A dangerous distraction: Increasing climate risk with solar geoengineering

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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/559329-a-dangerous-distraction-increasing-climate-risk-with-solar

BY JOEL CLEMENT, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —06/20/21 05:00 PM EDT535THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILLShare to FacebookShare to Twitter

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A dangerous distraction: Increasing climate risk with solar geoengineering

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As society struggles to step up to the challenges posed by the climate change freight train and its impacts on health, safety, the economy and the environment, every possible solution is on the table. While we already have the technology to transition away from burning fossil fuels, the cause of rapid climate change, some scientists and wealthy donors doubt that we will do so. For that reason, we are seeing more frequentinvestmentsin efforts to mask the effects of global warming until the problem can be solved. First among these is what is known as solar geoengineering.

Solar geoengineering is a misnomer used to describe efforts to reduce the amount of solar…

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