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[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago

I can't wait to find out that geoengineering is probably sponsored by companies like BP, Shell, Santos, BHP, Rio tinto, Glencore, Roy Hill, ConocoPhillips, etc.

Whatever keeps the shareholders happy

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Geoengineering experiments to dim sunlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTDXHir380&t=62

"We marveled at our own magnificence, as we gave birth to AI."

"AI? You mean artificial intelligence?"

"A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky."


The Matrix

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always get such strong nostalgic vibes when I watch clips from The Matrix.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

I always get such strong nostalgic vibes when I watch clips from The Matrix.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago
[–] troed@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

This is incredibly dangerous. We lack knowledge of how all these interconnected systems affect oneanother and how quick - or slow - the feedback loops are.

Just by cutting down forests back in the 1500s we contributed to "the Little Ice age": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YLTbm2GNQ

[–] gnash@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

So it begins

ARIA will devote £50 million ($66.5 million) to funding various small-scale outdoor experiments to explore the effects of spreading aerosols into clouds.

  • 50 million
  • small scale
  • outdoor into clouds

the first contradicts the second and the second contradicts the third

If you put shit into real clouds its not an "experiment" its a live test with no way to control it

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Wasn't this also the plot of some Highlander movie?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I mean the route we're on right now is already apocalyptically bad. Neither works of fiction giving a cautionary tale of fiction, nor failing to fully understand what we're doing really hold any weight against the reality that we ARE cooking our planet.

Worse case scenario, we do what we were going to do anyway: change the climate into one that doesn't sustain human life.

I vote fuck it, if there's a chance it could work, let's give it a shot.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Of course, I think this is completely asinine. I can’t help but wonder, though, if researching it is necessary. There’s not nearly enough political will to stop environmental damage at the source, such as imposing strict regulations on fossil fuel companies.