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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 15:38:05 JST Aral Balkan

   “British scientists could experiment with techniques to block sunlight as part of a £50m (€58m) government-funded scheme to combat global warming. The geo-engineering project is set to be given the go-ahead within weeks and could see scientists explore techniques including launching clouds of reflective particles into the atmosphere or using seawater sprays to make clouds brighter. Another method involves thinning natural cirrus clouds, which act as heat-trapping blankets.”

   – Irish Independent, today

   Oh, ffs, what could possibly go wrong.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 16:27:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • can

     @can Should we shutter the literal handful of corporations responsible for 90% of all this?

     What are you, a communist?

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     can (can@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 16:27:55 JST can

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     @aral should we stop flying? No. Should we stop eating meat? No! Should we stop burning fossil fuels? Hello no! Ok then, should we put massive amounts of a different kind of gas into the atmosphere, so that it might help a bit with our conscience while doing the above-mentioned things, while we have zero clues about adverse effects? Yes, sounds reasonable!

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 16:31:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Antanicus

     @antanicus Yep.

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     Antanicus (antanicus@puntarella.party)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 16:31:40 JST Antanicus

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     @aral anything to divert the attention from the only sensible thing to do: abolish capitalism

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     Androgynes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞 (black_flag@syzito.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:32:44 JST Androgynes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞

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     @aral You know, I'm pretty sure we have a foolproof way of reversing climate change. Its called "stop burning that shit!"

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 00:58:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Martin Rundkvist

     @mrundkvist Indeed. Stop burning oil.

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     Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 00:58:02 JST Martin Rundkvist

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     @aral We've been making random geoengineering interventions for 300 years. There's an argument that we should learn to do intentional ones.