Andrew Song
Humans: We can’t solve global warming. Mother Nature: Look, dumbass. I’ve been showing you how. Get sulfur high enough into the atmosphere and Earth cools. Need me to make it more obvious? Fine. Here’s a giant mountain near the equator that shoots lava into the sky. Humans: Volcano scary. Mother Nature: Fine. The oil and gas you’re already pulling out of the ground often comes with sulfur too. You already remove it at industrial scale with the Claus process. I literally packaged the warming fuel and the feedstock for cooling together, including sour oil and gas fields in the tropics so all have to do it make it go up. Humans: Okay but what if we throw soup at a painting and seize the means of production?
Ben Noll
The eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia 🌋 Preliminary estimates suggest some sulfur dioxide reached the upper atmosphere — but only a tiny fraction of the amount released by Mount Pinatubo in 1991, which temporarily cooled the planet.