Mars and Earth Switch Places - Effect on climate?

[Simon_Jester]

They'd help, indeed they're routinely proposed as a part of how to terraform Mars in the first place, but given the shitty condition of our space launch infrastructure I doubt we could implement the solution in time.

[Guardsman Bass]

That's my problem with them as well. It would be easier just to let things rip with methane and CO2 production (plus CFC and HFC production) than to build the space infrastructure you'd need to build in the short term to get those mirrors up there. They'd have to come later.

[Kitsune]

One of the ideas I think is to turn ice asteroids / comets on mars

[Slacker]

Woah slowdown for a second. I don't think that terraforming calculator accounts for internal geological heat produced by Earth itself. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's still catastrophic for human civilization, but a not-inconsiderate amount of the heat on the surface here is produced internally, because unlike Mars, Earth's core is both liquid and fairly active. I mean, still tundra in New York bad, but not death-of-all-multi-cellular-life bad.

Or I could be wrong.