PARIS, Jan 17 — Planetary-scale engineering schemes designed to cool Earth’s surface and lessen the impact of global heating are potentially dangerous and should be blocked by governments, more than 60 policy experts and scientists said today.
An increase of 1.1 degrees Celsius above mid-19th century levels has already boosted the intensity, frequency and duration of deadly heat waves, droughts and megastorms. It has long been known that injecting a large quantity of reflective particles into the upper atmosphere could cool the planet. Scientists also worry about so-called termination shock if seeding the atmosphere with Sun-blocking particles were to suddenly stop.
The open letter also cautions that raising hopes about a quick fix for climate “can disincentivise governments, businesses and societies to do their upmost to achieve decarbonisation or carbon neutrality as soon as possible”.
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