Geoengineering can’t solve long term-risks catastrophic spikes in temp

(Julia, Daniel Manzi and Ginger Zee, https://abcnews.go.com/US/geoengineering-technologies-combat-climate-crisis-scientists/story?id=98476205)

While using engineering technologies to combat the climate crisis is a welcome solution, more needs to be done, experts say. Conservation of natural resources on Earth, such as water and fossil fuels, is one way. The "real solution," Field says, is bringing greenhouse gas emissions to a net zero. "The idea with these techniques would be to not necessarily deal with greenhouse gases but to change the energy balance," Field said. Implementing these techniques could eventually lead to a "slippery slope" of more problems, Field said. Geoengineering does not combat the root of the problem, Wennberg said. "If we use these techniques, the greenhouse gases are still in the atmosphere, the oceans are still becoming more acid," Field said. "And if we were ever stopped doing the solar geoengineering interventions, the temperatures would very rapidly warm."