With the world set to blow previous 1.5°C of warming, researchers are more and more learning attainable strategies of cooling the planet by modifying the environment or the oceans. Extra geoengineering analysis is deliberate in 2025, reminiscent of initiatives aiming to make clouds replicate extra daylight and efforts to take away carbon dioxide from the environment by tweaking ocean chemistry.
Such exams have lengthy been controversial. Opponents of analysis on geoengineering – itself a loaded time period – see it as a hubristic distraction from urgent efforts to slash greenhouse…