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Scientists have postponed the billionaire-backed study of the controversial technology called solar geoengineering.

Scientists have postponed the billionaire-backed study of the controversial technology called solar geoengineering. Here's why.

Cooling the Planet? Image of depleted Ozone Layer Around the South Pole, Antarctica. Source: Wikimedia Commons Grandiose plans to cool Earth, saving the planet from overheating by utilizing low-tech balloon flights sprinkling particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar radiation back into outer space have been delayed, nobody knows for sure when, or if, it’ll proceed. The planet-cooling scheme referred to as Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment aka: SCoPEx headed by Harvard professor Fran Keutsch hopes to save humanity from hothouse...

Controversial test flight aimed at cooling the planet cancelled Issued on: 01/04/2021 - 13:34 The project has raised concerns among both scientists and environmentalists - Swedish Space Corporation/AFP/File 2 min Stockholm (AFP) US and European scientists have called off a controversial balloon test flight that was to take place in Sweden's far north in June, part of a disputed solar geoengineering experiment to artificially cool the planet. A team of Harvard scientists had been planning to launch a high-altitude balloon from the Esrange Space Stat...

2021-04-01 15:00:53 GMT2021-04-01 23:00:53(Beijing Time) Sina English US and European scientists have called off a controversial balloon test flight that was to take place in Sweden’s far north in June, part of a disputed solar geoengineering experiment to artificially cool the planet. A team of Harvard University scientists had been planning to launch a high-altitude balloon from the Esrange Space Station in the Swedish town of Kiruna, to test whether it could in future carry equipment to release solar radiation-reflecting particles into the Earth’s atmosphere. The project has bee...