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Roadmap details solar geoengineering experiments, sparking governance debate

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A new roadmap from the nonprofit Reflective outlines the necessary experiments and infrastructure to inform decisions on solar geoengineering, a concept involving releasing particles into the atmosphere to dim the sun and counteract climate change. The plan estimates a decade and $370 million for completion if coordinated, or 20 years and $1.4 billion if not. While the roadmap advocates for outdoor experiments, it faces controversy from those who argue that the fundamental questions are not technical but rather about global governance and who would control such a planet-altering technology. AI

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  1. MIT Technology Review TIER_1 English(EN) · James Temple ·

    This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

    A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century ex…

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