‘Climate Hacking’ Would Be Easy – That Doesn’t Mean We Should Do It

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Just mimic this a few dozen times and we’ll be right. Right? Taro Taylor/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Some people might argue that the greatest moral challenge of our time is serious enough to justify deliberately tampering with our climate to stave off the damaging effects of global warming.

Geoengineering, or “climate hacking”, to use its more emotive nickname, is a direct intervention in the natural environments of our planet, including our atmosphere, seas and oceans.