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by jaggs 1266 days ago
Who knows? Nobody, especially on a global scale, which is what they're suggesting.
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We have natural experiments where sulfur aerosols were injected. The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, for example. It injected 17 megatonnes of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, causing a global cooling of 0.4 C and a northern hemisphere cooling of 0.5-0.6 C. This also affected ozone, which suggests aerosols other than sulfuric acid droplets might be a better idea.
Would we diffuse it in the same way at the same speed? If not, would the results be any different?