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Why We Should(n't) Geoengineer Our Planet

The Brief

  • Geoengineering is presented as an extreme and risky response to worsening climate impacts.
  • Global climate geoengineering could have large unintended consequences.
  • Targeted regional geoengineering aimed at specific impacts such as sea level rise and extreme weather is discussed as shifting the risk balance.
  • The video asks whether the risk is worth taking and whether the climate can really be 'hacked'.

Why watch · It weighs the trade-offs of deliberate climate intervention, a question with major implications for policy and risk.

  • Geoengineering
  • Climate change
  • Sea level rise

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As our climate changes and we face the ever worsening impacts, researchers are turning to an extreme and risky solution: geoengineering. But while geoengineering our entire climate could have huge, unintended consequences, the possibility of geoengineering specific regions to address clear climate impacts - from sea level rise to extreme weather - shifts the balance. So is it worth the risk? And can we really hack our climate? Ella's Deep Dive: https://youtu.be/HUTVDfDqhEw?si=Q-qpxQSqwcisISp8 Support Dr Gilbz on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Dr_Gilbz/ Support ClimateAdam on patreon: http://patreon.com/climateadam #ClimateChange #geoengineering #science bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climateadam.bsky.social instagram: http://instagram.com/climate_adam ==MORE INFO== Ella's deep dive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUTVDfDqhEw Polar study on risks: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full The danger of gaming our climate: https://www.wired.com/story/they-war-gamed-dimming-the-sun-it-went-even-worse-than-you-think/ Video on Antarctic sea curtain: https://youtu.be/WcQ4BzHGaS8?si=z9ZHbze63tdgzQEr Video with @hankschannel on Solar Geoengineering: https://youtu.be/Gs-ed1CEokc?si=mHL9XVpHsOwNeDxr Recend video with @hankschannel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGfvfGeVdrY ==CREDITS== Solar geoengineering from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Sea ice loss from NOAA Perpetual ocean from NASA