Interesting that regulations put in place in 2020 reducing sulphur pollution from ships may have contributed to a huge jump in North Atlantic ocean temperature (the sulphur pollution seeds clouds with a lot of droplets which reflects sunlight back into space, thus reducing the planet's temperature)

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/16 ... 5169930241

Here is a discussion from MIT about it in 2018 predicting the regulations would raise the planet's temperature.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techno ... rming/amp/

It brings up a thought about possibly enlarging the paradigm from just reducing carbon dioxide pollution...to manipulating how much sunlight reaches the Earth in the first place. From seeding clouds, giant solar collectors in space, finding ways to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after it gets there. Who knows...

Interesting idea about solar collectors.

To quote Dr. Frawnkensteen [sic]:
"IT JUST MIGHT WORK!"

freeman3 wrote:Interesting that regulations put in place in 2020 reducing sulphur pollution from ships may have contributed to a huge jump in North Atlantic ocean temperature (the sulphur pollution seeds clouds with a lot of droplets which reflects sunlight back into space, thus reducing the planet's temperature)

https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/16 ... 5169930241

Here is a discussion from MIT about it in 2018 predicting the regulations would raise the planet's temperature.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techno ... rming/amp/

It brings up a thought about possibly enlarging the paradigm from just reducing carbon dioxide pollution...to manipulating how much sunlight reaches the Earth in the first place. From seeding clouds, giant solar collectors in space, finding ways to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after it gets there. Who knows...

I love stuff like this: the unintended consequence (even though the smart folks at MIT predicted it. It's so hard to get policy right, or even understand what it's going to do. You have an idea, or a goal, but you never know anything until it's out in the wild.