UCAR Atmos News: The 2-degree goal and the question of geoengineering
Response to Tilmes, S.; et al. (2016). „In a new study, the scientists found that if society doesn’t make steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the next couple of decades, injections of planet-cooling sulfates into the atmosphere could theoretically limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. But such geoengineeing would mean a sustained effort stretching over more than a century and a half, and it would fail to prevent certain aspects of climate change.“