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Here’s National Geographic:

Earth is currently in a long-term warming trend. After [using this technology], though, average global temperatures would drop by 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C) for two to three years afterward, the models suggest.

At the extreme, the tropics, Europe, Asia, and Alaska would cool by 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F (3 to 4 degrees C), according to the models. Parts of the Arctic and Antarctic would actually warm a bit, due to shifted wind and ocean-circulation patterns, the researchers said.

After ten years, average global temperatures would still be 0.9 degree F (0.5 degree C) lower than before [using this technology], the models predict.

We’ve known about this technology since the 1950s:

Project Plowshare has made some systematic studies on the use of [this technology] to modify both weather and climate. In the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Second Plowshare Symposium (UCRL-5679) … L. Machta discusses several suggestions on modifying climate (either increasing or decreasing the average temperature) by injecting suitable numbers and sizes of dust particles into the stratosphere through the use of [this technology].

And it should still work today. Here’s Jeffrey Lewis:

[The use of this technology] has led to a period of global cooling … Global temperatures have fallen by an average 1.25 degrees Celsius in each of the past three years …

We can reduce average global temperatures to long-term means without changing our habits at home, without stalling economic development in India and China, and without unproven technology. 

This technology could be ready tomorrow. In fact, it’s ready right now. If we were serious about global warming, we could change our climate. We could save millions of lives.