I increasingly meet people in the #climate movement revaluating their stance on Solar Radiation Management as it becomes obvious that governments are failing to do enough to avoid catastrophic levels of warming.
— Dr. Aaron Thierry (@ThierryAaron) May 23, 2024
Here @ClimateOfGavin reminds us why SRM is a terrible idea… 1/3š§µ pic.twitter.com/OX5WaEKcut
"It's unsustainable… at some point there will be a crisis and it will stop and once it stops you are worse then you were before… For it to be a successful intervention that cannot happen for a centaury or more!"
— Dr. Aaron Thierry (@ThierryAaron) May 23, 2024
3/3 š§µ pic.twitter.com/l5KobKYPtJ
He’s right, if someone did it for a while and things improved, it would be back to business as usual. But once it stopped for some reason, (war, cost, protest, etc) the termination shock would be catastrophic.
war, cost, protest…lawsuit
In the movie version of Snowpiercer (2013), the setting of a frozen-over earth is attributed to geoengineering overshoot.
As they mentioned, geoengineer (SRM) is a world-wide version of the trolley problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Every time I have seen an article gushing about SRM, I make the same comment. It is unsustainable, and you can’t stop it without disastrous consequences. It is like a heroin addiction. Big Oil continues polluting, and then BOOM.