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Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I mean the effects of climate engineering as pretty much impossible to predict completely. I'm not sure you can even rule out for sure that it'd effect Africa if they did some climate engineering in Alaska.

Even if you have most of the factors - with those kinds of things there's always an off-chance that it interrupt bird migration and that fucks up something else and then suddenly it has an impact on air temperatures and a lot of stuff changes.

Relying on climate engineering instead of trying to prevent the catastrophe that's coming is just stupid...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Absolutely retarded but here we are pushing the pedal to the metal. Climate wars here we come!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.

Earlier this year, scientists at the University of Washington sprayed sea-salt particles across the flight deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet, docked in Alameda in San Francisco Bay.

Using Earth system computer models of the climate in 2010 and 2050, they simulated the impacts of two cloud brightening operations carried out over different regions of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean, one in the subtropics near California and one in the mid-latitudes near Alaska.

The 2010 simulation suggested the operation near Alaska would lower the risk of dangerous heat exposure in the target region by 55% – equivalent to 22 million people-days per summer – while the closer subtropical test would cause smaller, but still significant gains of 16%.

In simulations of the more disrupted climate of 2050, however, the same two operations produced very different results because there were fewer clouds, higher base temperatures and different ocean current patterns, most importantly a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

could.

What a BS article. It doesn't even explain what paper used what mechanism for this conclusion. Baity headline, article mostly talks about something else, and the main thing isn't properly explained.

I could always build a model that shows something something could.

I could also build a model showing that geo-enginerring by one region will be beneficial to the other regions.

Now what?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The whole article can be boiled down to 'America bad, Europe Good!'