Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: the creation, using balloons or jets, of a manmade atmospheric sunshade to shield the most vulnerable countries in the global south against the worst effects of global warming.

Solar geoengineering has been floated as an
‘outlandish and unsettling’ answer to climate change.

But amid mounting interest in “solar geoengineering” – not least among western universities – a group of scientists from developing countries has issued a forceful call to have a greater say in the direction of research into climate change, arguing that their countries are the ones with most at stake.

Scientists have long known that manmade events like pollution in the atmosphere, smoke from forest fires and volcanic eruptions can create a cooling effect.

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Developing countries could sue for climate action: Study

A new study out says vulnerable countries could sue the United States and other industrialized nations for action on climate change.

A road in the Roseau area, Dominica, is littered with debris,
uprooted vegetation and felled poles and power lines from
Hurricane Maria, September 19, 2017.

The report, published by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), based in the United Kingdom, says small island nations and other threatened countries have the right and likely the procedural means to pursue an inter-state case before the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.

“Some of these countries are getting increasingly desperate,” Christoph Schwarte, the paper’s lead author, said. With little movement toward a new global climate change treaty, he said, many leaders are looking for ways to make the United States and others understand the threats they face from rising sea levels, droughts and storm surges.

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