In Harvard's alumni magazine, a profile of an energetic young professor, David Keith, who argues thoughtfully for researching geoengineering solutions to global warming. As skeptics continue to question whether global warming is real, and worldwide efforts to cut greenhouse gases stall, a small but growing number of scientists believe that humans may need to considerContinue reading “Plan B for the climate: Time to research the idea?”
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Geo-Engineering: The Ecologist Doesn’t Like It
According to The Ecologist, the technological fixes for global warming are untested, dangerous, expensive, and probably ineffective. (See the chart below.) This may all be true, but as more than one scientist pointed out at this year's American Geophysical Union conference, if the news about global warming is as bad as some fear, we reallyContinue reading “Geo-Engineering: The Ecologist Doesn’t Like It”