September 2019

Uncovering the Origins of False Claims in the Solar Geoengineering Discourse

By Jesse L. Reynolds

The story behind a recent news article reveals how activist groupswith the media’s helpcause misleading and false assertions to arise, persist, and spread.

Much of my work concerns solar geoengineering, a set of proposals to block or reflect a small portion of incoming sunlight in order to reduce global warming. Unfortunately, the discourse is rife with specious, misrepresented, and outright false statements – many of which are consistent with intuition – that are repeated until they acquire a sheen of quasi-truth...

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