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Some Climate Engineering Ideas Are Insane. This One Isnt

2015-02-26 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Slate: According to technological optimists, in the next two or three decades, humanity will embark on a new era of possibility. Super-smart computers and other advances may even make certain types of less risky, large-scale climate actions a reality. Open any number of sci-fi books from the last few decades and you have an idea of how nanotechnology could make planetary-scale engineering possible. (Kim Stanley Robinson's work comes immediately to mind.) Maybe swarms of self-replicating photosynthetic nanobots...

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Yep, Climate Change Is Still Causing Insane Storms

2015-01-26 17:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Forecasters are projecting "crippling snowfall amounts and life-threatening blizzard conditions" throughout the Northeast. They may as well toss in a 100 percent likelihood of jokes from American conservative media about how snow invalidates the idea of global warming. Cue headlines, such as these early hits from the Drudge Report, about the "Snowiest decade on record," with a link to the conservative website Climate Depot. Or this FLASHBACK NYT: The end of snow? headline, which points with...

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