When it comes to mitigating climate change, one set of techniques aims to tackle the problem by making large-scale alterations to our weather. Sometimes called "climate engineering" or "geoengineering," these techniques seek to address rising temperatures by altering the earth's climate system. Geoengineering techniques can be divided into two major classes: those that modify solar radiation and those that remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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