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Technology Review: Does Anyone Understand Geo-Engineering?On more than one occasion in recent weeks, President Obama's science advisor, John Holdren, has said that he supports research into geo-engineering, a controversial approach to addressing climate change that would involve large-scale engineering projects designed to cool the earth in the event ...
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Atmospheric engineering scheme to combat global warming could diminish solar powerApril 20th, 2009 — A widely discussed "atmospheric engineering" scheme intended to combat global warming could have unanticipated consequences in reducing the effectiveness of certain kinds of solar power around the Earth, a new study has concluded. It is appears in the current issue of ACS' ...
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Geo-engineering And BiocharThe Green Party recently voted to resist proposals for large scale use of charcoal in soils for climate change mitigation, and against their inclusion into carbon markets. Biochar, along with agrofuels, would result in devastating expansion of industrial agriculture which threatens people, ...
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Obama looking at cooling air to fight warmingObama looking at cooling air to fight warming John Holdren talks about his role as President Obama's science adviser during an interview with The Associated Press, in Washington, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP) -- Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway ...
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Biochar for carbon storage comes under fire | Green Tech - CNET NewsBiochar for carbon storage comes under fire A new idea for storing carbon dioxide underground using charcoal, or biochar, is being panned by organizations that oppose large-scale geoengineering projects. The ETC Group on Monday published opposition to biochar from 147 small environmental ...
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Hungry shrimp eat climate change experiment - environment - 25 March 2009 - New ScientistIt is another nail in the coffin of using ocean fertilisation to cool the planet. Early results from the latest field experiment suggest the technique will fail. "I think we are seeing the last gasps of ocean iron fertilisation as a carbon storage strategy," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie ...
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The Geoengineering Option | Foreign AffairsGlobal warming is accelerating, and although engineering the climate strikes most people as a bad idea, it is time to take it seriously. DAVID G. VICTOR is a Professor at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at ...
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DARPA to Explore GeoengineeringMarch 14, 2009 ( ScienceInsider) An official advisory group to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is convening an unclassified meeting next week to discuss geoengineering, Science Insider has learned. DARPA is the latest in a number of official science funding agencies or top ...
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DARPA Invented the Internet, Now It Will Stop Global Warming : CleanTechnicaIf you don’t know what DARPA is, you will soon. The Defense Advanced Research Group invented the internet back in 1969, and now it has set its sights on geoengineering a cure for global warming. What does that mean? For one thing, it means that a communications network originally designed for ...
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Bellona Foundation releases Interactive Tool to Understand Carbon Capture and StorageEnvironmental and Energy advocacy group Bellona has released an interactive tool for understanding geo-engineering based CO capture and storage (CCS) technology designed to reduce power plant based emissions. The tool describes the engineering solutions for carbon capture, as well as point ...
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