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Geoengineering

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Climate Change

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dead Wrong About Outlawing Climate Geoengineering

An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.

Ronald Bailey | 7.23.2025 6:00 PM

Marine geoengineering experiment on an aircraft carrier | University of Washington

Geoengineering

Marine Cloud Brightening Geoengineering Experiment Halted

Why do environmentalist ideologues oppose research on a possible emergency backup system to cool the climate?

Ronald Bailey | 5.15.2024 11:00 AM

high altitude balloon | Keith et al. JGR Atmospheres 2021

Geoengineering

Harvard Global Cooling Geoengineering Experiment Halted

Activists oppose research on how to safely deploy an emergency cooling system for the planet.

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2024 1:05 PM

example graph demonstrating seeding the stratosphere with particles to reflect a portion of sunlight away from the earth and thus cooling the planet a bit | National Academy of Sciences

Climate Change

Prominent Climate Change Activist Researchers Finally Call for Solar Geoengineering Research

Reason first argued for researching such a planetary emergency cooling system 26 years ago.

Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2023 4:35 PM

featuerBailey | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source image: Nikelser/iStock

Geoengineering

The Fight To Stop Research Into a Cheap, Effective Backup Plan for Climate Change

Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change?

Ronald Bailey | 9.25.2022 6:22 AM

sipaphotosthree759437 | Pascal Saez/Sipa USA/Newscom

Climate Change

Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock Is a Glorious Sci-Fi Vision of How To Respond to Global Warming, One Geoengineering Problem at a Time

In Stephenson's near-future novel, innovation, not legislation, is the best response to a changing climate.

Peter Suderman | 11.16.2021 8:00 AM

8114225_16x9 | Illustration: Lex Villena; ID 67386757 © Andrey Polichenko | Dreamstime.com, ID 157940190 © Martin Holverda | Dreamstime.com, ID 174581162 © Insidestudio | Dreamstime.com

Climate Change

12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence

The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.

Aaron Brown | 4.30.2021 1:38 PM

Large image on homepages | Harvard/SEAS

Geoengineering

New Research Suggests Solar Geoengineering Could Safely Lower Global Temperatures

We should stop hemming and hawing and try building an emergency backup cooling system for the planet

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2019 4:45 PM

Large image on homepages | Joanna Andreasson

Science

We Broke the Climate and We Can Fix It

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2018 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages

Geoengineering

Climate Intervention Finally Discussed in Latest National Global Change Research Plan Update

Way past time to experiment with geoengineering as an emergency backup plan to cool the planet

Ronald Bailey | 1.10.2017 12:30 PM

Large image on homepages

National Academy of Sciences

Climate Geoengineering Research Should Go Forward, Says National Academy of Sciences Reports Today

Both albedo management and carbon dioxide removal should be researched

Ronald Bailey | 2.10.2015 12:34 PM

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