60-second climate fix: can the sun cool down the Earth?
In the meantime, economies have continued to spew out carbon pollution, making a climate fix far more difficult.
This isn't about ownership of the idea, but it's an idea we need to listen to if we want to get the climate fixed".
Each year that passes, millions of young Americans come of age having spent their entire lives, literally, with these powers and this climate fixed in place: to them, there is nothing radical or aberrational about any of it.
But 1percentt of that money could be put toward working out geoengineered climate fixes like sulfate particles in the atmosphere, and developing the understanding we need to ensure that they wouldn't just make matters worse.
Other researchers say the chances of success are so low, unless something breaks the societal impasse, that any technology quest should also include work on increasing the resilience to climate extremes — through actions like developing more drought-tolerant crops — as well as last-ditch climate fixes, like testing ways to block some incoming sunlight to counter warming.
In fact, reducing black carbon is one of a number of relatively quick and simple climate fixes using existing technologies -- often called "low hanging fruit" -- that scientists say should be plucked immediately to avert the worst projected consequences of global warming.
In fact, reducing black carbon is one of a number of relatively quick and simple climate fixes using existing technologies — often called "low hanging fruit" — that scientists say should be plucked immediately to avert the worst projected consequences of global warming.
The economic troubles generated by the Great Recession dimmed congressional interest in pursuing potentially disruptive climate fixes, believes Inglis, who is a proponent of market-based climate policies.
The field of implementing technical climate fixes, or geo-engineering, is full of controversy, and even those involved in researching the issue see it as a last-ditch option, a lot less desirable than constraining greenhouse gas emissions.
