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

Highlights

Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering (New Scientist, Jul 16) 

Geoengineering: Assessing Risks in the Era of Planetary Security (Carnegie Europe, Jul 16) 

Live Discussion: Making sense of extreme heat and solar geoengineering SRM360 (Jul 29)

Watch or Listen

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A just path forward: Clara Botto at Arctic Repair 2025 Centre for Climate Repair (Jul 16) 

Dr Peter Irvine at the 2025 Arctic Repair Conference SRM360 (Jul 16) 

Arctic Repair–3 views on climate risk, climate engineering + imagining a future despite the risks. Nick Breeze ClimateGenn (Jul 4) 

SRM in the Media

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Top Stories

The ‘Chemtrails’ That Should Worry Us Forbes (Marshall Shepherd, Jul 20) 

Adaptation without mitigation is nonsense Friends of Europe (Heïdi Sevestre, Jul 20) 

Geoengineering debate heats up New Scientist (Michael Le Page, Jul 19) 

Earth scientists are playing with fire. Can the climate be re-engineered? UnHeard (Tom Ough, Jul 17) 

Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering New Scientist (Jul 16) 

Geoengineering: Assessing Risks in the Era of Planetary Security Carnegie Europe (Olivia Lazard, Mandi Bissett & James Dyke, Jul 16) 

Marla Maples wants cleaner skies in America as EPA investigates weather altering Fox News (Ashley J. DiMella, Jul 16) 

Climate in the Media

Study finds Southern Ocean’s surface is becoming saltier and losing sea ice, not experiencing an ‘ocean current reversal’ Science Feedback (Jul 21) 

Does catastrophe affect how we think about climate change? FT (Cass Sunstein, Jul 21) 

Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming? New Scientist (Madeline Cuff, Jul 18) 

Scientist issue warning about concerning phenomenon ahead of upcoming winter season: 'Keeps the surface cooler' The Cool Down (Daniel Gala, Jul 16) 

Cleaner air in east Asia may have driven recent acceleration in global warming, our new study indicates The Conversation (Laura Wilcox & Bjørn H. Samset, Jul 14) 

In Academia

Articles

The social costs of solar radiation management Bronsther, J., & Xu, Y. (npj Climate Action, Jul 19) 

 
Evaluation of the Stratospheric Impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection With Solar-Powered Lofting Lu, Y., Liu, C.-C., Peng, Y., Rosenlof, K. H., Bian, J., & Yu, P. (JGR Atmospheres, Jul 16) 

 
No Governance Is Governance: Mapping Solar Geoengineering Discussions in Latin America & the Caribbean Carabajal, M. I., Santi, M. F., Rodríguez Garat, C., Lisanti, G. F., Nasi, J., Daly, T., Mastroleo, I., Luna, F., & Camilloni, I. (European Journal of Risk Regulation, Jul 14)

Preprint

Time Left Estimates Based on Critical Feedback/Loops Trends: Proposed Annual Solar Geoengineering IPCC Pathways as CO2 Goals Falter Feinberg, A. (ResearchGate, June 2025) 

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