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Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock

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The Impact of Volcanoes on the Earth

i've brushed up against a few people looking cloud brightening and other space basea solar geo engineering, which means putting stuff at l one between the earth and sun to block some of the sun's light. And so if we use sup one of these technologys tpotentially shade the planet, there'rs still other effects of things like the c o two precipitating into the oceans. i just kind of reached a point in two thousand 19 where i thought, you know, if not now, when? Ndi'm supposed to be a guy who writes books about am technical subjects, and know, why haven't i tackled this one yet?

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