Trump presidency 'opens door' to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments
by Martin Lukacs from Environment | The Guardian on (#2H694)
As geoengineer advocates enter Trump administration, plans advance to spray sun-reflecting chemicals into atmosphere
Harvard engineers who launched the world's biggest solar geoengineering research program may get a dangerous boost from Donald Trump, environmental organizations are warning.
Under the Trump administration, enthusiasm appears to be growing for the controversial technology of solar geo-engineering, which aims to spray sulphate particles into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's radiation back to space and decrease the temperature of Earth.
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