While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions.

Then I realized, that doing so would block visible light. Plants need the light to grow, and we need the plants to breathe and eat. Obviously, this is not going to be a long term solution. Oh, and how do you even make sure the volcanic eruption doesn’t spiral out of control and suddenly spew out 50 times the ash we were aiming for. Oh, and volcanoes also spew CO2 and even nastier gases, so… It sounded so good while I was still in the shower. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

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Isn’t this what happened in the Matrix?

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We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

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It’s exactly what happened in the Matrix. Cypher turned on that volcano, and it solved global warming. Good job Cypher.

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Ignorance is bliss

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ONCE AND FOR ALL.

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This guy thinks we can control volcanoes.

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Quality shower thought. Once you leave the shower, and give it some more thought, you can also flush the idea down the drain.

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Happy campers are poopin their Pampers

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Upvote for you, dear PUSA fan!

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You get some paper machet, you get some altroids, you drop in some diet coke, and BOOM! You got a 4th grade science teacher failing you because you did the project wrong, and (airquotes) “didn’t pay attention”.

…what were we talking about.

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If you want to make a shade without choking life to death how about a big parasol in space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

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Ideally, it would allow plants to get the visible light, but block much of the heat. I don’t know which material would do the trick though. Maybe some sort of glass could work as a band pass filter.

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Maybe take a bath next time!

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More water, more ideas. What could go wrong.

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Ha that’s a shower thought!

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Should have also posted this in LinkedIn. Some of those aphorism are actually dumber than my idea, so it should fit right in.

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