Can climate engineering be responsibly tested?

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Can climate engineering be responsibly tested?

Regardless of whether one is for or against solar geoengineering, scholars agree that the technology does not address the root cause of climate change. Moving away from burning fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere is crucial to combat global warming.

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Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming | Communications Earth & Environment (nature.com)

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Well there’s a kind of test !

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Clearing the air on shipping pollution and climate change - Splash247

News of a study made recent climate headlines stating that cutting pollution from global shipping accelerates heating of our planet and oceans.
The study concludes that UN air pollution rules introduced in 2020 aimed at cutting sulphur content in shipping fuels caused an “inadvertent geoengineering termination shock”, with significant global warming impacts.
Many leading scientists have since reacted that there’s more to this story than is apparent at first glance. They argue that the extreme ocean temperatures recorded over the past year cannot be solely blamed on shipping’s sulphur reductions, and that there likely is a whole range of factors contributing to this effect.