Scientists say dehydrating the stratosphere could be plausible option to combat climate change

[admin]

A new study explores the possibility of removing water from the air before it enters the stratosphere, where water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas, to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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[Overlord Damon]

Let's take a system that is so complex our best supercomputers can't accurately model it, then poke it and see what happens. Even better that we all have to live with the results, right?

"Oh, everyone is dead? /sigh Well... that's unfortunate. But at least we finally stopped the war in Ukraine."

 

[Broadlands]

Presumably all of this bizarre and theoretical "geoengineering" will require transportation and none of it will be done using EVs. That means conventional vehicles will be used and that would add both water and CO2. Unintended consequences?

 

[sven]

Let's take a system that is so complex our best supercomputers can't accurately model it, then poke it and see what happens. Even better that we all have to live with the results, right?

"Oh, everyone is dead? /sigh Well... that's unfortunate. But at least we finally stopped the war in Ukraine."

I'm confident that a little cloud seeding over the tropics won't kill everyone. Some people are so dramatic.

 

[sven]

Presumably all of this bizarre and theoretical "geoengineering" will require transportation and none of it will be done using EVs. That means conventional vehicles will be used and that would add both water and CO2. Unintended consequences?

This is the mildest form of geoengineering I've read about. What a cunning sleuth you are. You just dismantled a scientific paper with 2 sentences in a comment section.

 

[Thomas Thompson]

Instead of doing the things that everyone can do to save this planet from a Venus-like fate, we're dreaming up Rube Goldberg solutions on a massive geo-engineering scale. If we enforce the laws already on the books and police the polluters, tax the rich to pay for it, we can reduce our emissions drastically. Unfortunately for everyone on the planet, there are billions of poor people who will do whatever is possible to survive and accumulate wealth, and damn the planet!

 

[Broadlands]

You write that "we can reduce our emissions drastically" Yes we can... but that will take none of the CO2 already added out of the atmosphere. Moreover, it will make the energy transition to renewables and EVs very difficult and expensive because conventional vehicles do all of the transportation involved with delivering and installing renewables like solar and wind farm projects. That will add more CO2 which will increase photosynthetic productivity and turn the Earth greener as is already seen from NASA satellites. That will help to improve agriculture for all those poor people you complain about.

 

[cecilia fx]

Let's take a system that is so complex our best supercomputers can't accurately model it, then poke it and see what happens. Even better that we all have to live with the results, right?

"Oh, everyone is dead? /sigh Well... that's unfortunate. But at least we finally stopped the war in Ukraine."

well, aren't you a ray of sunshine

 

[bolide]

Did somebody mention contrails? There are thousands of passenger jetliners traveling just below the stratosphere every single day, incidentally producing a bit of this dehydrating effect with their contrails. What if we could add something to these planes, or their fuel, that would multiply their nucleating effect? If atmospheric dehydration is worth anything, it will need to be done at scale. Perhaps we have the infrastructure for that already in place.