Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

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By Jessica McKenzieJul 6, 2024, 9:00 am327 pts
In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated. “The room was getting…

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