Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever-warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high-powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines. On Thursday, the newly formed Climate Overshoot Commission — which includes the former presidents of Mexico, Niger …
The U.S. must seriously consider the idea of tinkering with the atmosphere to cool a warming Earth and accelerate research into how and whether humanity should hack the planet, the National Academy of Sciences said Thursday. “Climate engineering is a really dumb idea, but it might not be as dumb as doing nothing at this point or continuing to do …
