Guaridan: News that Russia is calling for geoengineering be considered by the IPCC as a possible response to global warming makes a perverse kind of sense.
No government, not even those of Canada and Australia, has been more eager to open up new sources of fossil energy than Russia's. By offsetting the effects of global warming -- by, for example, coating the Earth with a layer of sulphate particles to reduce the amount of sunlight -- geoengineering promises to allow the world to have its carbon cake and...