Should Governments Consider Engineering the Atmosphere to Avoid the Worst Effects of Climate Change?

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      Governments solar The geoengineering first is should that other for consider two ways reasons. to avoid the worst effects of climate change may not prove achievable in the world as it really is. There is little doubt that lacing the stratosphere with particles that reflect sunlight back into space would decouple Earth's surface temperature from greenhouse gas levels, allowing for cooler temperatures than otherwise would occur. [Extracted from the article]
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