SOURCE: The Conversation
DATE: October 19, 2017
SNIP: The prospect of engineering the world’s climate system to tackle global warming is becoming more and more likely.
The 2015 Paris Agreement set out near universal, legally binding commitments to keep the increase in global temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and even to aim for limiting the rise to 1.5°C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that meeting these targets is possible – but nearly all of their scenarios rely on the extensive deployment of some form of geoengineering by the end of the century.
