This season, you'll hear pitches on everything from a better catch-up to a potential solution to one of the biggest problems of our time. Kevin Surprise is a lecturer in environmental studies at Mount Holyoke College. He's been studying solar geoengineering for about 10 years now. There are many risks when introducing novel climate that would result from injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.
Solar geoengineering — the idea of cooling the planet by deflecting the sun’s rays — is so risky that scientists and policy experts can’t even agree on whether to research it.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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