No Quick Fix -not even a smelly one?

George Monbiot's response to the idea I blogged a week or so back to counter global warning by adding sulphur to the upper atmosphere.

By re-engineering the planet’s systems we could risk invoking as great a catastrophe as the one we are trying to prevent.

The main basis for this seems to be this research:

In 2002, the Journal of Climate published an astonishing proposition: that the great droughts which had devastated the Sahel region of Africa had been caused in part by sulphate pollution in Europe and North America. Our smoke, the paper suggested, was partly responsible for the famines which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the 1970s and 1980s(6).

The underlying analysis of why this came about offers little comfort, though need not fatally flaw the plan provided that there are mechanisms to attempt to redress the losses of the losers in any such global plan.
Monbiot.com � No Quick Fix
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