Op-Ed & Analysis·Nov 4, 2025

Why the For-Profit Race into Solar Geoengineering is Bad for Science and Public Trust

via MIT Technology Review
Two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 22, 2025

A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet

via The New York Times
We should celebrate cleaner air, but we also have to reckon with an unintended consequence. It turns out that by reflecting sunlight back into space, tiny sulfur particles protected Earth from about a third of the warming caused by human...
Podcast episode·May 6, 2025

Beyond Offsets: How to Build a Carbon Removal Industry

via RBC
David Keith, a pioneering climate scientist and founder of Carbon Engineering, unpacks the technological, policy, and economic hurdles to direct air capture and other approaches.
Op-Ed & Analysis·Dec 18, 2024

Comparing the benefits and risks of solar geoengineering

By: David Keith and Anthony Harding (Georgia Tech) Climate change has risks—and those risks are only increasing. Many of these might be reduced by solar geoengineering. Solar geoengineering also has risks, and it requires rigorous, transparent research before it is...
Video·Nov 1, 2024

Climate Systems Engineering: A Research-First Approach to a Multidimensional Challenge

Amy Harder moderated a discussion with Climate Systems Engineering initiative Director David Keith, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Hina Rabbani Khar, and President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Nat Keohane.
Podcast episode·Dec 2, 2023

A radical solution to address climate change, with David Keith

via Big Brains
Solar geoengineering technology holds possibilities and pitfalls, renowned scientist argues
Op-Ed & Analysis·Sep 28, 2023

David Keith on why carbon removal won’t save big oil but may help the climate

via The Economist
Greens should cheer the blurring of the industry’s interests, says the academic