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Letter: Climate shock or signal for geoengineering? (2)

Published 1 October 2025

From Don Sandom, Reading, Berkshire, UK

Previously, proponents of geoengineering solutions to global warming have suggested that reflective aerosol particles could be sprayed into the upper atmosphere to achieve the same sunlight-reflecting effect as aerosol pollution. Opponents argue that this idea seems risky. I would have thought that what has been observed in the Pacific and Indian oceans as a result of pollution shows, to the contrary, how effective upper-atmosphere aerosols can be in reducing incoming radiation. Surely this is an idea worth pursuing.

Issue no. 3563 published 4 October 2025

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