swissinfo: "Is playing with the sun to fight climate change worth the risk?"

by Luigi Jorio & Kai Reusser

“SRM has always been a question of when [it will be deployed], not if,” Gernot Wagner, climate economist, author and co-founder of Harvard University’s solar geoengineering research programme, tells SWI swissinfo.ch in an email.

“Sadly, what has been happening since noon on January 20 has only made eventual deployment more likely,” Wagner says, referring to Donald Trump’s second term as president.

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