Can clouds of Moon dust combat climate change?
- Written by: Aaron Tang, PhD Scholar in Climate Governance, Australian National University
NASA Advanced Concepts LaboratoryA group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth.
In their plan, we would mine dust on the Moon and shoot it out towards the Sun. The dust would stay between the Sun and Earth for around a...












