Economic interests and ideologies behind solar geoengineering research in the United States
Solar geoengineering research – also discussed as solar radiation management or stratospheric aerosol injection – is often thought of as a futuristic climate emergency measure, or as a tool of the fossil fuel industry to push back energy transitions as much as possible. In this post, we show that solar geoengineering is mostly now supported by […]
Why the new “Letter of Support for Solar Geoengineering Research” is misguided
The normalization of solar geoengineering as part of climate policy is progressing, with growing numbers of journal articles by geoengineering research advocates, editorial pushing by some science journals, and supportive actions by a few science networks in the United States. However, the opposition to solar geoengineering in global academia is growing as well, and more […]
When Do We Know Enough to Say Stop?
There is a large and growing mountain of literature about solar geoengineering that clearly expresses the conclusion that an advertent, planetary-scale manipulation of the Earth’s reflectivity is a very risky and uncertain endeavor. Here on this website you can read about many of the risks and potential adverse side effects, which are legion. You can […]
Statement from Vanuatu: Why a Non-Use Mechanism on Solar Geoengineering is urgently needed
Statement by Honorable Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment, delivered at Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly, 23 September 2024.
The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer
Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, and Professor Michael E. Mann, Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, critique the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) funding for solar geoengineering field trials in a recent opinion piece. They describe the […]