As climate change continues to worsen, and fires rage across the planet, it’s time to ask, can we fix this? This video takes you through Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, how it works, the dangers and advantages.
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Research:
Scientific Assessment Of Ozone Depletion 2022 (WMO 2022)
https://ozone.unep.org/science/assessment/sap
Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/climate-change-tripled-heat-related-deaths-in-early-summer-european-heatwave.php
Injecting solid particles into the stratosphere could mitigate global warming but currently entails great uncertainties [Vattioni et al., 2025]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02038-1
Global Cooling After the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo: A Test of Climate Feedback by Water Vapor
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.296.5568.727
Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate aerosol and solar dimming climate interventions based on the G6 Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) simulations
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/4557/2022/
Low-Altitude High-Latitude Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Is Feasible With Existing Aircraft
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024EF005567
Climate response to off-equatorial stratospheric sulfur injections in three Earth system models – Part 1: Experimental protocols and surface changes
[Visioni et al. (2023)]
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/663/2023/
Hemispherically symmetric strategies for stratospheric aerosol injection
https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/15/191/2024/
How does the latitude of stratospheric aerosol injection affect the climate in UKESM1?
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/24/13253/2024/
Injection near the stratopause mitigates the stratospheric side effects of sulfur-based climate intervention [Yu et al,. 2025]
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/18449/2025/
Side Effects of Sulfur-Based Geoengineering Due To Absorptivity of Sulfate Aerosols
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107285
Improved aerosol radiative properties as a foundation for solar geoengineering risk assessment
[Dykema et al., 2016]
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL069258
Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate aerosol and solar dimming climate interventions based on the G6 Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) simulations
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/4557/2022/
Impacts of stratospheric sulfate geoengineering on tropospheric ozone
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.18070
Climate change pushing nature towards dangerous tipping points
https://www.wwf.org.uk/articles/global-tipping-points-report
Reaching 1.5 and 2.0 °C global surface temperature targets using stratospheric aerosol geoengineering [Tilmes et al., 2020]
https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/11/579/2020/
Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate geoengineering: Results from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JD020566
Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s
https://web.archive.org/web/20251004015137/https://phys.org/news/2025-10-world-ablaze-1980s.html
