Climate change: some reasons for our failures

[joshcryer]

17. There are already proposals to dump minerals in the oceans.

Which would reduce acidification and reduce the carbon in the atmosphere.

My thought is that atmospheric albedo changing injections will come first, because we're going to have to deal with massive temperature extremes once the arctic goes, and it won't be a long term thing, it'll be a quick dust bowl type scenario where we are like "damn we need to get shit done, now!"

And note: I don't say necessarily sulphates, though they are proven to work (volcanoes) they will hurt the ozone layer so it'd probably be something else. I'd suggest other possibilities but they tend to come with woo in a cursory google search. I just figure it won't be sulphates except for maybe the first proof of concepts.

After that I think that the PTB will actually use the oceans as sinks for the carbon (since the oceans already are massive sinks for carbon) and will pollute the fuck out of them.

Albedo changing geoengineering will turn the skies white.

Oceanic acidification geoengineering will turn the seas brown (OK, probably not, but it's a nice metaphor).