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the injection of aerosols into the stratosphere could disrupt monsoons
Jones, A. C., et al., ‘Impacts of hemispheric solar geoengineering on tropical cyclone frequency‘, Nature Communications, 8, 2017: 1382, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01606-0.if … the sun-dimming aerosols were to stop
Pierrehumbert, R., and Mann, M., ‘Some say we can “solar-engineer” ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it’, Guardian. 22 April 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/22/climate-crisis-emergency-earth-day.such technologies cannot be managed equitably and safely
See ‘We call for an international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering’, Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement, https://www.solargeoeng.org/. -
global systems of governance that could function without failure
Stephens, J. C., et al., ‘The dangers of mainstreaming solar geoengineering: a critique of the National Academies report’, Environmental Politics, 18 October 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1989214.deepening today’s inequities … and escalating the risk of wars
Stephens, J. C., et al., ‘The risks of solar geoengineering research’, Science, 372 (6547), 2021: 1161, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj3679.the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
‘Climate-related geoengineering and biodiversity’, United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, 23 March 2017, https://www.cbd.int/climate/geoengineering/.vested interests mainstreaming the idea of geoengineering
Stephens, J. C., and Surprise, K., ‘The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research’, Global Sustainability, 3, 2020: Article e2, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2019.28.Suggesting that geoengineering is a ‘plan B’
See for example Pierrehumbert, R., ‘There is no plan B for dealing with the climate crisis’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 75 (5), 2019: 215–21, https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2019.1654255.