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Unilateral Deployment: Could a Single Country Change the Global Climate?
Given how inexpensive and powerful some sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), appear...
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The Technical Feasibility and Costs of SAI
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), an idea to add millions of tonnes of reflective particles to the upper atmosphere, see...
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Would Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Add to Acid Rain?
The sulphate particles that could be used for stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) would add to acid rain. With sulphate pol...
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Will Scientists Know if SRM Caused Extreme Weather?
If sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modification (SRM), were deployed to lower temperatures, and ev...
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Mitigation Displacement: Could SRM Undermine Emissions Cuts?
A common objection to the study and potential development of sunlight reflection methods, also known as solar radiation modif...
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Will Climate Change Become Unbearable When the World Reaches 1.5°C or 2°C?
In 2015, almost all countries agreed to try to limit warming to 1.5°C to 2°C above the pre-industrial average. However, the...
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What Is SRM?
Sunlight reflection methods or solar radiation modification (SRM) describes a set of ideas to counteract global warming by re...
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Marine Cloud Brightening
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is an idea to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds over the oceans. Spraying tiny sea-...
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Could SAI Delay the Recovery of the Ozone Layer?
The ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays is slowly recovering from the damage done to it by huma...
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Does International Law Prohibit SRM?
Because they would alter the climate and could cause harm, some people wonder whether sunlight reflection methods or solar ra...
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Surface Albedo Modification
Surface albedo modification describes a set of ideas to produce a cooling effect by increasing the amount of light reflected ...
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Cirrus Cloud Thinning
Cirrus cloud thinning (CCT) would cool the Earth by thinning heat-trapping cirrus clouds. Currently, scientists are not certa...
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