Geoengineering to cool earth: Space dust as Earth’s sun shield
On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more and more greenhouse gases, the Earth'satmosphere traps more and more of…
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Mexico bans solar geoengineering experiments after startup’s field tests
Mexico says it will prohibit experiments with solar geoengineering, a strategy that purports to reverse global warming by reflecting sunlight but is still…
The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate
And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the vegetation. “One of the major risks of some of these…
Think Climate Change Is Messy? Wait Until Geoengineering
WIRED: Would we notice this? Visually, would we see anything? KR: Yes, on an absolute scale. It changes the ratio of direct and diffuse radiation. So the…
RE:WIRED 2021: Neal Stephenson on Building and Fixing Worlds
Neal Stephenson has no trouble getting the science right in his speculative sci-fi best-sellers, which dwell on how people might respond to new technologies…
Solar geoengineering may be effective in alleviating impacts of global warming on crops: Research…
Solar geoengineering -- putting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming -- is not a fix-all for climate change but it…