Merk, Christine; et al. (2015): Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts
Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; Rehdanz, Katrin (2015): Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts. Kiel Institute for the World Economy (ifw working paper, 2006).
„This is the first study to provide an empirical evaluation of this claim for individuals. In a large-scale framed field experiment with more than 650 participants, we show that people do not back-pedal on mitigation when they learn that the climate change problem could be partly addressed via SAI. Instead, we observe that people who have been informed about SAI mitigate more than people who have not.“