"Easy" Way to Stop Climate Change!

[taiwan_girl]

"Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint

In 2021, researchers at Purdue University announced that they had developed the whitest paint on Earth. The color is so white that it can reflect over 98% of light. This is particularly useful because light generates heat — and we here on Earth are running a bit hot these days.

If used on a building, the researchers say, the paint would reduce the temperature on the surface, lowering the temps inside and decreasing the need for air conditioning. But what if there was an even bigger application, like reducing the temperature of the entire planet?

According to Jeremy Munday, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, who researches clean technology, if a material like Purdue's paint covered 1-2% of the Earth's surface, the amount of light being bounced back into space would reduce the amount of heat being absorbed by the planet enough to stabilize global temperatures."

LOL

https://www.businessinsider.com/global-warming-purdue-white-paint-climate-change-2023-7

[89th]

Any plot to adjust the macro climate of earth will likely result in the extinction of humans. The climate and ecosystem is so incomprehensibly complex and has been fine tuned over millions and billions of years, I'd just leave it on cruise control.

[Copper]

In order to make 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint

We would use every drop of fossil fuel on the planet

So we wouldn't have to worry about the problem coming back

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in "Easy" Way to Stop Climate Change!:

Any plot to adjust the macro climate of earth will likely result in the extinction of humans. The climate and ecosystem is so incomprehensibly complex and has been fine tuned over millions and billions of years, I'd just leave it on cruise control.

That's the thing. It's not on cruise control. We're doing a pretty good job trying to throw it over the guardrail.

The debate about to what extent we could actually achieve this is a legitimate one, but conversation stoppers such as "we don't have any material influence so it's not worth worrying about" or "we're completely doomed" shouldn't even be entertained.