Articles | Volume 16, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-939-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-939-2025
Review
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10 Jul 2025
Review |  | 10 Jul 2025

The interaction of solar radiation modification with Earth system tipping elements

Gideon Futerman, Mira Adhikari, Alistair Duffey, Yuanchao Fan, Jessica Gurevitch, Peter Irvine, and Claudia Wieners

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This review assesses the interaction of solar radiation modification (SRM), a technology to reduce the impacts of climate change by reflecting sunlight and earth system tipping elements. We find that SRM at least partially reduces the risk of hitting most (9 out of 15) of the tipping points we studied relative to the same emission pathway and did not overall worsen the risk for any. Uncertainties for all tipping elements studied were high, so we also lay out suggestions for future research.
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