It would be cheaper to change the world's climate than you think. One scientist thinks that some countries might engineer the planet in response to climate change.
According to Kate Ricke, a climate scientist and researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, countries will inevitably choose to do it since it is so affordable. The consequences of doing so might be complicated.
Ricke told the magazine that he has a hard time seeing how it doesn't happen. It is really urgent to do more research.
Unintended consequences.
All a nation has to do is inject aerosols into the sky. In theory, the aerosols would bounce back the Sun's radiation, cooling the planet.
It can be seen when global temperatures fall following a volcanic eruption. The full impact could be disastrous.
In certain parts of the world, worsening weather conditions could be a result ofgeoengineering. If we are unable to spray sulfates into the atmosphere, we could see mass extinction events and crops die out.
Research is needed.
Ricke wants the scientific community to devote more research if it is going to be inevitable.
Ricke told the magazine that science that is seen as legitimate by everyone is needed in order to have collective decision-making at the global scale.
It seems like a band-aid solution to the bigger problem of climate change, one that could allow us to avoid doing the hard work of decreasing carbon emissions at the root level.
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