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Geoengineering Could Solve Climate Change, Say Scientists

Matthew Fiala — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:26:48 +0000

Solar geoengineering sounds like the stuff of science fiction, using balloons or jets to introduce an atmospheric sunshade to stop global warming. A group of scientists from developing countries interested in solar geoengineering demanded to have a greater say in the direction of research into climate change, arguing that their countries have the most at […]

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Geoengineering Techniques Debated by IPCC

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:21:47 +0000

The IPCC report, released almost two weeks ago, is still one of the leading news across the net. We could not have expected anything different, of course, since the danger that it predicts will affect every one of us. The U.N. Panel of experts as well as international governments are nearly in a state of […]

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Geoengineering Likely to Worsen Climate Change, Not Fight It

Mila Luleva — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:38:12 +0000

Geoengineering techniques have received quite a bit of attention over the past decade. One of the main reasons for this, is that they could potentially present a fast and very effective mean to prevent devastating climate change. But, as it now turns out, this statement is nothing more than a claim, or an assumption, without […]

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Climate Change Geoengineers Pretty Much Free to Do As They Please

Benji Jerew — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:27:46 +0000

Addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions could probably be referred to as a passive step in the right direction, but geoengineers want to make a more active steps. Man has been geoengineering since he discovered agriculture. Plowing, planting, and irrigating led to a more secure harvest when compared to simple hunter gatherer methods. […]

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CIA Funds Geoengineering Project That Could Reverse Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:39:41 +0000

Reversing global warming using geoengineering methods has become increasingly interesting to the CIA, NASA and NOAA. The three agencies have been funding a project of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which is set to find the best geoengineering solution against increasing temperatures. The NAS project does not have an aim to conduct any practices. […]

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Reducing Climate Change Using Geo-engineering Technology

Mila Luleva — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:33:53 +0000

This week, at the MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech conference, Professor David Keith said that the only way to reduce the risk of climate change is to use geo-engineering technology. The professor of public policy and applied physics at University of Harvard proposes to shade the Earth by imitating the process during large volcanic eruptions. […]

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Converting Deserts Into Forests Would Stop Global Warming

Mike Sandru — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:15 +0000

Researcher Leonard Ornstein has come up with a simple plan to stop global warming. He proposes that turning Sahara and the Australian outback into vast, shady forests, could draw down about 8 billion tons of carbon a year, nearly as much as people emit from burning forests and fossil fuels today.

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Throwing Chemicals Into The Air – Solution to Global Warming?

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:45:21 +0000

Certain bright minds say we should throw trillions of mirrors into space to slow global warming. It doesn't seem like a bad idea at a first glance, but other enlightened thoughts say we should release chemicals into the air to do just that.

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