Tag: geo-engineering

Rightfully, we regard the concept of geo-engineering with considerable trepidation. Proposals to use technology to address climate change come in various forms, the two most popular of which are increasing the albedo (reflectiveness) of the Earth, and enabling the oceans …

Geo-Engineering: Frightening But Perhaps Essential Fairly Soon Read More »

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When a climate change skeptic wrote: Climate models have crucial flaws making them useless, I wrote, “This idea lives on the outer banks of the remotest fringe of science.” At the end of his explanation, he cautions me in response: It’s very …

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My colleague Jim Boyden (PhD, physics, Cal Tech, 1960) was kind enough to brief me on the highlights of the meeting of the American Physical Society at the University of California at Berkeley last weekend. The core of the meeting, …

American Physical Society Discusses Climate Change and its Mitigation Read More »

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By no means am I able to keep up on every idea within the realm of geo-engineering, i.e., taking active steps at a planetary level to counteract global warming.  Here’s one that we hear about often, that apparently isn’t practical: “fertilizing” the …

Geo-engineering — The Grand-Daddy of All Decisions Read More »

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