The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James W. Hurrell, Professor and Scott Presidential ...

Scientists have proposed a set of guidelines to assess the feasibility of solar geoengineering scenarios (Oxford Open Clim. Change 2024, DOI: 10.1093/oxfclm/kgae010). With the guidelines, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — You can see them in the sky, the airplanes carrying customers or cargo. But maybe these planes are doing something else: spraying chemicals to bounce the heat of the sun back into the ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from investors and concerns from some scientists, Josh Marcus reports ...

Professor in Global Governance and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, and Co-Director, Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Chukwumerije ...

In order to stay below 1.5°C of warming and thus mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that countries will need to collectively invest $35 ...

Last week, the New York Times reported on a nascent U.S. government effort to build a detection system for solar geoengineering. Also known as solar radiation modification (SRM) or stratospheric ...

Once a fringe idea, solar geoengineering — specifically, using aerosols or other physical obstacles to block out some of the sun’s light — has gained traction among some climate startups and ...

Over the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, the world’s temperatures hovered near 1.5° C above pre-industrial temperatures, and the catastrophic weather events that ensued provided a preview of what might ...

"Research on various solar geoengineering methods has been going on for a few decades now, but there hasn't been a formal assessment collating all the information in one place suitable for policy ...