US considers 'sun blocking' to cool the Earth: What is it and does it really work?

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What is sun blocking and does it really work?
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Given much of the transition to renewable energy is planned to be solar this may be counterproductive. China is rolling out monumental amounts of solar at the moment, we can't just block the sun since it's part of the solution.

Unless we block the sun with a big solar panel!

Thatโ€™s a feature, not a bug. Using geo-engineering will take the pressure off of fossil fuel reduction policies. So why use solar power when you can happily continue burning coal and oil?

They lit an LED with a radio and a rectifier. Nothing futuristic involved at all.

I was mostly joking ๐Ÿ˜‚

Consider me successfully poe'd then. Seen so many people taking it seriously and claiming we need to focus on that instead of land based.