When technologies change the climate: a worst-case scenario and human responses
Assistant Professor Chad M. Baum from AU Herning researches how people understand and perceive technologies designed to influence the climate – for example by removing CO2 from the air or reflecting sunlight. In a new article in Omnibus, he explains how a former worst-case scenario has now become reality, and why solutions require regulation, cooperation and local voices.
What happens when technologies capable of affecting the Earth’s entire climate are deployed without shared rules? In 2025, a worst-case scenario became real when a private actor planned to release particles into the atmosphere without regulation or transparency.
Chad M. Baum, Assistant Professor at AU Herning, is part of a European research project that examines how people respond to this type of technology, and how concerns, hopes and dialogue shape the debate. In his new project, he is working with Danish farmers on CO2 removal using crushed rock spread on fields. At the same time, the farmers are given a voice in the development of solutions that are practical and usable in real life.
Read the full interview in Omnibus and gain insight into how people understand and respond to technologies that influence the climate.