Artificially Cooling Earth With Volcanoes Is Dangerous
Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere would be disastrous for parts of Africa, scientists say.
by Hannah Osborne
Dec 15, 2017
2 minutes
A controversial plan to cool down the planet by artificially simulating volcanic eruptions could have disastrous consequences for Earth—yet there are no laws or regulations to stop any country or private company from deploying such technology.
Solar geoengineering is one of the proposed ways to artificially reduce global temperatures. It is often seen as one of the most extreme
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