Welcome to our weekly round-up of SRM news and events.  

Highlights

Should We Dim the Sun? (The Aspen Institute, Jun 26) 

The Arctic Is Running Out of Time (SRM360, Jun 25) 

Increased Familiarity Reduces Political Polarization in Public Attitudes Toward Solar Geoengineering (ScienMag, Jun 26) 

Political ideology and views toward solar geoengineering in the United States (PLOS Climate, Jun 26) 

When Are Small-Scale Field Experiments in Solar Geoengineering Worth Pursuing (PhilSci Archive, Jun 28) 

Watch or Listen

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Solar Geoengineering FOLLOW UP - mit Dr. Thomas Ramge Ali Hackalife (Jun 29) 

Should We Dim the Sun? The Aspen Institute (Jun 26) 

UK Gov. Debate Solar Radiation Modification geoengineering Nick Breeze ClimateGenn (Jun 24) 

Smoke and Mirrors: Geoengineering and International Law The Climate Justice Podcast (Jun 24) 

The Long Heat, with Wim Carton Wicked Problems (Jun 22) 

Community

The Arctic Is Running Out of Time SRM360 (Hugh Hunt, Jun 25) 

Misguided Proposals to Ban Geoengineering in US States Lose Steam SRM360 (Craig Segall, Jun 24) 

DSG launch New Website DSG (June 2025) 

Marine Cloud Brightening in a complex world – moving beyond the Twomey effect. Proposal to the Advanced Research + Invention Agency: Exploring Climate Cooling Programme Southern Cross University (June 2025) 

SRM in the Media

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Top Stories

Africa Is Not a Solar Geoengineering Test Site Project Syndicate (Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey, Jun 30) 

Climate Geoengineering: From Research To Public Debates Sigma Earth (Dr. Emily Greenfield, Jun 27) 

Increased Familiarity Reduces Political Polarization in Public Attitudes Toward Solar Geoengineering ScienMag (Jun 26) 

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate Science Smithsonian Magazine (Max G. Levy, Jun 25) 

Can solar geoengineering solve the climate crisis? Think Landscape (Augusta Dwyer, Jun 25) 

Mirrors in space and underwater curtains: can technology buy us enough time to save the Arctic ice caps? The Guardian (Oren Gruenbaum, Jun 25) 

Thousands join anti-geoengineering protest in London, and they have good reason Before It’s News (Jun 24) 

Climate in the Media

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying The Guardian (Nina Lakhani, Jun 30) 

Bonn climate talks end with agreement on 10% funding boost for UNFCCC Edie (Sarah George, Jun 27) 

The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm AP (Alexa St. John, Jun 27) 

‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points The Guardian (Jonathan Watts, Jun 27) 

The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster. New York Times (Jun 26) 

Heat dome passes, but climate-fueled waves aren’t going anywhere The Hill (Rachel Frazin, Jun 25) 

In Academia

Articles

Political ideology and views toward solar geoengineering in the United States Magistro, B., Debnath, R., Ebanks, D., Wennberg, P. O., Alvarez, R. M. (PLOS Climate, Jun 26) 

West Africa’s Rising Tide: Shaping the Future of Marine Geoengineering Governance Mahamah, A. H. (Ocean Yearbook Online, Jun 20) 

Key Gaps in Models' Physical Representation of Climate Intervention and Its Impacts Eastham, S. D., Butler, A. H., Doherty, S. J., Gasparini, B., Tilmes, S., Bednarz, E. M., Burkhardt, U., Chiodo, G., Cziczo, D. J., Diamond, M. S., Keith, D. W., Leisner, T., MacMartin, D. G., Quaas, J., Rasch, P. J., Sourdeval, O., Steinke, I., Thompson, C., Visioni, D., Wood, R., Xia, L., Yu, P. (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Jun 19) 

Preprint

When Are Small-Scale Field Experiments in Solar Geoengineering Worth Pursuing O'Loughlin, R, Visioni, D. (PhilSci Archive, Jun 28) 

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