Faster, More Drastic Cuts To Fossil Fuel Extraction Needed

[rcjordan]

EU Looks Into Blocking Out the Sun as Climate Change Efforts Falter - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/eu-looks-into-blocking-out-the-sun-as-climate-efforts-falter

paywall, but the title pretty much says it all.

The European Union will join an international effort to assess whether large-scale interventions such as deflecting the sun's rays or changing the Earth's weather patterns are viable options for fighting climate change.

The bloc will announce a framework Wednesday for assessing the security implications of a rapidly warming planet, such as the potential for scarce water or food to trigger conflict and migration, according to a draft document seen by Bloomberg. Part of that assessment includes studying the potential dangers of re-engineering the atmosphere.

[ergophobe]

This is a case where it is important to differentiate global warming from the general. Blocking out the sun can help with temperature, but it doesn't help with ocean acidification and other issues.

Still, it may be better to do something to slow down rising temps and oceans and then deal with the acidification and similar problems later. This gets at the nub of the moral hazard issue with blocking the sun though. If it seems to work for temperature, will people just kick the can down the road and let the oceans acidify?

[rcjordan]

>will people just kick the can down the road and let the oceans acidify?

In your heart of hearts you know they will.

[ergophobe]

It was mostly a rhetorical question.

[rcjordan]

White House releases report on solar geoengineering

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/white-house-releases-report-on-solar-geoengineering.html