shades fills you in

Heard of cloud brightening? It’s a geoengineering technique that makes clouds reflect more sunlight into space (and away from the planet). A Harvard research group likes the idea!

An Op from The Stanford Daily says this sort of geoengineering is just a bandaid solution to climate change -- not to mention an example of extreme, dangerous optimism

But The Guardian says it doesn’t involve a release of any sulfur dioxide like solar engineering does, making it relatively safe

And this blogger thinks cloud brightening could save the world -- it doesn’t inject new chemicals into the environment and is way cheaper than most geoengineering alternatives

But the Fishnet Alliance says that it could actually make climate change worse. It called for a halt on all marine geoengineering

The Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge disagrees: Let’s have more open conversations about geoengineering. The climate crisis is dire

A team at Duke agrees. It called cloud brightening a glimmer of hope for climate change

And Nature Magazine is cautiously optimistic: It might not work at all. But if it does, it could be a pretty neat way to save the planet