“The risks of not doing something need to be compared against the risks of trying to do something. The research has to continue at pace because of the pace of climate change,” says Dr. Shaun Fitzgerald, director at the Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge, in response to critics who argue that the potential risks of geoengineering outweigh the benefits.
From mirrors in space to underwater curtains, the Guardian article underlines the vast array of potential geoengineering strategies that were the topics of conversation during the Arctic Repair 2025 conference last month, each with its pros and cons.
“We want to get them down to maybe 10 [ideas] that it’s possible to proceed with. No one is talking about deployment yet... [b]ut we may have ideas that work if we start them now; if we don’t do something for 30 years, it could be too late,” states John Moore, a research professor at the University of Lapland and the lead of the Thematic Network on Frozen Arctic Conservation.
Read the whole article here at The Guardian's website. Originally published on June 25, 2025 by Oren Gruenbaum.