Climate Change Is Worse Than We Thought

The challenge of climate change and its warrior activists have asked many things of us -- changing to energy-efficient lightbulbs, biking to work, flying less, turning off the lights more often, and more -- but even with the most severe treatment for the global threat, a new report from the Proceedings from the National Acadmey of Sciences of the United States of America says that repairing the damage will prove extremely difficult and non-cost-effective.

Severe treatment would mean injecting "sulphur dioxode particles equivalent to a major volcanic eruption, such as that of Mt Pinatubo, every 18 months to reduce temperatures and delay ice-cap melt and sea-level rises," The Ecologist reports. Other options include installing mirrors in space and afforestation. All of the above fall under the category of "geoengineering."

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Author: Jenara Nerenberg