The Biden administration will implement a law passed by Congress to study geoengineering as a way of slowing global heating.
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Frank Biermann, an expert in global governance at Utrecht University, said he is also disturbed that solar geoengineering will create a sort of moral hazard where governments ease off efforts to cut emissions and fossil fuel companies use it as cover to continue business as usual. Planet-heating emissions are expected to hit a record high this year, even though they must be cut in half this decade if the world is to avoid dangerous levels of global heating.
The most frequently suggestion is firing a reflective substance such as sulfur or chalk dust from nozzles into the stratosphere, where the particles would then circulate around the world and start deflecting the sun’s rays.
“Most people didn’t notice that and there have been studies since that give us confidence it can be done,” said Parson. “We don’t know how it should be done, yet, and the environmental aspects and the governance remain concerns. It would be reckless to just start deploying this now but we have lost so many easy paths to limit the harms of climate change that we only face worse options.”around solar geoengineering at the present time.
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