Blocking the Sun May Fight Climate Change But Kill Our Crops

Solar geoengineering—otherwise known as climate intervention—is risky as hell.

The term describes all of the methods that we can use to artificially and intentionally change the world’s climate and weather patterns to fight climate change. This includes things like carbon capture, which is the process of essentially vacuuming carbon out of the air. It can also include measures like filling swaths of the ocean with bubbles to (theoretically) stop hurricanes.

The most commonly researched and suggested method is marine cloud brightening, a process where we spray aerosols into the atmosphere to create clouds that reflect sunlight away from the Earth to cool it down. Teams of academics and researchers all over the world—and even in the White House—are looking into the method as a serious way of addressing the dire climate crisis that we’re currently facing.

Read more at The Daily Beast.