WHO believes that clouds may counteract climate change?
The use of planetary-scale engineering to counteract climate change is known as "geo-engineering .The idea has been around for years.
However, its ability to counteract climate change is imperfect and cannot offset all its impacts.
He also talks of the need to break the nation's dependence on oil and counteract climate change.
Geoengineering refers to the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the Earth's environment to counteract climate change.
Which adaptation measures to counteract climate induced risks and uncertainty are to be taken is, however, a matter of individual risk attitude.
Three projects funded by the British government since 2010 to study the deliberate tinkering with the planet to counteract climate change, known as geoengineering, are soon to end.
Taking adaptation measures to counteract climate induced uncertainty on e.g. drought risk or changes in productivity is a matter of individual risk attitude as the three climate runs span a decision space with possible developments.
At the same time, the resulting consumption of CO2 within such a new production scheme also provides a fundamental argument to support processes that counteract climate change [13, 34].
