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Scientists Propose Engineering The Atmosphere To Cool Planet

Mother Nature Network | Katherine Butler | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Technology, Green News

Love the blue skies that greet you on a sunny day? Don't get too used to it. Scientists have proposed a last-resort solution to climate change. It inv...

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Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Eric Pooley, Superfreakonomics, Geoengineering, Union of Concerned Scientists, Carbon Emissions, Joe Romm, Steven Levitt, Robert Kennedy Jr, Climate Change, Stephen Dubner, Paul Krugman, Green News
Andrew Winston

The authors of SuperFreakonomics fail to mention that the process of shifting to a low-carbon economy has enormous upsides completely aside from the benefits to climate balance.

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Even If They're Right, the Superfreakonomics Guys Only Have Half an Answer

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Energy, Superfreakonomics, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Green News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

Even if geoengineering works magnificently to cool down the Earth (and right now, that's definitely an "if"), it won't meet growing energy demand from countries like India and China.

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Environmental Warfare in 10 years

Diane Francis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Geostrategy, Australia, Migration, Geoengineering, Latin America, Environmental Refugees, Environment, Green, Geopolitics, Mexico, Spain, Degradation, Greece, Green News
Diane Francis

Oil company CEOs and Canadian, U.S. and British government officials attending the Global Business Forum in Banff last week heard a chilling forecast of military clashes if there is an environmental meltdown due to climate change.

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New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Global Energy Assessment Council, Copenhagen 2009, Africa, President Emanuel Mori, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Grace Akumu, Royal Dutch Shell, Tallberg Forum, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ged Davis, Dr. Strangelove, Scenario Planning, Our Common Future, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Mario Tokoro, Tallberg Foundation, Kenya, Chief Oren Lyons, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.

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Green News Report - September 3, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Accce, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Clean Coal, Wind Energy, Green News Report, China, Project Kaisei, Geoengineering, California Wildfires, Climate Change, Green News, Duke Energy, Mercury, Wolves, Endangered Species, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Green Business, Overfishing, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: California burning; Killing wolves; Recycling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... PLUS: A Fracture in the Clean Coal Coalit...

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Geoengineering: Two Worlds for the Price of One

Giles Slade | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Geoengineering, Solidarity With Future Generations, Mars Mission, The Atlantic, Green News
Giles Slade

Are we going to play God again in areas where we should tread very lightly?

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Can White Paint, Reflective Windows and Closed Doors Save the Planet?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Whitewash, Cooling, Geoengineering, Ac, Green News, Cars, Climate Change, Global Warming, New York City, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

NYC utilities provider Con Edison estimates that if 1,000 businesses keep their doors open, they are wasting 4,600 barrels of oil and releasing 2,200 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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The Last Green Taboo: Should We Try To "Engineer" Our Climate?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Geoengineering, Climate, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Engineeing, Climate Change, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News
Johann Hari

'Geo-engineering' is a Messianic movement to save the world from global warming, through dust and iron and thousands of tiny mirrors in space. It is also the last green taboo.

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Geoengineering: Mankind and Reshaping the World

Doug Struck | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Holdren, Crutzen, John Holdren, Green News
Doug Struck

If he were a bear, John Holdren would be reaching into a bee's nest. The president's science advisor seems undeterred about stirring up an angry environmental buzz.

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Geoengineering: Time to Get Serious?

Marc Gunther | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Albedo, Geoengineering, Foreign Affairs, David Victor, Green News
Marc Gunther

Imagine trillions of tiny mirrors, sent into orbit, to reflect the sun's rays. Or artificial trees that suck a ton of carbon a day out of the atmosphere. These aren't crazy schemes.

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Goodbye, Global Warming. Hello, Salty Clouds and Glaciers-in-a-Blanket

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Geoengineering, Climate Change, Global Warming, Glaciers, Global Warming Protest, Powershift, Green News
Graham Hill

Global warming, as a phrase, has become a cliché that has lost its usefulness.

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Climate Scientists: CO2 Cuts Aren't Working, It's Time For 'Plan B'

The Independent | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Geoengineering, Climate Scientists Plan B, Algal Blooms, Global Warming, Global Warming Technology, CO2 Cuts Not Working, Green News

An emergency "Plan B" using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists...

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Climate In The Obama Age: An Interview With Andy Revkin

Treehugger | Jacob Gordon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Population Growth, Geoengineering, President Obama, Climate Taxes, Climate Change, The New York Times, Environment, Co2, President-Elect Obama, Green Policy, Green News

Hopes are high for an Obama-led climate strategy, but when it comes to true details there are still more questions than answers. Andrew C. Revkin has...

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Change. Obama Can Change the Path of Climate Change

A. Siegel | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Ammonia, Geoengineering, White Roofing, Agrichar, Climate Change, Biochar, Terra Preta, Global Warming, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Green News
A. Siegel

Do Obama and his building team recognize the extent of change to the planet? And, that there might exist geoengineering solutions as part of the path toward necessary change?

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Geoengineering of Climate Change

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Stratospheric Sulfate, Geoengineering, The Blue Revolution, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Global Climate Mitigation, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

How can you quickly reverse global warming? It has been hypothesized that reducing sunlight by only 1% should eliminate this problem, though some of the propositions to do so have been certifiably insane.

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