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Simpler solutions are at hand, of course:
1. Stop driving so much
2. Stop eating so much
3. Stop having so much
4. Stop fucking so much
5. Stop believing our own PR
But since changing human behavior will never, ever, ever, ever be tried in a million years, let alone happen, let's try out some shiny new technologies.
Sulfate aerosol injection (which will do zero for ocean acidification) and which may lead to, as you put it, unintended consequences, like changes in crop weather, alterations in cloud formations and rainfall. If it worked, it would also give rich nations a permanent whip hand over the poor global majority, since they would be the ones paying for and implementing the aerosol technology ("Nice country you got there - wouldn't want anything to happen to your harvest, so support our trade treaty, m'kay?";
Carbon sequestration (which could best be leveraged by, oh, I don't know, LEAVING EXISTING FORESTS THE FUCK ALONE, but I digress), and assumes that either bio-sequestration will use trees/biological systems that can survive a rapidly destabilizing climate while avoiding conversion to plywood, or that a global system of (undefined) carbon-sucking machines will vacuum a minimum of 6 billion tons/year from the atmosphere, a capacity which must always increase in tandem with our economic growth;
Reefs, fisheries and oceans - not sure how that would work here - maybe putting giant cooling coils in coral reefs? Dumping vast quantities of lime in the oceans to fight acidification? Scooping up algae and jellyfish blooms with nets? Oh, almost forgot to mention that since oxygen content drops as ocean temperatures increase, it might be a little late in terms of actually saving species we've grown accustomed to eating.
Ocean Warming - Lots more heat here than in the atmosphere, as you know, so much more thermal inertia to deal with. All the way back in 2014, ocean sunfish were confirmed in Prince William Sound, skipjack tuna caught off Yakutat Bay and Humboldt Squid off Sitka. All tropical species, all found in Alaskan waters, but no worries- we've got . . . technology! Maybe tow some icebergs to the right spots?
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