News coverage of SCoPEx- The Times
Gideon Futerman
Bill Gates backs bid to cool Earth with chalk dust | News | The Times
It is behind a paywall, but nonetheless a discussion of solar geoengineering in popular media
Douglas MacMartin
Media coverage of SCoPEx is stunningly bad, I have to say.
“As it climbs to an altitude of 12 miles it will cross a historic threshold: the first serious attempt to explore whether global warming could be kept in check by dimming the sun”
Seriously? It’s a tiny experiment to measure some chemical reaction rates that inform/improve climate models… it is a historic threshold perhaps in the first deliberate material release experiment in the stratosphere that is specifically intended to inform SAI, but not the first in any other sense, and I don’t know why that is somehow magically more “serious” than all the rest of the research to date. Popular media has a dismal track record in this field.
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