Controversial Method Of Addressing Climate Change Needs More Study, Experts Say

WASHINGTON — A pair of reports from one of the country’s leading scientific bodies suggests that while geoengineering should not be treated as the solution to climate change, it merits further investigation.

The National Academy of Sciences released the reports on geoengineering, or deliberately changing the earth’s atmosphere in order to address climate change, on Tuesday. They review the current science on methods to remove carbon removal from the atmosphere and examine measures that could be used to enhance the reflection of sunlight off the earth, known as albedo modification.

But Nicholson emphasized the need for caution going forward.

“It makes far more sense,” he said, “to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in the first place than it does to put faith in speculative schemes to draw down carbon once it has already been emitted.”

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