• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Do people seriously think we could “reverse” climate change?

    That’s not how the climate works.

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      4 hours ago

      Remember it used to be called global warming, because that’s what’s actually happening. But morons thought a cold winter day disproved global warming, so it was renamed climate change.
      And yes we can reverse global warming, but obviously that won’t recreate polar or mountain ice, or lower sea levels quickly, but we can get the temperature down to stop it first, which will also curb the increase in natural disasters, then the restoring of sea levels and ice will take at least decades and probably centuries.

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        3 hours ago

        My point is that slowing down the heating of the planet is doable (though you’d need the majority of the world contributing, which is highly unlikely to happen), but we can’t reverse the damage that has already been done, which some people seem to think is possible.

        We’re not as powerful as we think we are.

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          There are gasses and particles that can be released into the atmosphere that will reflect sunlight and warmth away from earth. In theory that could be done very quickly.

          We’re not as powerful as we think we are.

          We could cause a new ice age easily. Just fire off a few percent of the nukes, and we will revert to an ice age almost immediately.
          Of course a side effect would be massive starvation.