"Increasingly, it seems that averting climate disaster will require not just reducing carbon emissions but also finding ways to remove from the atmosphere carbon dioxide that humanity has already placed there. But how, practically speaking, can we remove vast amounts of carbon from something as large and unwieldy as Earth’s atmosphere?"

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"Last week, world leaders convened in Bonn, Germany to talk about reducing global carbon emissions to fight climate change. Meanwhile, the U.S. House Science Committee held a hearing about a rather controversial method to combating rising temperatures. It’s called geoengineering and it involves manipulating the atmosphere to cool down the earth."

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Media responses to

Jones, Anthony C.; Haywood, James M.; Dunstone, Nick; Emanuel, Kerry; Hawcroft, Matthew K.; Hodges, Kevin I.; Jones, Andy (2017): Impacts of hemispheric solar geoengineering on tropical cyclone frequency. In Nat Comms 8 (1), p. 1382. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01606-0.

"Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown."

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