Hacker News with Generative AI: Geoengineering

Geoengineering (Wrong 2) (nealstephenson.substack.com)
Because of my book Termination Shock I am occasionally contacted by journalists writing stories about the idea of geoengineering—specifically Solar Radiation Management (SRM), a proposed way of temporarily cooling down the earth by putting aerosols into the stratosphere. These will reflect a small fraction of the sun’s light back into space before it can warm things up down here.
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It? (undark.org)
In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included a device designed to spray a sea-salt mist off the deck of a docked aircraft carrier. The light-reflecting aerosols, the scientists hoped, would hang in the air and temporarily cool things down in the area.
Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide (scientificamerican.com)
Scientists plan to seed part of the Pacific Ocean with iron to trigger a surface bloom of phytoplankton that will hopefully suck carbon dioxide out of the air, reviving field trials of a geoengineering technique that has been taboo for more than a decade.
The Battle over Blocking the Sun (foreignaffairs.com)
Scientists propose glacier geoengineering to avoid sea level rise (science.org)
2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering? (nature.com)