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In addition, not everyone agrees that experiments at those scales will get us to the point where we\u2019re capable of making an \u201cinformed decision.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wil Burns, a research professor and legal scholar at American University and a signatory to the International Non-Use Agreement, fears that scientists won\u2019t be able to understand the extent of the potential downsides, including impacts on the protective ozone layer and changes to regional precipitation patterns, until we\u2019re carrying out full-fledged solar geoengineering.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe research would give you some answers,\u201d he says. \u201cI just don\u2019t think it gives you answers that are that relevant. To get to those relevant answers, you have to deploy at scale\u2014and I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s ever tenable.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because, in his view, using the technology would violate principles of intergenerational equity: If the world continues emitting greenhouse gases, increased levels of solar geoengineering would merely mask the continued warming of the planet. Burns says that means future generations\u2014people who had no say in its use\u2014couldn\u2019t turn it off without triggering a sudden surge of warming, known as termination shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat that would do, in my mind, is put a sword of Damocles over future generations,\u201d he says. \u201cSo even if you could, quote-unquote, \u2018prove it works,\u2019 I don\u2019t think from an intergenerational perspective it would ever be tenable.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Some researchers, however, have argued that the risks of termination shock are less likely than often assumed\u2014and that solar geoengineering could be slowly dialed down over time.)<\/p>\n
Ilan Gur, the former CEO of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the UK research department that funded 21 geoengineering research projects last year, applauds Reflective\u2019s road map.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you\u2019re a scientist or a policymaker or just a concerned citizen, our goal should be as quickly and efficiently as possible to answer the biggest questions scientifically that would tell us [whether] this is an approach that might work or that would never work,\u201d he says. \u201cWe should all want to spend the effort and money to buy down that uncertainty, so my view is 100% the approach that Reflective is taking is the right one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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