Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.
Yeah, the idea is to say “we could lower the temperature by tossing maybe-toxic particles in the air” as a means of creating social permission to continue extracting and burning fossil fuels. It’s kind of a mess though, because it might be the least-bad option if we fail to pull off a phase-out of fossil fuels.
Yeah, the idea is to say “we could lower the temperature by tossing maybe-toxic particles in the air” as a means of creating social permission to continue extracting and burning fossil fuels. It’s kind of a mess though, because it might be the least-bad option if we fail to pull off a phase-out of fossil fuels.