Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences - Futurism
But a pair of new academic reports suggest that it might make sense to hold off on any geoengineering experiments until we actually know what impacts they’ll have on the Earth, Ars Technica reports.Sure, models suggest that injected reflective particles into the atmosphere would help cool the planet, but scientists still seem to have a weak understanding of what ecological impacts the experiments might have below.
The authors of a new report, published Monday in the journal PNAS, don’t necessarily condemn stratospheric aerosol injection.