planet-scale intervention), but here we are.

Careful now, that is dangerously close to admitting weather manipulation has been known about and possible for decades, and not merely a conspiracy.

it has been known and done many times in open, what you're on about ?

So we have already reached the stage where we deny ever claiming otherwise.

What a future this is turning out to be. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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