Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineering Projects
Chemicals in the Atmosphere sirqitous via Flickr A majority of people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States support studying ways to reflect sunlight as a method to cool the planet, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard and two Canadian universities say nearly three-quarters of survey respondents approved research into geoengineering. The survey, which was just published although it was conducted last year, focused on solar radiation management, a type of geoengineering that seeks to increase the Earth's albedo by creating clouds or through other means. Support for the technique was spread across the political spectrum, the researchers say. But people who defined themselves as politically conservative expressed the strongest opposition to geoengineering. Only eight percent of people were able to correctly define what geoengineering means, with about 45 percent able to define the alternative term "climate engineering," which is apparently easier to figure out. The survey findings come...