Ah, the giant air-conditioner idea again.
Why infrared in particular?
Ray is a science fiction reader. He finds things interesting without
necessarily finding them plausible.
I think Ray's first comment is pretty much the same as James' one. It's an
awfully roundabout way at the problem. Some snark from me: it does qualify
as geoengineering, because the planet is not actually zero-dimensional. The
neglect of the actual circulation of the atmosphere is pretty standard stuff
in geoengineering, as if global mean temperature were the problem rather
than a symptom of the problem.
I am not interested in solutions that don't address forcings and you
shouldn't be either. Trying to do an atmospheric energetics fix with a
reverse forcing is solving the wrong problem and won't work.
mt
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