You may have heard about this crazy scheme, or one like it:
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/uk-greenlight-experiments-dim-sun-bid-stop-global-warming
Increasing the planet's albedo (the fraction of reflected sunlight) this way might cool the planet, but it also will decrease the output of all those solar cells we've been installing.
And by the way, the more solar arrays we have the lower the planet's albedo will be.
Someone needs to calculate how much these effects cancel out each other before we do any more nutty experiments.
Someone also needs to calculate whether increasing the number of solar arrays will increase or decrease the Earth's temperature relative to the change expected from the elimination of the fossil fuel burning they replace. If that calc goes the wrong way, the whole "green energy" movement is BS. We'd still heat up AND we'd have less plant and animal food to eat.
I'd do the calcs myself, but my math skills have been degrading for the past 30 years.
Update - 05/03/2025
If what Musk claims is correct, we need to do my suggested calculations NOW, not after we destroy all other forms of energy generation:
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