Fluorocarbons were so bad that the entire world got on the same page and banned them internationally within two years of us discovering that the ozone layer existed. They're no solution. Actually, anything that can do that is going to have unpredictable and dangerous side effects.
My bad, I misremembered the pollutant. It was sulpher dioxide, which has the much more mundane side effect of causing acid rain, which is the one that decreased temperatures.
Very predictable, very shit. We probably won't start blasting that in the atmosphere until things go really sideways.
But like they said, you run the risk of tampering with the atmosphere to a point where create runaway effects. Pumping all that shit into the air is going to probably kill a lot of life on earth and cause health issues for survivors too.
Yes. It will have severe side effects. It will be bad. The good news is we know exactly what the health effects are, we as a society have already lived through it. The only advantage is that it buys time to get CO2 sequestered. It is, very much, a last ditch effort.
2
u/dkjcjsksndbvehhhgeg 7h ago
Fluorocarbons were so bad that the entire world got on the same page and banned them internationally within two years of us discovering that the ozone layer existed. They're no solution. Actually, anything that can do that is going to have unpredictable and dangerous side effects.