The European Union will join an international effort to assess whether large-scale interventions such as deflecting the sun’s rays or changing the Earth’s weather patterns are viable options for fighting climate change.
- Part of the assessment includes studying the potential dangers of re-engineering the atmosphere.
Good Science? Or Science Fiction? This research pushes the EU into the debate over whether so-called climate geoengineering is just a distraction with potentially dangerous implications for the planet and its atmosphere.