Can We Air-Condition Our Way Out of Climate Change?
2026-06-24 21:19 UTC
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@TootSweet@lemmy.world 2026-06-25 00:12
Kevlak: Science Unit Blarkblark, your report on the Sol system? Blarkblark: Eight planets circle a mainline yellow star. Kevlak: So nothing interesting then? Blarkblark: Well, there is something that confuses me. Kevlak: Elaborate. Blarkblark: The third planet harbors life. Kevlak: That’s hardly unusual. Blarkblark: The dominant species on this planet… Kevlak: Get on with it. Blarkblark: They made their planet hotter, then decided they didn’t like it hotter, so they built devices to make their planet colder. Kevlak: Seems reasonable enough. Blarkblark: But they never stopped what made it hotter. Kevlak: Doesn’t that act against their purposes? Blarkblark: It gets stranger. The devices also make their planet hotter.
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@MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-06-25 03:35
Best result probably looks like Mars. Worst Venus. Either way, survival looks like trying to scrub the planet of any evidence you were ever there as you flee the solar-system in shame, or starting an Empire premised entirely on keeping others away from the home system, for fear of being outed. Maybe both.
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@phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2026-06-25 07:54
Someone doesn’t understand thermodynamics.
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@sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 2026-06-26 01:12
Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.