Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious
Enter Stardust Solutions. The company has been working under the radar for a few years, but it has started talking about its work more publicly this year. In October, it announced a…
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The Download: the solar geoengineering race, and future gazing with the The Simpsons
—David Keith is the professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and Daniele Visioni is an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University…
Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust
Many people already distrust the idea of engineering the atmosphere—at whichever scale—to address climate change, fearing negative side effects, inequitable impacts on different parts of…
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
What we cannot do The versions of weather modification that the conspiracy theorists envision most often—significantly altering monsoons or hurricanes or making the skies clear and sunny…