As we recklessly warm the planet by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, some industrial emissions also produce particles that reflect sunshine back into space, putting a check on global warming that we're only starting to understand. Climate activist Kelly Wanser asks: Can we engineer ways to harness this effect and further reduce warming? Learn more about the promises and risks of "cloud brightening" — and how it could help restore our climate to health.
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I was really hoping for a talk on this
It’s a redeaux of “scientific” theory to fight the Ice Age in the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmk7nAvpMXQ
When people will stop using the word theoretical as if it means hypothetical?
Only because “theoretical” can create any narrative without real science. Like climate change was global warming was climate cooling. Create a false crisis then profit from it.
Don’t scroll down, it’s not worth it
@skylerashe People are notoriously bad at fathoming the future.
Thank you.
@skylerashe good points!
However, I think your excellent comments will be over the heads of many, here!
@Kirstin Strand The sheep obey, the smart ones look at the data and figure out the lies the sheep eat.
If you wanna call yourselves “on the side of science” or “smart”, at least check the sources of whatever you say you agree with
@Belial I would have thought it’s more sheeplike to find a conspiracy theory and then believe it unquestionably. I honestly don’t understand what secret agenda people think scientist have.
I’m always amazed by how a lot of the most interesting solutions are based on simple ideas. The earth is getting too hot: let’s reflect sunlight!
Wouldn’t it be possible to do that without using carbon or other harmful particulates?
Get some Solar Panels. On a feed in tariff of Course.
Carbon is not a harmful molecule. It is the basis for all life forms on Earth. For instance, planting trees, they need more carbon dioxide because it is the very breath of the tree and all other plants on Earth. More carbon dioxide equals more vegetation. More vegetation equals more food and more oxygen. The United States right now has cleaner air and cleaner water than it as in decades. The hoax is about changing our system of government and will bankrupt our country leaving us to the mercy of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea to name a few. They have no mercy for you. They call you “Useful Idiots”! I call you traitors and dumbasses!
@QMAN 1 maybe you should research Methane Gases that is LETHAL and will kill everyone, Mr Know it all.
@QMAN 1 Carbon is absolutely not a harmful molecule. It does however trap heat energy. China is the worlds biggest investor in renewable energy. China has installed more than half of the worlds solar panels on Chinese soil since 2017. They are the leaders in this new technology. They might well call the USA dumbasses, or something similar, but its only because you are handing them the future of energy production on a silver platter while clinging onto coal like a moldy old safety blanket.
Our grand conceit will be our ruin.
Teflon on your pots and pans is great!
CFCs will make you more comfortable in your car!
Heartening to see that there is some hope.. even if it’s little. Hopefully in the next decade more people would wake up to this
Chemtrails confirmed.
Trump might not agree 😀 😀
This was a fantastic and balanced debate including moral hazard ethics. Great TED talk!
It was not a debate. TED talks never are.
What it is, is fear mongering for job security….
Protect the forests !
We can see how they manipulate the upper and lower atmosphere.
Once in history the phsychators fought for their right to be taken serious now we have adhs and waht not and now in history you climate chills fight to be takin serious thats even worse
I see the possibility. But I prefer to work on the cause, not symptoms. If the CO2 (or any other emitted gas) is the problem, I prefer to handle CO2. If I have a fever by virus, just suppressing the fever without handling the virus, this sounds like a short term solution for me. I really want to work on the cause and real cure. I see this is one option, but I don’t see this as the final solution.Still I thank to a nice talk.
Hitoshi Yamauchi exactly!
The solution lies hidden within the cause
Why not both? I think using both of these takes would give us better results
You’re absolutely right ! And that’s what she also thinks and says. This could be a temporary “solution” but not a real and definitive one, and we really need to work on CO2 emissions. She also says that this technique could be used only a few times so it isn’t a real solution that’s gonna save us all, and she doesn’t want anybody to rely on this solution. At first I thought, “is this really where we are now ? Finding those kind of solutions to save ourselves while we should work on the causes ?” and was really relieved at the end of the video when she said it wasn’t the miraculous solution !
The point is this might be a way to stop climate change from causing problems till we make the solution happen. But yes it’s not a fix and there will never be a fix in a society that only values profit. So move here to Canada my homie, where climate change makes it nicer outside.
Stop consuming! Breath in the air!
It’s reassuring and terrifying at the same time. Reassuring because we have ways to buy more time. But terrifying because I feel like if these measures work governments will use this as an excuse to no longer take carbon emissions seriously.
Why don’t you just leave well enough alone.
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE ANYWAY GUYS 😀
The Earth started out with volcanoes …with enough carbon spewing out to grow huge plant-life… which supported huge plant-eating animals….animals that couldn’t put out fires….so the fires just burned and burned….and the plants(who thrive on carbon) just grew and grew. The Earth eventually started to cool as the many volcanoes went away. The carbon levels plummeted so the huge plant life plummeted too…..along with the huge plant eating animals. Huge ice formations accumulated near the poles. The Earth balanced itself out with smaller plants and smaller animals. (Earth has a way of balancing itself out.) Humans were created and eventually learned how to put out the forest fires….and the carbon levels diminished again….so the plant life diminished too. Then came the democrats and the (AOC) SQUAD. They wanted to stop the production of carbon completely!!! But thank god Earth has a way of balancing itself out and created
Trump. Without carbon…. life on Earth is doomed…it’s a mathematical certainty. Democrats do not believe in facts….only themselves….Earth has a way of dealing with that too.