Is geoengineering a bad idea?
by Karl Mathiesen from on (#2XG9)
Can technical fixes provide a viable solution to climate change or are they a high-risk, irresponsible distraction from the need to cut carbon emissions?
In 2010, science writer Eli Kintisch called geoengineering "a bad idea whose time has come". It is considered by many to be the ultimate admission of our failure to curb carbon emissions - a tech-fix that excuses continued carbon gluttony in the industrialised world.
A report released on Tuesday by the US National Academies of Sciences (NAS) said tinkering with the global climate now would be "irrational and irresponsible" and climate change can only be avoided by cutting emissions.
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