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Engineering climate: from pariah to saviour?
2015-12-12 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Once dismissed as dangerous science fiction, schemes to stave off global warming by re-engineering Earth's climate may well gain in traction as a result of the Paris agreement. The landmark climate deal reached in Paris on Saturday poses a dilemma. It sets ambitious targets for capping global warming yet Earth's economy remains hugely dependent on carbon-spewing fossil fuels. So, if temperatures rise and countries fail to switch to cleaner energy in time, the allure of high-tech fixes will,...
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Engineering firm sees climate change opportunity in cities
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Dutch engineering company that is helping New York and New Orleans defend themselves against big storms and rising seas says climate change will be a source of business for decades regardless of the outcome of current climate talks in Paris. Arcadis, which doubled sales from 1 billion euros($1.08 billion) to 2 billion in 2007-2014 as it invested heavily in water management, says its future focus will be on 13 of the world's major urban centers threatened either by too much water or too little....
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Climate engineering may save coral reefs, study shows
2015-05-25 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: Current coral bleaching in Fiji. Credit: Professor Peter J Mumby, University of Queensland Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research. Co…
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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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Risks of climate engineering weighed last-ditch answer
2015-02-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: It could be the plot of a science-fiction thriller: fertilize the ocean with iron to suck up coral-killing carbon dioxide or seed the skies with tiny droplets to block the suns rays. In a report released Tuesday, a National Academy of Sciences panel found little evidence that researchers can deploy technologies to safely counteract global warming any time soon. Still, the academy concluded that the U.S. needs to start funding research in a bid to understand the technical and environmental hurdles...
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