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You should read up about how much of toxic chemicals get released into the atmosphere during new year celebrations.
by rojcyk 4y ago
You should read up about how much of toxic chemicals get released into the atmosphere during new year celebrations.
- jaggs 4y agoI think you're missing the point a little. Which is that for this to 'work' in any meaningful sense, it has to be scaled up to a planetary level of significant dispersion. This will almost certainly have consequences which we can't model, because of the scale. What does it mean to block out the sun across the whole planet? Photosynthesis on which we all rely to survive, needs sunlight. Even small changes can have dramatic effects on plant growth etc. It's a crazy idea, dreamed up by scientists who read too much science fiction.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoSurely some volcanoes have ejected a fair amount of sulfur into the environment? How was the local weather affected by them?
- kolinko 4y agoIf I remember correctly, there was a mini-ice aga in medieval times because of an erruption that was significant enough.
- numbsafari 4y agoAsk the dinosaurs.
- sofixa 4y agoGlobal weather has been impacted to such extents (resulting in multiple massive famines) that there's even a term for that - volcanic winter.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoSurely you jest; Only Man could affect global weather!
- defgeneric 4y agoThe 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo is often cited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatubo#Global_environmental_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatub...