<story><title>Volcanoes can affect climate</title><url>https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yongjik</author><text>The problem with climate geo-engineering solution is not that they won&amp;#x27;t work, but rather that they don&amp;#x27;t solve the problem we need to solve.  As people say, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  If we had stopped digging, maybe we could employ other solutions (like geoengineering) to get out of the hole.&lt;p&gt;But we&amp;#x27;re nowhere near the &amp;quot;stop digging&amp;quot; stage; in fact, we are at &amp;quot;we &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; be digging at maximum speed now, because at least we&amp;#x27;re not digging noticeably faster every coming year&amp;quot; stage.&lt;p&gt;Whatever we do, we will need to restructure the global economy to drastically reduce CO2 emission.  Any potential &amp;quot;alternative&amp;quot; solution is an auxiliary measure we could employ &lt;i&gt;on top of&lt;/i&gt; decarbonization; it cannot replace decarbonization.</text></comment>
<story><title>Volcanoes can affect climate</title><url>https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somat</author><text>When I am in the right sort of contrary mood I like to do a little mustache twirl and boldly proclaim.&lt;p&gt;We worked hard to get the sulfur compounds out of our fuels... What if that was a long term mistake. Perhaps we should be putting extra sulfur in our jet fuels.&lt;p&gt;Acid rain was not that bad... was it?</text></comment>