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Is Geoengineering Worth The Gamble? (w/ Gernot Wagner)

The Climate Pod

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Let's Stop Emissions Overnight

The late paul cruson noble lauriat wante pro on the prize for a science leading up to the discovery of the ozon hole and us getting on withfixing it. He wrote this very speculative essay that basically talked about the need to cut emissions, but if we were to cut emissions overnight,. Let's say. Global average temperatures might actually increase fairly rapidly, fairly dramatically. Why? Because of all the other gunk that we emit when we emit c o two. S o two tiny reflective particles. It kills six to eight million people or so per year in our trouble sphere where we live. We're not killing anyone directly. But they are health effects, negative ones

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