[silicaroach]

Years of fomenting fear of 'climate change' and painting it as a dire crisis has opened up the general public to the predations of snake oil peddlers. With the public demanding immediate action and an immediate fix, they are primed to be ready to accept any and all proposed solutions. In this case the proposal is another instance of geoengineering a body of water that human science is still far from understanding in its role in the planet's climate. We still do not completely understand ocean chemistry nor its effect on the climate and consequently cannot model long term effects. Perhaps it's time to accept that just as it took a long time to create the current problem and it will take a long time to correct it. There is no silver bullet.

[cainxinth]

First, climate change is a dire crisis. Full stop.

Second, the authors didn’t characterize this idea as a silver bullet or anything like that. Nor did they say we should start implementing it en masse immediately. Their exact words were:

> The U.S. government needs to start testing it now, before the climate system spins off into an even more disastrous state.

[pauldenton]

People are misconstruing an untamed nature with climate change. We had devastating Hurricanes, Fires and floods long before the first internal combustion engine It also seems like climate activists never define the correct climate that they are trying to restore, making them a parody of conservatism where any change is a bad change because it overturns the status quo. Look at Bjorn Lomborg tracking Climate-related disaster deaths to get a data driven rather than narrative driven understanding