Surprise: Geoengineering risks becoming an excuse to delay fossil fuel emissions cuts
Dr. Kevin Surprise · A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry · Mar 15, 2023 · at 13:53
Environmental studies researcher Dr. Kevin Surprise discusses the moral hazard of solar radiation management research.
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“They are the potential for Solar geoengineering to become a kind of techno fix that is, ah, latched onto by particular economic and political actors to delay, ah, mitigation and energy transitions, the fossil fuel industry, and in so doing, that becomes a kind of a crutch that particular interests will lean on to avoid cutting emissions.”
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