Elizabeth Kolbert's "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future"
LA Review of Books
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Solar Geo Engineering - What Is It?
The final two chapters of your book are dedicated to solar geo engineering. The idea behind a solar je engineering is that, you know, we've already intervened in the climate very dramatically by pouring a lot of carbon dioxide into it. We would shoot some kind of compound into the stratosphere. And what that would do would be, it would create this reflective haze, which would bolunce sunlight back toward space. So we would actually be receiving less direct sunlight on earth. And that would have a cooling effect.
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