So I was watching a video the other day about a massive volcano that erupted in the 1800s. It released so much sulphur into atmosphere that the planet cooled by 2 degrees. Which led me to the absurd thought that maybe we could induce a volcano into erupting to cool the planet and negate some of the climate change we’re seeing?
EDIT: forget the word NUKE and just think about if we could trigger a volcano successfully to our benefit? I understand that we wouldn’t want nuclear fallout.
In: Earth Science
Because while volcanoes can cool the planet in the short term, they actually release insane amounts of CO2, so even when you disregard everything bad that would happen from the nuclear explosion and the volcano eruption, it would in the long run have the opposite effect of what you want.
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