After halting a test of controversial technology to fight global warming, the city of Alameda, Calif., said it had found no “measurable health risk” from the giant salty-mist-spraying fans.
Well yeah, but the intention is to lessen the effects of the warming already happening and what will happen in the future no matter what we do. Nobody is pretending like we need to do this instead of cutting emissions, (except maybe oil execs I guess), we can do both at once.
The one downside of this and other geoengineering options is that once we start we can’t stop until CO2 levels drop back down so we don’t get a more sudden global temperature spike which would be worse for the environment most likely
One thing efforts like these don’t do is decrease the level of CO2 which carries a whole host of issues.
Well yeah, but the intention is to lessen the effects of the warming already happening and what will happen in the future no matter what we do. Nobody is pretending like we need to do this instead of cutting emissions, (except maybe oil execs I guess), we can do both at once.
The one downside of this and other geoengineering options is that once we start we can’t stop until CO2 levels drop back down so we don’t get a more sudden global temperature spike which would be worse for the environment most likely