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A Big-Sky Plan to Cool the Planet
Seriously addressing climate change means cutting carbon emissions and, ultimately, reducing the carbon already in the atmosphere. There's no way around it. Another type of intervention, however, is increasingly garnering attention: solar geoengineering, that is, cooling the planet by making it reflect back more of the sun’s rays. It's not a permanent solution to climate change, and it carries worrisome environmental and political risks of its own, but it’s an idea worth exploring....
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Wagner, Gernot and Martin L. Weitzman.“ A Big-Sky Plan to Cool the Planet.” The Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2018.
The Authors
Gernot Wagner
- Former Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, September 2017–August 2019
Martin L. Weitzman
Seriously addressing climate change means cutting carbon emissions and, ultimately, reducing the carbon already in the atmosphere. There's no way around it. Another type of intervention, however, is increasingly garnering attention: solar geoengineering, that is, cooling the planet by making it reflect back more of the sun’s rays. It's not a permanent solution to climate change, and it carries worrisome environmental and political risks of its own, but it’s an idea worth exploring....
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The full text of this publication is available via the original publication source.
For more information on this publication:
Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation:
Wagner, Gernot and Martin L. Weitzman.“ A Big-Sky Plan to Cool the Planet.” The Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2018.
The Authors
Gernot Wagner
- Former Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, September 2017–August 2019