turchin comments on Crazy Global Warming Solution Ideas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: turchin 25 October 2015 08:56:01AM 0 points [-]

Nuclear explosions inside supervolcanos could result in temporary volcanic winter and stop runaway global warming The same could be done by large fires in forests in taiga in Siberia.

But injecting water in the upper stratosphere may be cheapest solution as it will result in small but reflective ice clouds.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 25 October 2015 12:51:21PM 3 points [-]

I doubt you could set off a supervolcano with such a method, but if you did, you would have a lot more to worry about than global warming.

Comment author: turchin 25 October 2015 02:25:16PM *  0 points [-]

It may be smaller volcano like Pinatubo or remote one. But the main thing is urgency. If we have runaway global warming starting from methane release, any method is good.