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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.
Representational image. Molten lava erupts from the Piton de la Fournaise, Réunion island, in 2015. Campi Flegrei in Italy has not erupted since the 1500s.
Piton de la Fournaise volcano

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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