| ▲ | hdgvhicv a day ago | |||||||
If you increase it 1000 fold it would still be less than 10% of the heat the sun provides. | ||||||||
| ▲ | rgmerk a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
That's incorrect. It's in the order of 25% of the heat reaching the Earth's surface, or maybe 35-40 watts of heat per square metre. That's roughly ten times the warming effect of doubling CO2. Now, I don't have a climate model handy to simulate this in detail but I would suggest "render the Earth uninhabitable" is a close enough approximation to the actual effects to suggest it's a terrible idea and anyone seriously proposing it should be laughed out of the room until they've done their homework. | ||||||||
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