With glacial melt accelerating, a geoengineering movement gathers momentum
More scientists are seriously proposing geoengineering as our best bet to slow the contributions of glaciers to sea-level rise.
Resorting to geoengineering, taking steps to purposely alter the Earth’s climate, to address the effects of a changing climate, is an old idea, dating as far back as the 1980s, when James Early, of The United States’ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, suggested placing what amounted to a translucent cosmic parasol between the Earth and the sun.
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