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Could Comets or Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming?

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Could Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming?

The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a large asteroid or comet at the Earth as a way to combat global warming.

Could such an impact permanently (or simisemi-permanently) reverse global warming without causing so much secondary environmental damage that it would make the outcome worse than letting global warming take its course.?

Could Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming

The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a large asteroid or comet at the Earth as a way to combat global warming.

Could such an impact permanently (or simi-permanently) reverse global warming without causing so much secondary environmental damage that it would make the outcome worse than letting global warming take its course.

Could Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming?

The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a large asteroid or comet at the Earth as a way to combat global warming.

Could such an impact permanently (or semi-permanently) reverse global warming without causing so much secondary environmental damage that it would make the outcome worse than letting global warming take its course?

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Could Meteors be used to Combat Global Warming

The running theory is that if the Earth is hit by a sufficiently large meteor, that the impact would create an ice age from all the dust it would put into the atmosphere. While this has been historically seen as a bad thing, this has me wondering if people might one day want to intentionally steer a large asteroid or comet at the Earth as a way to combat global warming.

Could such an impact permanently (or simi-permanently) reverse global warming without causing so much secondary environmental damage that it would make the outcome worse than letting global warming take its course.