Zany Climate Ideas Show How Far Off Track We Are: Lara Williams

The worse things get for the planet, the more unworkable the suggestions to save it become.

Exhibit A comprises of proposals for climate cooling interventions focused on the polar regions, which are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Arctic, for instance, warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the globe between 1979 and 2021. Given that the poles help moderate the Earth’s temperature by reflecting large amounts of solar radiation back into space, as well as store an awful lot of freshwater in their enormous ice sheets, climate consequences in the Arctic and Antarctica will be felt around the ...