Various geoengineering schemes show promise of reducing the impact of global climate change, but carry risks and limitations as well, according to a first-ever comprehensive assessment by researchers at the University of East Anglia.
Among the researchers’ findings:
“The realisation that existing efforts to mitigate the effects of human-induced climate change are proving wholly ineffectual has fuelled a resurgence of interest in geoengineering,” said Tim Lenton, the study’s lead author. “We found that some geoengineering options could usefully complement mitigation, and together they could cool the climate, but geoengineering alone cannot solve the climate problem.”
Hmmm, and considering we’re not doing well at either just yet — mitigation or geoengineering — what’s that say for the state of the climate in years to come? Not much good, it seems.