Opinion: We can't engineer ourselves out of the climate crisis
Faced with runaway climate change, governments are starting to consider tampering with the atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong?
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Faced with runaway climate change, governments are starting to consider tampering with the atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong?
Artificially changing the atmosphere is cool in theory, but it has real-life implications even when it's used to fight the climate crisis.
The European Union is calling for international talks on a potential worldwide framework on how to treat and regulate deliberately atmosphere-altering tech, aka geoengineering.
The European Commission is pushing for more research into risks posed by geoengineering and international talks on potential rules for how to deploy the controversial technologies aimed at tackling climate change.
Even if we lower our emissions, legacy atmospheric CO2 will still heat the planet. Geoengineering is inexpensive and could solve the problem.