| We can solve this if we focus on what we want to achieve: 1) We want to prevent heat waves of 40+ C, hurricanes, droughts, very cold winters etc 2) We want to prevent antarctic ice sheets from melting and increasing the sea level 3) We want to prevent CO2 reaching 700ppm when it can start to cause serious problems with ocean acidification. Only way to achieve this is to develop technology that would allow to control the weather, because if we can restore the deserts to moderately green state, their biosphere would consume all of the CO2 that we have released so far. A very promising way to build weather controlling machine is building large number of autonomous hot air balloons, which by controlling their reflexivity can either heat up the air above clouds or act as artificial clouds by reflecting some of the sunlight. But unfortunately we are not even looking for solutions like this, all the suggestions about geoengineering are dismissed out of hand, activists try to block experiments like the recent one form harvard, and proposed solutions end up as some combination of not eating meat, not flying, not having children, adding high co2 taxes, or subsidising renewables that are not profitable on their own. |