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Cloud-forming isoprene & terpenes from crops may drastically improve climate

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-are-just-beginning-to-understand-how-life-makes-clouds-and-their-discoveries-may-drastically-improve-climate-science-180986872/
11•gsf_emergency_2•4h ago

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ricardobayes•46m ago
I think I saw this movie
bananapub•44m ago
It really does seem like it’s going to be impossible to stop rich lunatics from having a go at geoengineering instead of just actually helping to slash emissions.

Pretty embarrassing overall for the species.

ch4s3•43m ago
> just actually helping to slash emissions

The word just here hides a lot of complexity and difficult tradeoffs.

mslansn•34m ago
Don't know what rich assholes have to do with it, when all things I've seen proposed hurt poor people the most. Make meat unaffordable, make private transportation unaffordable, make travelling by plane unaffordable, make new clothes unaffordable, and the list goes on forever.
tonyedgecombe•23m ago
Do you think carbon emissions are coming from poor people’s consumption?

Even in the US only half the population will fly in any year and you can be sure it’s not the poorer half.

It’s not the rich half using public transport, they are only going to benefit from a transition away from private car ownership.

MildlySerious•18m ago
That's exactly what rich assholes have to do with it. Why do you believe all the consequence falls onto the working class and the poorest, when the richest have per capita the largest emissions, by whole orders of magnitude?

Yeah, the changes required are systemic and go from the top all the way to the bottom, and the things you mention are part of that process, but pricing people out of everything without offering an off-ramp is sadistic bullshit, and the only reason it's a thing is because rich people and stock prices have more representation in politics than the poor and the environment.

zahlman•31m ago
What do you suppose is the net worth of the people spearheading efforts in solar power and electric vehicles?
zemvpferreira•22m ago
Cut carbon emissions to zero tomorrow and we’re still in a great deal of trouble. Earth is a lagging system and the damage has been done 10 times over.

I don’t blame anyone for looking at radical solutions. We’re not putting out the fire by putting the wood back in a pile.

dylan604•26m ago
I guess FloridaMan won't be doing this as they've recently passed legislation to ban this type of stuff. I think this is one of those cases where it was done for the wrong reasons, but it kind of works out in the end

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/23/c...

ElevenLathe•16m ago
Rain follows the plow?
fred_is_fred•15m ago
This is exactly backwards from what I would think: "Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, whereas wispier ones up to 20,000 feet tend to trap heat.". I would have guessed high ones reflect it before it gets lower into the atmosphere.
jvanderbot•10m ago
You might be surprised to learn how much global warming impact from jet aircraft is actually from creating "high-up wispy clouds" in the form of contrails (which are just water vapor).

The Simple Math Problem We Still Can't Solve

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematicians-still-cant-solve-the-collatz-conjecture-20200922/
1•chirau•2m ago•0 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

https://kevinboone.me/dtc-700.html
1•naves•3m ago•0 comments

User-friendly and privacy-friendly LLM experience?

https://tildes.net/~comp/1orz/user_friendly_and_privacy_friendly_llm_experience
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Stock Android tablet free of bloatware?

1•miki_tyler•4m ago•0 comments

Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625
1•henning•4m ago•0 comments

Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money

https://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-care-about-this-war-over-the-future-of-money-2000622009
1•rntn•6m ago•0 comments

Lua 5.5.0 (Beta) Released

https://www.lua.org/work/#5.5.0
1•dottrap•7m ago•1 comments

Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices

https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit
1•moose44•8m ago•0 comments

Writing Code to Be Read at a Glance

https://jelv.is/blog/Writing-Code-To-Be-Read-at-a-Glance/
1•lawn•8m ago•0 comments

Fake AI-made videos about Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/29/fake-diddy-ai-videos-youtube
1•sandebert•8m ago•0 comments

Operation Gold Rush, largest health care fraud bust in U.S. history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/30/health-care-fraud-bust-largest-in-us-history/
2•brandonb•8m ago•0 comments

Satellites are fueling a space-based internet gold rush

https://restofworld.org/2025/satellites-space-based-internet/
1•tysone•9m ago•0 comments

Hit songs are getting shorter

https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/06/02/hit-songs-are-getting-shorter
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal with Bukele Threatens That Effort

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/trump-bukele-ms-13-immigrants.html
3•JumpCrisscross•9m ago•0 comments

iOverlander's Pivot Shows the Cost of Community-Driven Tech

https://www.hereandthere.club/post/ioverlanders-pivot-shows-the-cost-of-community-driven-tech
1•dzogchen•11m ago•0 comments

Fil-C

https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge
1•mpweiher•11m ago•0 comments

A vision researcher's guide to some RL stuff: PPO and GRPO

https://yugeten.github.io/posts/2025/01/ppogrpo/
1•fzliu•14m ago•0 comments

Insider Trading on SEC Filings

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-06-30/insider-trading-on-sec-filings
2•ioblomov•14m ago•0 comments

High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++

https://www.csa.gov.sg/alerts-and-advisories/alerts/al-2025-063
1•onlinenotepad•17m ago•0 comments

Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws

https://dirtamericana.com/2025/04/therapy-dogs-business-interior-violations/
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FastPitchDeck – AI to generate VC-ready pitch decks

https://fastpitchdeckai.vercel.app/
1•ramyavarahagiri•21m ago•0 comments

Writing a Little Gosh

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/writing-a-gosh
1•dpassens•24m ago•0 comments

Martech Engineer

1•smwbauer•24m ago•1 comments

Can we ever understand our dogs?

https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/418008/dog-pets-perception-science-research-animal-smell
2•lr0•25m ago•0 comments

GenAI – Will Workers Disappear?

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/ai-labor-workers-economy
1•MPLan•26m ago•1 comments

Iran's Internet Blackout Accidentally Revealed Coordinated Narrative in the West

4•Memetic-tracer•27m ago•2 comments

Resources for Disaster Preparedness in Heritage (2024)

https://conserv.io/blog/7-resources-for-disaster-preparedness-in-heritage/
1•mooreds•27m ago•0 comments

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/senator-chides-fbi-for-weak-advice-on-mobile-security/
3•todsacerdoti•27m ago•0 comments

20 years on, Max Payne is as stylish as ever (2021)

https://www.eurogamer.net/20-years-on-max-payne-is-as-stylish-as-ever
3•Michelangelo11•28m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is "ethical AI" possible, or is there a catch?

1•mrdependable•32m ago•2 comments