Read the full story at The Climate Brink.
With growing impacts from climate change and an apparent acceleration of the rate of warming in recent years (albeit in line with what our models project), more prominent voices like Dr. James Hansen have become more open to purposeful cooling of the planet through reducing the amount of energy it receives from the sun.
In this piece I’ll try to take a balanced look at the issue; the potential pros and cons of considering geoengineering as part of our toolkit to reduce the impacts of climate change, as well as the potential unintended consequences it might have both to the climate and to our ability to effectively address climate change. My own position on the issue remains relatively unchanged: its worth doing more research to have it as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option for halting warming, but large-scale deployments today are a bad idea.
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