Someone Is Going to Dim the Sun and Breaching 1.5C
Some notes & quotes from recent reads:
Someone Is Going To Dim the Sun, and It Will Be Soon
Quotes:
100 planes injecting sulfur particles into the stratosphere would dim the sun by about 1%, and cool the earth by about 1°C.
Spraying a form of sulfur from a plane is incredibly cheap. A full programme would cost less than $20b per year. That’s much cheaper than carbon removal ($600b per year, to remove just 10% of annual emissions @ $100 / tCO2).
Modifying the earth like this is called geoengineering, and blocking out the sun with particles is called Solar Radiation Management (SRM).
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