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• Not Reading

  
  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog — Authority: 106
  The New Yorker attacks Levitt and Dubner’s geo-engineering: Though climate change is a grave problem, Levitt and Dubner treat it mainly as an opportunity to show how clever they are. So the problem is “grave,” but if you provide a solution, that’s just you trying to make yourself look clever?  Doesn’t ...
  6 hours ago

• Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change?

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with treesDavid Adam, guardian.co.uk 4 Nov 09;Some talk of hoisting mirrors into space to reflect sunlight, while others want to cloud the high atmosphere with millions of tonnes of shiny sulphur ...
  4 days ago

• Can we manipulate the weather?

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried?David Adam, The Guardian 4 Nov 09;The unseasonal snow that fell on Beijing for 11 hours on Sunday was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also, ...
  5 days ago

• Geo-Engineering

  
  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog — Authority: 106
  So, 2009 is the year of Geo-engineering . All the debate aside, I think it is an absolute certainty that something like this will be tried at some point.  Even though we are becoming, as a species, more efficient, it isn’t fast enough to negate the effects that have already been charted out by the IPCC.  So we ...
  5 days ago

• Can we manipulate the weather?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried? The unseasonal snow that fell on Beijing for 11 hours on Sunday was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also, China claims, man-made. By ...
  6 days ago

• Five extreme ways to beat climate change

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  From virtual volcanos to space mirrors, science is exploring new ways to fend off global warming Stratospheric aerosols Mimics the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption by spraying shiny sulphur compounds into the high atmosphere. Relatively cheap and easy to do, though it would require non-stop effort as the ...
  6 days ago

• Whitewash could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Yahoo News 4 Nov 09;LIMA (AFP) – A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.Eduardo Gold, president of non-governmental organization Glaciers of Peru, made the ...
  6 days ago

• The Freakonomics solution to finding yourself in a hole

  
  The Way Things Break — Authority: 542
  Or: Levitt and Dubner Keep Digging, Part One You’d think that the authors of a pop-econ best seller would be familiar with the sunk cost effect. You’d be wrong . Criticism of Levitt and Dubner’s (L&D from here on) atrocious chapter on climate has been swift and remarkably in-depth . L&D have been ...
  1 week ago

• Wrapping Greenland

  
  NextNature.net - Exploring the Nature caused by People. — Authority: 128
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkInvpuoUsw&rel=0 The Discovery series ‘Ways to save the planet’ the episode ‘Wrapping Greenland ‘ shows how Dr. Jason Box uses reflective blankets to cover glaciers in Greenland. Due to global warming glaciers start melting causing land to flood. Dr. Jason Box argues ...
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• "Hose-to-the-Sky:" Still Spewing SO2 Idea to Stop Global Warming?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Hosed by this theory or greenwashed? Photo by Tony Stl via Flickr On ABCs 20/20 last Friday, Nathan Myhrvold , Microsofts former chief technology officer, and founder/CEO of Intellectual Ventures (IV), resurrected the idea of stretching a 2-inch hose up 100,000 feet (15 kilometers) into the stratosphere and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deep freeze arks to save coral reefs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Researchers fear coral reefs wont survive next 50 years, so cryogenic plans are laid to rebuild them Scientists are preparing plans to store coral in cryogenic vaults, so that the worlds vanishing reefs can be rebuilt once the climate is stabilised. Researchers consider there is now little chance that coral reefs ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Albedo Yachts" and Marine Clouds: A Cure for Climate Change?

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  A deep dive into one of the least scary geoengineering schemes to control global warmingChristopher Mims, Scientific American 21 Oct 09;Heres an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the suns radiation back into space than the amount ...
  2 weeks ago

• A sticking plaster for the planet

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  However impressive someone is, however many excellent and entertaining books they might have sold, never believe anyone who tells you there might be a quick fix to global warming. Its hard to deny that Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of Chicago, and the journalist Stephen Dubner know a thing or two ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are weekends really wetter?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Andrew Russell , a meteorologist at the University of Manchester, discusses weather forecasting, clouds and geo-engineering. Hes planning a project at the Manchester Science festival to see if it really does rain more at weekends. Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample joins us for the newsjam. We discuss ...
  3 weeks ago

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  NextNature.net - Exploring the Nature caused by People. — Authority: 128
  The Eco Pod is a new method to produce alternative energy, clean and renewable, which operates in old, abandoned buildings. Pending an eventual recovery, these buildings become vertical bioreactor that supports micro-algae which produce energy for the city. The idea comes from the American studios Höweler + Yoon ...
  3 weeks ago

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