While he was on stage at #ArcticRepair2025, Ramit Debnath (researcher at the Centre for Climate Repair) had published a new paper on public attitudes towards solar geoengineering. Through their surveys, the authors (led by Beatrice Magistro) found that more familiarity with the technologies lessened the influence of political ideology and partisanship.
As a result, they said, “increasing public awareness of solar geoengineering could foster bipartisan engagement with climate policy, helping bridge the ideological divide.”
For Debnath, this raises the question, “How do we communicate about solar geoengineering? Is it science-based? Is it, in a way, reducing the uncertainty behind these technologies?”
“Our survey samples,” he says, “do show that more familiarity with solar geoengineering-based techniques and solar geoengineering actually improves the perception towards these technologies.”
Check out the new study in PLOS Climate: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000643
