The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer. Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/solar-geoengineering-uk

by The_Weekend_Baker

2 comments

  1. This is not an impartial article at all. I don’t like geoengineering but I think it buys us time because humans are short sighted pricks.

  2. If its so ineffective, why is it also so “*extremely dangerous*”?

    > The fix is more like taking aspirin for cancer, treating symptoms but leaving the underlying malignancy to keep growing.

    This is also really unfair, given that UK is at the forefront of net zero efforts.

    The article seems to be about stopping the creation of “dangerous knowledge” which looks pretty silly.

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