Climate Change, Technology A Cool Debate About A Heated Topic

At the panel event, “Is solar geoengineering a viable tool in the climate policy arsenal?” experts discussed what’s known and what’s unknown about the controversial technology.

Is solar geoengineering a viable tool in the climate policy arsenal? The short answer is – we don’t know. In the face of such uncertainty, debate about the subject in the public sphere often becomes, well, heated. But at a panel event on April 19th, three experts – Michael Mann, Shuchi Talati and Michael Weisberg – debated the topic calmly and coolly. As Mann, the Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM), put it, “One of the great things about the environment we have here at Penn is that we can have different viewpoints and discuss them civilly and rationally.

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