Experiments to dim the sun given green light

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25. Yes.

When other countries ramp up carbon emissions so much that it wipes out our reductions. What to do? Impose tariffs if they don't abide by our rules?

Oddly, those tariffs might reduce emissions. Less imported crap-manufacture = less off-shored carbon emissions. All that crap we get from China or Mexico or Vietnam--that's on *their* carbon budgets, we just pay them to emit the carbon ... yes ... in our name. And by any means necessary.

Note that last Sunday I plopped 25 species of mostly cactus seeds into pony packs and covered them with panes of glass to trap in moisture. Monday when I came home from work I found the sun that managed to get under the back porch, past the crepe myrtle and Mexican fan palms, was too intense and I didn't like the temperature of the mini-greenhouse I set up. My response? Strung up 40% shade cloth. It's a 2-fer. It'll reduce the insolation of the germination area and it'll reduce the insolation of the wall for the master bedroom--should have done that 10 years ago, to be honest.

What they're planning is short-term--it'll be washed out of the atmosphere in a few weeks. Given the area involved and the way the atmosphere works, if they reduced the insolation by 100% it would produce darkness in a shifting area for a week or two before dispersing to near no effect.

It's one of the two geo-engineering approaches I favor; the other is seeding the ocean with Fe and Ca and letting phytoplankton harvest all that excess solar energy to produce biomass.