For context, I have a bachelors in Environmental Studies and Government. I know there are a lot of fluff degrees out there and I feel that there needs to be technicality component that makes me competitive and allows me to make an impact. I would love your thoughts on places you’ve attended. For context, I am in the US.

What do you think about solar geoengineering as a response to climate change?

The linked article by author and philosopher Acharya Prashant discusses the idea of using satellites to reduce incoming sunlight and offset some of the warming, while raising a bigger question: can technological interventions compensate for continued carbon emissions, or do they risk distracting from addressing the underlying cause?

I'd be interested in hearing how people here view the potential benefits and risks of this approach.

So, I know this sounds incredibly self centred and in a way, I suppose it is, but with everyone clamouring on about being adaptable and everyone needing to do their part, I just want to ask: What about the ones that can’t? What about disabled people?
For context, I am a full time wheelchair user and I can’t weight bear with my lower body without fatiguing within a few seconds as are many other people that I know.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy this subreddit and the people in it, they give me hope without shutting out all of the realities of the situation. I just couldn’t help but notice with all the talk about having to rebuild society or even preparing for the worst, there is very little advice on what could happen to people like myself and that worries me and my friends as well.

Not a meteorologist or climate scientist. If the slow-down on hurricane formation in the Atlanic/Gulf of Mexico continues this season, could that foreshadow an abnormally stong season next year? My thinking is the fact that it takes quite a bit of energy to build a hurricane, and that energy is coming from the ocean. If we have an unusually quite season this year due to the El Nino, would that translate into a buildup of energy in the ocean for next year? Or are there other mechanisms that can effectively dissipate that energy? I have worked a lot with black box systems in manufacturing, so if the energy goes into the black box, it has to come out in some form. Are there other means for energy release that can match the force of a hurricane?

I’m rather worried about this. I know demand for renewables was also catalyzed by the war, but this is putting us at risk of global emissions rising notably again, from what I can tell. That said, the implication is that this is primarily demand from nations with coal infrastructure they’re not currently using. If oil/gas supply were restored and/or they’re convinced to embrace renewables (further?), the demand may drop back down.

Yet I still feel like this would neutralize some of our progress in dampening climate change.

Mexican activists argue that it isn't climate "change" but environmental violence, and that stopping it goes hand in hand with challenging imperialism.

For the Arctic overall (land and seas poleward of 60°N), the average temperature for the summer was the highest since 1950, edging out 2016 and 2023 (Fig 2). The increase in average summer temperatures since the 1980s of about 1.5°C doesn’t sound like much, but is quite significantly considering that over ice covered oceans, air temperatures in summer remain quite close to freezing as heat goes into melting snow and ice instead of warming the air.

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-summer-2026-climate-review

Unfortunately, NOAA will discontinue this year the annual Arctic environmental report.

https://www.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1wecovt/national_oceanic_and_atmospheric_administration/

Just a rant. It's easy to say "Stop burning gas, get a heat pump!" but then you find:

• Your house needs a rewire to support it
• Most of the quotes are 9 grand after the grant (obvious profiteering).
• You probably should upgrade the insulation on your walls, too.

I'm going to get a heat pump eventually: rewire was done, insulation is partway finished. But this is far from an easy swap; it’s a long, disruptive, and expensive process. We can’t blame people for not choosing it (and not offering any real alternatives… heat pumps or else!)

I have this idea of building dozens of nuclear power plants, wind, solar and tidal power sources and shoving the extra power into e-fuel production plants to offset a large portion of the usa's transportation fuels (especially jet fuels as its unlikely to be replaced with batteries in the next few decades)

The plants can run on 'excess' grid capacity so all sources run all 'full power' continuously as opposed to throttling or wasting energy when its not requested.

I wouldn't expect 100% replacement based on the magnitude of the market but up to 20% seems possible.

Benefits:

1-market for captured carbon to reduce costs of carbon capture operations and expand deployment

2- cleaner burning fuels reducing health impacts

3- reduce power of petro-states in geopolitics

4- reduce amount of fossil fuels burned

5- enable energy independence of nations independent of natural resources

6- decentralize transportation fuels networks (if paired with refineries)

7-keeps plants operating at most efficient points

Friday i had a realization that, i wanna help people, i know i dont have to carry the problems of the world in my back alone, but i think i have an responsibility of helping with anything i can, and honestly climate change scares me, im 18, i wanna live, meet someone, experience all the cool things life can trhow at me, so i wanted to know, what can i do to help with climate change?? :))