You’d think we’d have heard that news, but we got distracted by hot models, writes Nicholas Clairmont.
I understand why many conservatives ignore this issue, not so much denying climate science as taking a pragmatic view that the climate space mostly exists as a fig leaf for political power to be exercised against them. But two recent disputes within the climate field highlight why you can sometimes learn more from actually paying attention to this stuff than you can by tuning it out.
The letter argues very poorly. “First, the risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known.” OK, but so are the risks of not solar geoengineering. “Second, speculative hopes about the future availability of solar geoengineering technologies threaten commitments to mitigation and can disincentivize governments, businesses, and societies to do their utmost to achieve decarbonization or carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
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