Weather should be very controlable by how much sun hits the earth. Which then causes heat, wind, water evaporation etc etc.
Large sun screen satelites (very simple ones that can fold out foil origami style) could block out a lot of sun at places according to stabilization weather models. Same for reflector sattelites, which could add more sun in specific places.
The difficulty is that we cannot send a hundred thousand sattelites out of our gravity well. We would need to setup basic mining and manufacturing on the moon for this plan to work (you can send sattelites into earth orbit at almost zero cost).
The time it would take to setup a factory on the moon should also be used to develop the necessary weather models, which should then be tested out very slowly with the first few thousands of sattelites.
Altering albedo alone still leaves us with ocean acidification problem, but I'm not up-to-date with the risks of that (other than coral reef dying out, which is absolutely tragic).
Weather should be very controlable by how much sun hits the earth. Which then causes heat, wind, water evaporation etc etc.
Large sun screen satelites (very simple ones that can fold out foil origami style) could block out a lot of sun at places according to stabilization weather models. Same for reflector sattelites, which could add more sun in specific places.
The difficulty is that we cannot send a hundred thousand sattelites out of our gravity well. We would need to setup basic mining and manufacturing on the moon for this plan to work (you can send sattelites into earth orbit at almost zero cost). The time it would take to setup a factory on the moon should also be used to develop the necessary weather models, which should then be tested out very slowly with the first few thousands of sattelites.