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GEOENGINEERING

Can we engineer the environment to avoid a climate crisis? The idea of geoengineering has many academics and scientists contemplating ways to tinker with nature to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. But tweaking Mother Nature may come with unforeseen consequences. Here we explore the nascent efforts, emerging industries, and ongoing debate around geoengineering.

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Geoengineering Goes Mainstreammore

The MIT Technology Review ? one of my favorite magazines ? writes about geoengineering in the January/February 2010...

Geoengineering: Resisting the Dangerous Allure of Global Warming Techn...more

As the world weighs how to deal with warming, the idea of human manipulation of climate systems is gaining attention.

It's an entropic day in the neighborhoodmore

era in which unprecedented globalization and economic interdependence, liberal-democratic hegemony, nanotechnology,...

Sexy science: another heated debatemore

but there may also be a place for doing something about the CO2 already in the atmosphere through geo-engineering.

Geoengineering's Big Break?more

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Four Sides to Every Storymore

would expect denialists to grasp at stranger straws, many skeptics to become warners, the warners to start pushing...

Copenhagen Confusionmore

on Mon Dec. 14, 2009 10:18 AM PST. Oh yeah, he wants to see us working on geo-engineering projects. Now when the...

Copenhagen: The First Weekmore

Anonymous (not verified) on Mon Dec. 14, 2009 12:26 PM PST. science communicator' 's report in about GeoEngineering.

Reader responses to the Guardian climate change leader projectmore

plays their part, scientists will be able to tell us how far off we will be by 2020. Geoengineering, however risky,...

Beautiful Junkmore

of the world?s problems. We wrote about their efforts to thwart hurricanes and to stop global warming through...

Oceans absorb a quarter of annual emissions: reportmore

dramatic changes. "A substantial and urgent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions is the only solution.

The answer could be blowing in the windmore

test of time and economic reality. I know what will not work and should never be embarked on: geo-engineering.

We have just ten years to avert climate change catastrophe, Met Office...more

would involve 'negative emissions' - or removing CO2 from the air. If carbon output peaks later than 2020,...

'Ten years remain' to cut carbonmore

the air - she said. And if emissions peak later than 2020, negative emissions - a form of geo-engineering - would be...

Going Cheney on Climatemore

into the atmosphere stays there for many years, so it is irreversible in real-time (barring some feat of...

Should Earth Scientists Take a ‘Hippocratic Oath’?more

It! Name Our New Geological Age: The Contest Op-Ed: Stop Trying to Save the Planet Report From Antarctica:...

Cash for Caulkers could seal $12,000 a homemore

Geoengineering, or deliberately tinkering with the earth's climate, could help if global warming proves disastrous for...

Copenhagen: Focus on the (Carbon) Negativemore

spur carbon-eating phytoplankton growth or flooding the atmosphere with sulfur dioxide to reflect sunlight—involve...

Pyramid scheme lets audience vote for climate solutions | Ed Gillespiemore

18th. • Ed Gillespie is the co-founder of Futerra Sustainability Communications Copenhagen climate change conference...

Show Me The Warmingmore

used as 'proof' that global warming is 'a hoax.' But in one e-mail, a top 'warmist' researcher admits 'Geoengineering,'...

Carbon 'must be sucked from the atmosphere'more

Instead, he said, a 1.5C rise was a safer target. Dr Pachauri raised the prospect of so-called geo-engineering, whereby...

Copenhagen, Schmopenhagenmore

There will be no climate treaty to emerge from the conference in Copenhagen this month, global leaders now concede.

Spacey ideas to cool Earthmore

is already wreaking havoc in some parts of the world. The proposals belong to a field known as geo-engineering, or...

Geoengineering warning to Congressmore

can reverse global warming. The testimony also covered issues of how to calculate and then govern any major...

Fake concrete trees work like the real thingmore

change is wreaking havoc in some parts of the world. The proposals belong to a field known as geo-engineering, or...

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  • Christian Science Monitor
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