'Climate studies are increasingly becoming politicized'

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An "intense backlash" forced Harvard University to shut down a "key geoengineering research project"

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published 6 May 2024

'The world can't afford to politicize climate change research'

Bjorn Lomborg in The Boston Globe

The hard truth is that focusing on cutting carbon emissions and investing in solar and wind power isn't doing enough to address climate change, says Bjorn Lomborg. We need to consider more potential fixes. One is geoengineering, which seeks to "directly reduce the planet's temperature" with approaches like emitting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to "cool the planet." But climate research is being "politicized." An "intense backlash" forced Harvard University to shut down a "key geoengineering research project."

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