Dimming the Sun: The Urgent Case for Geoengineering

A groundbreaking, vital examination of a powerful-and extremely controversial-stopgap solution to looming climate catastrophe



Earth stands at a tipping point. As we fail to curtail emissions fast enough, our planet stares down a cascade of imminent, catastrophic, and irreversible disaster triggered by climate change. Yet a potent technology already exists to buy us more time: solar geoengineering. Through methods such as atmospheric aerosols, human-generated cirrus clouds, and solar sails, w...