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Sep 5, 2012

Sunshade to fight climate change costed at $5 bln a year | Reuters

(Reuters) - Planes or airships could carry sun-dimming materials high into the atmosphere for an affordable price tag of below $5 billion a year as a way to slow climate change, a study indicated on Friday.

Guns, rockets or a pipeline into the stratosphere would be more expensive but generally far cheaper than policies to cut world greenhouse gas emissions, estimated to cost between $200 billion and $2 trillion a year by 2030..

The strategy, called "solar radiation management", broadly imitates a volcanic eruption.

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