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It's time to take solar geoengineering seriously, even though it seems outlandish
2016-09-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Solar geoengineering is nuts. That, at least, is the reaction of many who hear about it for the first time. And how can it not be? Serious scientists are talking about deliberately trying to reflect a small fraction of sunlight back to space in order to cool planet Earth. But calling it nuts is beside the point. The real question is: nuts compared to what? Isn't it insane to be pumping billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere year after year, hoping it will be fine in the end?...
Headwave and GeoScale team on geoengineering workflows
2016-03-10 12:06:42| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Alliance addresses co-visualization and analysis of cross domain reservoir datasets.
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Oliver Morton on the 'abiding romance' of geoengineering
2016-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In Paris last year, nations agreed on a new climate change accord to limit warming in 2100 to below 2 degrees Celsius. But it will be difficult to achieve that target without either rapidly weaning the world off fossil fuels, beginning immediately, or developing technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere after 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Both options seem out of reach at the moment. But there might be a third way forward: geoengineering....
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An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering
2015-12-05 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: It's the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about. What if they fail to curb global warming and the environment gets so dangerous that someone decides to do something drastic and play mad scientist? Should nations purposely pollute the planet to try to counteract man-made warming and cool the world? Scientists are pretty sure they can do it, but should they? The issue is called geoengineering -- purposely tinkering with the planet as opposed to the unintentional warming that's...
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Can Geoengineering Tame Devastating Hurricanes?
2015-11-06 17:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Scientists think they know, in principle, how to tame hurricanes and reduce storm surge risks. All it would take would be a stratosphere full of sulphate aerosols sufficient to dim the sun, lower tropic ocean temperatures and reduce the hazard of the kind of windstorm that hit New York in 2012 and New Orleans in 2005 with devastating consequences. Hurricanes are likely to impose increasing costs as the planets climate changes. However, there is a little more to the solution than a simple darkening...
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