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by mercutio2 2338 days ago
Sea ice radiative forcing and overall albedo effects are on the order of 10% of well mixed greenhouse gas radiative forcing.

Short term cloud layer albedo effects are even smaller.

If we switched all our greenhouse gas emissions to nuclear, I agree there’s huge room for localized waste heat. But reducing albedo effects isn’t going to help if we keep emitting greenhouse gases.