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We Should Know Who's Paying for Geoengineering Experiments
Funding is growing as rapidly as the public discourse around its research and development, but it’s not a climate-change solution.
High expectations.
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Not long ago, the idea of dimming the sun would be considered either outlandish or taboo.
A new analysis reveals that neither of those things is entirely true anymore, as the funding going into the field of solar geoengineering — techniques that aim to soothe the symptoms of climate change by reflecting more of the sun’s heat back into space — is increasing as rapidly as the public discourse around its research and development.