The report, supposedly commissioned by Congress last year, was released the same day as similar comments from the EC
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has outlined what a geonengineering program in the US might look like in a report published Friday. The researchers stressed that their work was not meant as an endorsement of such technologies, but was merely commissioned by Congress last year as part of an appropriations bill to research “solar and other rapid climate interventions.”
The report looks at how best to research the risks, benefits and feasibility of “solar radiation modification,” which aims to control Earth’s climate by increasing the percentage of the sun’s rays reflected back into space. Stratospheric aerosol injection (shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere), and marine cloud brightening (creating whiter clouds) are both being considered.
While computer modeling suggests both methods could cool…