It seems pretty wild that we would even think about deliberate climate engineering. We're dealing with an incredibly complex system, the only place we have to live, and one where "harmless" actions before have had devastating unforeseen effects decades later. The lesson we should have learned we need to stop pumping stuff into the atmosphere and oceans until something bad happens, not "let's pump more stuff into the atmosphere."

Some random small group of people get to take these risks for all humanity? No thanks.

It just seems collectively insane to NOT be researching the hell out of the possibility that we could regulate our global heat balance issues for a cost of a few tens of billions of dollars a year.

Especially when the alternative solution to global warming is… degrowth. Which is just not going to work functionally as a political policy in a competitive world.

Fossil fuel use will decrease significantly… eventually.

Btw, did you know that if the USA replaced farmland currently growing biofuels with solar, that land area would produce 4x the current total electricity use of the entire nation?

We need to buy time — we can’t let the permafrost melt because “stupid humans deserve it”

>Some random small group of people

Like, say, petroleum exporters?

everything we do is climate engineering, just not the deliberate kind

Thing is we're not stopping. So given the fact that we are not stopping and won't stop, climate engineering starts to look like a decent Sr ond choice. I mean it doesn't take much for it to be better than nothing.