{"id":580772,"date":"2023-06-30T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/we-cant-engineer-ourselves-out-of-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:09:00","slug":"we-cant-engineer-ourselves-out-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-cant-engineer-ourselves-out-of-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"#We can\u2019t engineer ourselves out of the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Let\u2019s face it \u2014 climate change is humanity\u2019s greatest screw-up. We\u2019ve known about it for almost a century. The science<\/a> is clear. And yet, we\u2019ve done nothing. It\u2019s a f**king embarrassment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, finally, global leaders are scrambling to clean up the mess. But, even though most of the climate solutions we need already exist<\/a>, we can\u2019t seem to get our arses in gear to deploy them at the pace and scale required.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, the world is heating up, and we are failing to cool it down. Humans <\/span>emitted<\/span><\/a> more <\/span>CO<\/span>2<\/span> into the atmosphere last year than ever before (uh\u2026WTF?).<\/span><\/p>\n

Understandably, leaders are scared shitless. Which is pushing them to explore some pretty dumb, and outright dangerous, ideas. One of their worst brainwaves is geoengineering \u2014 AKA playing God with the Earth\u2019s climate. (<\/span>\u201cGeoengineering\u201d as used here does not refer to carbon removal technologies which are, to the best of our knowledge, pretty legit.)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of these proposals include <\/span>brightening clouds, altering the ocean\u2019s chemistry, or shooting particles into the atmosphere to dim the light of the sun \u2014 what could go wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crystals, jets, and magnets \u2014 is this how to make cooling greener?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While these proposals might sound like something from a dystopian sci-fi flick, it\u2019s actually remarkably easy, and <\/span>cheap<\/span><\/a>, to alter the Earth\u2019s climate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Solar geoengineering is one of the more controversial of these \u201csolutions\u201d. Its most popular derivative, stratospheric aerosol injection, involves shooting dust into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth\u2019s surface. The tech was inspired by volcanic clouds which have been known to cool the entire planet for years following a major eruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Clouds increase the reflectivity of the Earth\u2019s surface. Stratospheric aerosol injection aims to replicate this effect by spraying dust into the upper atmosphere, in hopes to cool the climate. Credit: Woovii\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>