The Machines That Could Darken the Sun to Stop Climate Change
Climate change is an increasingly dangerous antagonist, and we’re not doing a great job curtailing it. Which is why, in the not too distant future, we may have to undertake a new, Manhattan Project-style endeavor to hold back the rising mercury. Once a fringe idea, there’s now a growing possibility we’ll build machines that will,…
Chemtrails Aren’t the Geoengineering Debate We Should Be Having (Because They Aren’t Real)
Solar geoengineering is controversial, and for good reason. It describes a set of technologies that seeks to reflect a small fraction of sunlight back into space to cool the planet. The most prominent such technology involves deliberately injecting tiny reflective particles into the stratosphere. There’s a serious debate worth having, both on the science and…
Climate Action Is Coming to Museums Across America
For decades, in an attempt to fight climate change misinformation, science communicators have focused almost exclusively on fear. And experts at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences (Cal Academy) are starting to worry all those doom-and-gloom stories of melting icebergs, rising sea levels, and dying polar bears are adding up to a public that has…