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"Hack the planet to counter climate change," says Lord Rees
2013-09-12 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal, claims that launching mirrors into space, triggering algal blooms in the oceans and seeding clouds are just some of "Plan B" schemes which will have to be considered by world leaders unless carbon emissions can be cut in the next 20 years. He is due to tell the British Scientist Festival in Newcastle that although it is an "utter political nightmare' because "not all nations would want to adjust the thermostat the same way ", hacking the planet through geoengineering...
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'Hack the planet to counter climate change,' says Lord Rees
2013-09-12 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal, claims that launching mirrors into space, triggering algal blooms in the oceans and seeding clouds are just some of "Plan B" schemes which will have to be considered by world leaders unless carbon emissions can be cut in the next 20 years. He is due to tell the British Scientist Festival in Newcastle that although it is an "utter political nightmare' because "not all nations would want to adjust the thermostat the same way ", hacking the planet through geoengineering...
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Scientists studying solar radiation management as a way to cool planet
2013-09-08 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, blasted enough fine particles and sulfur dioxide gas into the atmosphere to envelop the Earth in a high-altitude cloud for the better part of two months. When scientists checked in 1992, they determined that the cloud had deflected enough sunlight to cool the planet by about 1 degree. Now, with the planet warming inexorably and the threat of long-term climate change looming, some experts are wondering whether the time may have...
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The south pole of Mars shows that the Red Planet isnt always dull, dusty, and barren
2013-09-06 15:58:01| Extremetech
What you see here is an image of Mars' south pole, captured by the European Space Agency's Mars Express Orbiter. It is distinctly different from the dusty, barren, not-attractive landscapes that we usually associate with the Red Planet, but it's still most definitely Mars.
Pests shift poleward as planet warms
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a study showed on Sunday. The spread of beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, funghi and other pests in a warming world may be quicker than for many types of wild animals and plants, perhaps because people are accidentally moving them with harvests, it said. Scientists based in Britain studied more than 600 types...
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