Blotting out the sun might not fix climate change, but it could pause the warming process. The idea of using planes to “geoengineer” the climate by spreading sunlight-reflecting aerosols throughout ...
We must not let geoengineering be shaped behind closed doors. Climate justice demands an inclusive approach ...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn ...
Last April, the Trump administration effectively canceled funding for the National Climate Assessment Report, firing hundreds of scientists working on it. That assessment is vital to provide ...
Vast sums of private and public money are now chasing a once-fringe idea: deliberately reflecting a slice of sunlight back ...
As you’re reading this, noxious fumes are being pumped out of power plants, the tailpipes of cars, and commercial airplanes. The carbon dioxide they are emitting can remain in the atmosphere for ...
Increasing severe weather events are causing more damage and rising insurance rates, which few deny. Many point to climate change as the culprit, but why is the climate changing? A growing number of ...
Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun - Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from ...
Two University of Massachusetts Amherst professors joined a group of 42 climate scientists worldwide arguing that recent proposals to combat climate change are a “dangerous distraction” riddled with ...
Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.) and leading MAGA mountebank earlier this month urgently demanded that "we must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering." ...
AEI fellow Dr. Roger Pielke offered recommendations for regulation and oversight of "weather modification activity" at a hearing Tuesday titled, “Playing God with the Weather — a Disastrous Forecast." ...