Climate engineering can't erase climate change

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/sfu-cec060314.php

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 3-Jun-2014
Contact: Carol Thorbes
Simon Fraser University
Climate engineering can't erase climate change

Tinkering with climate change through climate engineering isn't going to help us get around what we have to do says a new report authored by researchers at six universities, including Simon Fraser University.

After evaluating a range of possible climate-altering approaches to dissipating greenhouse gases and reducing warming, the interdisciplinary team concluded there's no way around it. We have to reduce the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere.

"Some climate engineering strategies look very cheap on paper. But when you consider other criteria, like ecological risk, public perceptions and the abilities of governments to control the technology, some options look very bad," says Jonn Axsen.

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