geoengineering
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Solar Geoengineering To Cool the Planet: Is It Worth the Risks?
Once considered a crazy idea, solar geothermal engineering is gaining acceptance in some circles. But it’s not without drawbacks.
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The Limits to Human Domination of Nature
Let’s teach and learn humility, spirituality, and a reverence for the miraculous planet we have been given and must preserve for those who follow us.
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Scott Barrett is Not Hopeful About Climate Change, But He is Determined
Focusing on collective action that aligns with human nature, he studies solutions to the greatest problem facing the world today.
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We Need Laws on Geoengineering, ASAP
A new book exposes the gaps in climate engineering regulation, and explores how those gaps could be filled.
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Glacial Geoengineering: The Key to Slowing Sea Level Rise?
A new proposal suggests building underwater walls to protect glaciers from warm water. Here’s how it might work.
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Pump Meltwater Back on Antarctica? Do You Have 850,000 Wind Turbines?
A new study that looked at the feasibility of lowering sea levels by pumping water onto icy Antarctica offers a warning about the costs today’s greenhouse gas emissions may be creating for future generations.
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The Double-Edged Sword of Geoengineering
Shooting sulfur particles into the stratosphere to reflect the sun? Dumping iron into the ocean to boost the absorption of carbon dioxide? Could these far-fetched and dangerous-sounding schemes—geoengineering—help avert potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, or would they exacerbate conditions on our ever warming planet?
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Climate News Roundup — Week of 6/14
Bill Gates funds cloud-whitening effort to reduce global warming. USA Today Bill Gates is funding research into whether or not it is effective and feasible to increase the albedo of atmospheric clouds by spray sea mist high into the atmosphere. The plan, spearheaded by Silicon Valley inventor Armand Neukermans, is a relatively benign method of…
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