UK Govt Confirmed As Funding Geoengineering Projects; Sulfate Aerosol Injections, "Restoring" Vanishing Sea Ice

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1. Stratospheric aerosol injection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. This would introduce aerosols into the stratosphere to create a cooling effect via global dimming and increased albedo, which occurs naturally from volcanic winter.[1] It appears that stratospheric aerosol injection, at a moderate intensity, could counter most changes to temperature and precipitation, take effect rapidly, have low direct implementation costs, and be reversible in its direct climatic effects.[2] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it "is the most-researched [solar geoengineering] method that it could limit warming to below 1.5 °C (2.7 °F)."[3] However, like other solar geoengineering approaches, stratospheric aerosol injection would do so imperfectly and other effects are possible,[4] particularly if used in a suboptimal manner.[5]

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Ingenuity. Pie in the Sky? Would this only politically enable more burning of fossil fuels?