My initial sense is that China’s method is focused on controlling rainfall, which might mitigate some of the effects of climate change (e.g. reduce drought in some areas, reduce hurricane strength) but not actually prevent it. The ideas I had in mind were more emergency approaches to actually stopping climate change either by rapidly removing carbon (e.g. algae in oceans) or reducing solar radiation absorbs on the Earth’s surface (making clouds/oceans more reflective, space mirrors).
I thought China has already done some low-key geoengineering?
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/kelly-wanser-climate-interventions/
Thanks for sharing!
My initial sense is that China’s method is focused on controlling rainfall, which might mitigate some of the effects of climate change (e.g. reduce drought in some areas, reduce hurricane strength) but not actually prevent it. The ideas I had in mind were more emergency approaches to actually stopping climate change either by rapidly removing carbon (e.g. algae in oceans) or reducing solar radiation absorbs on the Earth’s surface (making clouds/oceans more reflective, space mirrors).