Regional deployment of marine cloud brightening off the U.S. West Coast would be far less effective in the warmer world of 2050, and if implemented, could unleash higher temperatures in Europe and other regions, warns recent research. The June 2024 modeling study of the controversial geoengineering technique shows “that a regional intervention will have large […]

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This kind of trade-off with major associated governance problems is typical of geoengineering.