A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming(quantamagazine.org)

48 pointsby headalgorithm7 yıl önce7 comments

A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/

7 comments

painful7 yıl önce

As an American, I'm frankly sick of the US inaction on climate change. It makes me hate being an American. It almost makes me want to live somewhere saner from a climate pov. (Disclaimer: I'm a pacifist.)

_Microft7 yıl önce

As much as I hate the idea because of the complexity involved and possible side-effects but maybe climate engineering will be actually unavoidable in the long run.

That does not mean that we shouldn't try everything possible and maybe not-yet-possible to avert the worst.

redka7 yıl önce

This might be slightly off-topic but I wonder why, in the context of Global Warming, solutions like this [1] aren't more widespread.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...

rimunroe7 yıl önce

If you follow the link you'll see that they've made a note that a number of scientists disagree with him. These two articles came up immediately after going to his Wikipedia page: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X1...

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbd/2014/163431/

redka7 yıl önce

Thanks, I've missed that

sgt1017 yıl önce

I remember that there was work kicked off when 911 grounded global flights, and the contrails from aircraft declined reducing cloud cover, but that doesn't seem to be mentioned in this article.

Frightening stuff, climate change and nuclear weapons, not a good mix.

m_mueller7 yıl önce

I'm much less worried about nukes than about climate change tbh. Looking at the big picture, they basically cap the extent of humanity's madness, presumably before it's possible to trigger a Venusification of the planet and just sterilize it outright (i.e. thermal equilibrium at ~120 degree Celsius).