Doug
Thanks for a great presentation, which I watched last night.
May I suggest an addition? Tropospheric cooling could also be done by a widespread thin haze over the ocean, which would theoretically reduce radiative forcing about the same as brightening clouds. (Lars Ahlm 2017, Marine cloud brightening – as effective without clouds, https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/17/13071/2017/) The paper’s rationale is that haze lasts much longer before raining out, which compensates for its lower instantaneous negative forcing.
Such a haze would provide a lot less ‘lumpy’ cooling than MCB and could provide smoother control options.
Of course, someone must think of a safe, low-cost haze maker. Our ‘Climate Photocatalyst’ would make such a haze, and simultaneously accelerate removal of atmospheric methane and other short-lived climate forcers. Like everyone else though, we are open to funding to test the aerosol.
Clive
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