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Scientist raises concerns hostile geoengineering
2015-02-16 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Senior US climate scientist Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, has expressed concern the geoengineering, manipulating the climate, could be used as a weapon in the future. Geoengineering involves manipulating the climate in order to reduce the negative effect of climate change. Scientists believe there are a number of ways this can be achieved but have warned it could have unintended and unpredictable consequences. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association...
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Geoengineering won't solve climate change
2015-02-16 01:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Efforts to reduce emissions of climate-disrupting greenhouse gases are moving at a pace that is, well, glacial. Human activity continues to spew tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. And even though a bone-chilling cold snap has the eastern U.S. shivering this week, the globe as a whole continues to warm at a scary pace. So it's not surprising that some scientists, economists and politicians have begun to discuss a Plan B. Variously known as solar geoengineering,...
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Scientists seek international authority on climate geoengineering
2015-02-15 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence-France Presse: US scientists and legal experts are calling for a strong, international authority to regulate any man-made interventions meant to combat global warming, amid fears that the technology could be harmful to the environment. The field known as geoengineering is not currently regulated by any institution or treaty, Edward Parson, professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles, explained Saturday. "If some nations decide this year to embark on a crude untested experimental...
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Scientists call 'geoengineering' tests find ways cool the planet
2015-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury: Scientists are so concerned about global warming that they're now calling for tests to find ways to cool the planet -- the first step toward exploration of a highly controversial field that sounds like science fiction. "Geoengineering," which is aimed at changing the climate by blocking the sun's powerful rays, may be necessary if society can't agree on how to stop carbon emissions that are heating up Earth, a panel of experts said Saturday in San Jose at the meeting of the American Association...
Geoengineering should not be used as a climate fix yet, says US science academy
2015-02-10 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change has advanced so rapidly that the time has come to look at options for a planetary-scale intervention, the National Academy of Science said on Tuesday. But it was categorical that such geoengineering should not currently be deployed at scale or considered as an alternative to cutting emissions now. The much-anticipated report from the countrys top scientists strongly endorsed the idea of further research into a topic it admitted had once been taboo: proposed high-tech fixes for...
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