Okay, so like there wonât be anything bad in doing this? 
Oh, wait.
What are the downsides to this? There are many. According to the companyâs FAQ, the effect is uncertain, it may deplete the ozone layer, if itâs ever stopped the Earth may rapidly heat back up, it could lead to a perception that the world has âfixedâ climate change, and it âcould lead to geopolitical tensions and disagreements about its deployment, regulation, and potential side effects.â
billionaires always choosing the stupid-as-fuck-âsolutionâ? tell me more;
The book is about a solar geoengineering project conceived by a Texas oil-industry billionaire named T.R. Schmidt.[1] Schmidt builds a launcher on the Texas-Mexico border to fire sulfur into the air, a form of stratospheric aerosol injection intended to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight into space
An excellent book but not a damned roadmap
i am no chemist, nor climatologist, but isnât SO2 key ingredient in acid rain?
Well, it sounds like youâre a better chemist than Sam Altman, despite him being a tech billionaire and so presumed genius. Because absolutely it is.
So we diminish the effectiveness of solar, which means we need to burn more fossil fuels, which need to be even dirtier and cause more pollution because weâre burning more fossil fuels.
Brilliant!
Thatâs the kind of plan a sentient A.I. that hated humans would think of.
wellâŠ
one can actually see the acceleration from ca 1990 on quite clear; the darker, pretty narrow band on the bottom of the curve is basically all the years from 1940 til 1992:
I was not aware of the scale.
That radar image. It looked like a hurricane hit the area. 
