Plans to save ice in the polar regions and "repair" the climate using technology are a "flawed" distraction from the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases, according to a new scientific assessment.
The review of proposals to reflect sunlight or use barriers to keep warm sea water at bay concludes they are too expensive, hard to scale up and may do more harm than good.
But British scientists due to carry out one of the first trials of geoengineering in the Arctic this winter say no idea can be off the table.
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