Could drying the stratosphere help cool the planet?

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ^ | February 28, 2024 | NOAA

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I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.

[linMcHlp]

U.S. Constitution

Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.

Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Well played sir!

[guest7]

"While human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are by far the most important driver of climate change..."

Total lie!

"These people should be publicly executed."

"CO2 , The Gas of Life"-Dr. William Happer (start at 3:30)

In the late 1800's:

Max Planck

and

Karl Schwarzschild

proved CO2 is the "Gas of Life", and not a "Greenhouse Gas".

[GenXPolymath]

It wouldn’t be all that hard to add either carbon black or sulfur to jet fuel in a few percentages there are over 100,000 stratospheric level flights per day look at that number again. There was a noticeable cooling effect when the airlines were grounded in 2020 due to the lack of water vapor injected into the upper atmosphere by jet exhaust which is mostly water vapor. You can tip the balance in favor of heat reflection by using micro aerosols in jet fuel there will be a rapid and long lasting cooling effect the sheer volume of flights especially over the polar regions would rapidly cool the upper atmosphere. So yes from a scientific perspective this would work how cold you want to make it is entirely different story. Put too much aerosols up and you have the same effect as a large super volcano which in the geological past has caused years without summers, in human history the River Thames froze solid after the Indonesian super volcano.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029390-700-past-blast-the-lost-volcano-that-set-off-an-ice-age/

If I was an evil super genius stratospheric aerosols would be how I kick off the population reset down to under a billion what the planet can sustain on it’s existing resources not going off world for the asteroid belt or the moon.

[TexasGator]

“Why would they want to cool the planet? We are not even close to optimum plant growth levels of CO2”

With cooling we can allow CO2 concentrations to rise.

[SisterK]

Barium and Aluminum.... or, for short, BAAL.

Boom!