Harvard team thinks putting sunglasses on the Earth might buy time to solve global warming – CNET

If the Earth is too hot, what if we just block some of the sun hitting it? That’s the basic idea behind a solar geoengineering project at Harvard that is progressing toward an important trial.
“Geoengineering is the concept of intentionally altering the Earth’s climate to suit our needs,” says Colleen Dolja, a PhD candidate and researcher at Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program. That team is working on stratospheric aerosol injection “meaning you would put very tiny, reflective particles…

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