It could cool the planet by mimicking volcanoes, but is it worth the risk?
Solar geoengineering research runs into barriers as indigenous opposition sparks a 2022 strategy rethink
17 January 2022 - 18:59
In 1965, US president Lyndon Johnson’s science advisers urged research into reflecting sunlight to keep the Earth cool amid projections of an alarming build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels...
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