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Harvard cancels solar geoengineering experiment

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A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why

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Harvard researchers canceled plans to send solar geoengineering particles up into the atmosphere.

A policy analysis published in the journal Science highlights how important it is to talk to people on the ground before launching an experiment.

A big point of contention was that the researchers didn’t initially reach out to the Saami Council .

There has been a moratorium on large-scale geoengineering since 2010 , but it excludes small-scale scientific research.

Last year , the founders of one geoengineering startup grilled fungicide in a California parking lot to produce sulfur dioxide gas that they then attempted to launch into the atmosphere via weather balloons.

There have been calls to either lay down rules for how to regulate future experiments or to stop solar geoengineering altogether.

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