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5. We've been injecting sulfates into the atmosphere for generations.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 04:44 PM
Mar 2023

It's called "air pollution." It is well understood that some of this air pollution in the form of sulfates does, in fact, reduce the solar flux, but it also makes our rivers and lakes into acid pits.

The solution to climate change is not ever more fantastic bizarre schemes to tear the shit out of our natural spaces with wind turbines, solar cells, moon dust and the precursor to sulfuric acid. It's to stop using fossil fuels entirely, for which there is one, and only one, approach that will work: Going nuclear against climate change.

The planet in our solar system that has the most sulfates, in the form of sulfuric acid and sulfur oxides is Venus. It has a high albedo, lots of CO2, and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead.

I hear these things and I can hardly believe I'm doing so. Seriously, Chernobyl was worse than blowing up the moon and turning all of our lakes and rivers into battery acid and all our wilderness into industrial parks?

How about we just burn all our forests and cover the planet with a cloud of smoke? Would that work?

We really, really, really need to get serious. None of this science fiction stuff is even close to being so.

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