Will Iceland's Volcano Boost Geoengineering?

The hubris required to believe you can control the American economy pales in comparison to the hubris required to favor "engineering" the climate.

What are the variables? What are the unintended consequences? How easy will it be to roll back (is it even possible to go back to the original state)?

The blind faith in the "elites" that is required to support geo-engineering is astounding.

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If people equate geoengineering with dirty, gritty, ugly volcanic ash that screws up their travel plans, then this eruption will be a setback for geoengineering.

It won't matter that actual geoengineering would be much tidier and less disruptive.

My guesses: Europeans will be much more wary of geoengineering. I doubt the rest of the world's opinions will change one way or the other.

But the eruption will be used by environmentalists as a post-hoc explanation for why global temperatures are at or below the bottom of all the climate models' estimates.

We definitely shouldn't start geoengineering anytime soon. I suspect we'll have the capability to cheaply remove carbon from the atmosphere in a less than 50 years anyway.

I'm all for it. I'd like to move the science forward by tossing some of the commentators here as well as some of the bloggers into the volcano to see if we can induce the gods below to keep erupting and counter global warming. Where do we donate money?!