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Go ahead and alter the atmosphere, no one’s going to stop you — probably

It’s still the Wild West for solar geoengineering.

One scrappy startup — really just a couple of guys grilling fungicide and launching the resulting sulfur dioxide gas aboard weather balloons — pissed a lot of people off by forging ahead with its solar geoengineering experiments in Mexico and the US since 2022. Switzerland came to the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, this week proposing a plan to establish an expert panel to study the “risks and opportunities” of solar geoengineering, Climate Home News reports. These technologies cannot tackle the root causes of the climate crisis and would instead enable major polluters to delay the urgent need to phase out fossil fuels,” Mary Church, senior geoengineering campaigner at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), said in a statement yesterday.

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