Two reports this week by the US National Research Council look at whether humans could artificially steer Earth's climate by reflecting sunlight back into space, or by taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The twin reports– Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration and Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool the Earth argue that carbon dioxide removal might have a place in a broader response plan, but sunlight-reflecting technologies are too risky.
The reports, which concluded that cutting emissions remains by far the best option, garnered wide and varied coverage in The Guardian,The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Climate Progress, Scientific American, Dot Earth blog and Nature.
Citations
Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Ocean Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council, Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration , ISBN 978-0-309-30529-7
Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Ocean Studies Board; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth, ISBN 978-0-309-31482-4
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