• Can we cool Earth by blocking the sun’s rays? And should we?

  • Nov 20 2024
  • Length: 27 mins
  • Podcast

Can we cool Earth by blocking the sun’s rays? And should we?

  • Summary

  • Come with us to California where entrepreneurs are sending balloons full of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. It’s a form of solar geoengineering known as stratospheric aerosol injection, and the company Make Sunsets isn’t waiting for scientific consensus before they launch. We hear about their business model, and then from the researchers who question both the science and ethics of the practice.

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