[HN Gopher] Refreezing Earth's poles feasible and cheap, new stu...
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       Refreezing Earth's poles feasible and cheap, new study finds
        
       Author : rmason
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-09-18 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | steve_adams_86 wrote:
       | This is frighteningly inexpensive - if it did work, I worry it
       | would alleviate the necessary concerns to find permanent
       | solutions.
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       | The world could easily afford this. Some individuals in the world
       | could easily afford this. It's too easy.
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       | Perhaps it could reduce other issues and actually prevent various
       | species-specific catastrophes around the poles. As a conservation
       | effort it might make sense.
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       | I do worry about downstream effects. People far smarter than I am
       | are researching this, but there are so many potential knock on
       | effects.
       | 
       | Even so, I'm glad to see progress being made in this kind of
       | research. That's a big step up from my childhood.
        
       | Ancalagon wrote:
       | Cheap fix, cheap way to make more problems in the long run
        
       | jaggs wrote:
       | These stupid geo-engineering 'solutions' are a disaster waiting
       | to happen. Morons.
        
         | Nomentatus wrote:
         | Disaster is a possibility - but note that your answer implies
         | that the climate emergency isn't, you know, an emergency; since
         | in emergencies corners are frequently cut and some chances
         | taken. I'm wary too, but I'm convinced the emergency word isn't
         | just puffery.
        
           | jaggs wrote:
           | Totally agree with you about the emergency, but to believe
           | that we can fix the climate crisis by throwing more
           | speculative technology at the problem - with no real idea of
           | what the unintended consequences will be - is total madness.
           | 
           | Not to mention the fact that no one person or nation has the
           | right to experiment with everyone's existence just because
           | they 'think' it will work. At least on paper. Meanwhile we
           | could be working towards real solutions instead of this
           | foolishness. Sorry, I get really annoyed with these idiots.
        
       | fire wrote:
       | lol I feel like this is more or less exactly what led to the
       | earthwide frozen wasteland in Snowpiercer
        
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       | timoth3y wrote:
       | "Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct,
       | plausible -- and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
        
       | hasmanean wrote:
       | Well be paying the pole tax in perpetuity for yearly "aerosol
       | treatment."
        
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