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Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland investigated the question of whether the melting of ice in West Antarctica could be prevented by artificially influencing solar radiation.
Geoengineering has emerged to cool the climate. But artificially "dimming the sun" does not work without decarbonisation and entails high risks
The climate might theoretically be artificially impacted and cooled using so-called geoengineering methods. Bernese scientists have now researched whether it is possible to avoid the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet by “dimming the sun” artificially.
Researchers have now investigated whether it would be possible to prevent the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet by artificially "dimming the sun".
It is still possible to limit average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius (2˚C) and avoid catastrophic climate change, but the remaining global carbon budget—the amount of carbon that can be safely released into the atmosphere if this limit is to be met—is rapidly diminishing.This was the verdict of the world’s top scientists who gathered in Paris last week to urge