@Bryan @davidaugust @lkanies I literally had someone question whether Biden's new air pollution rules (which tighten particulate emissions) were really good "in the long run" because they thought that pollution would help counter global warming.

I don't know how we arrived at 2024 with this much confusion about pollution impacts... oh wait, yes I do. The relentless fossil fuel propaganda.

@Mabande I did my PhD research on the formation of sulfate aerosols at altitude from aircraft engine exhaust and I'm here to definitively say there is NO good impact from that, long or short term (despite whatever cooling effect might result) — but boy do the geoengineering enthusiasts love that idea. #TechWontSaveUs

@davidaugust @lkanies

@davidaugust :) It was the long-ago days when I did internships for NASA and studied rocket engines. Then I figured out how much harm combustion products were doing to the biosphere and I switched to studying global warming. Then I became an author. Fast forward: now I'm writing hopeful climate fiction. Cuz we need stories like that, badly. We're not doomed, but we're in deep trouble. @Mabande @lkanies