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• Congress Contemplates Geoengineering Proposals

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 428
  A small group of highly-respected climate-change and Earth systems scientists testified before the U.S. House of Representatives today in a hearing titled the hearing titled “Geoengineering: Assessing the Implications of Large-Scale Climate Intervention,” which explored the current lack of geoengineering ...
  3 days ago

• March Geoengineering Confab Draws Praise, Criticism

  
  ScienceInsider — Authority: 665
  by Eli Kintisch Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. Styled after the landmark 1975...
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• Make sure geoengineering ’seatbelt’ works before strapping in

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 565
  How are geoengineering fixes for climate change like seatbelts in an automobile? According to top climate scientist Ken Caldeira, tinkering with the climate might help keep us safe, but we’d better be sure the geoengineering “seatbelt” actually works before we start driving . The top priority for dealing with ...
  3 days ago

• Geoengineering — A Magic Bullet Against Global Warming?

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  Dr. Ken Caldeira, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington provided a balanced look at the potential benefits and also the costs and possible harm that geoengineering techniques could offer in our quest to find a “Magic Bullet” to counter global warming. Can global warming be mitigated by a technological fix ...
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• One error retracted, 99 to go. Superfreaknomics authors will, in future editions, correct their claim that Caldeira believes “carbon dioxide is not the right villain”

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 712
  The outrage over — and debunkings of — the error-riddled book Superfreakonomics continue, even as coauthors Levitt and Dubner slowly concede their mistakes. Perhaps the most scathing takedown to date comes from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert , the Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences at the University ...
  4 days 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 ...
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• Missing the SuperFreaking Point (and Ignoring the Business Case for Green)

  
  Andrew Winston — Authority: 103
  Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitts SuperFreakonomics has certainly gotten a lot of people worked up in short order. The point of contention is a chapter about global warming which makes the case that Al Gore and others are too worried about the climate problem because the only way to solve it is to convince people to ...
  5 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, ...
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• Comment on Pielke Jr’s main conclusions

  
  My view on climate change — Authority: 108
  Roger Pielke Jr invites comments “from his loudest critics” on his views regarding climate change and response strategies. I’m not even close to being his loudest critic (e.g. he’s often got interesting analyses on the policy), allthough the occasional badmouthing of scientists gets on my nerve. Anyway, ...
  5 days ago

• Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails? eek!

  
  praxis makes perfect. — Authority: 99
  Some scary prospects of where people are turning – geoengineering, the false solution that once seemed like science fiction, is actually being taken seriously. Seriously? Diana Bronson, ETC Group We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein As global ...
  5 days ago

• The State of Geoengineering Research

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  As noted earlier , Congress today is holding its first-ever hearings on geoengineering as a potential means to fight global warming.
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• Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails?

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 600
  Diana Bronson, ETC Group We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein As global climate negotiations in Barcelona enter into the last week of talks before December’s Copenhagen summit, there continues to be more aggravation than agreement amongst ...
  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

• Geoengineering might help tackle climate change but do we really want every cloud to have a silver iodide lining?

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  At the moment geoengineering is not on the agenda for Copenhagan but one can see why scientists are arguing that we use it to tackle climate change writes Robert Colvile.
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• 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

• What Not To Name Your Geoengineering Project: Ice-Nine-One-One

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 747
  Thanks to the “ academic malpractice ” of SuperFreakonomics on the one hand and rising scientific concern that radical measures will have to be taken within decades to preserve human civilization on the other, talk about geoengineering to combat global warming is on the rise. One such project is Ice911 , an ...
  1 week ago

• SuperFreakonomics Redux: Even Congress is Riled Up

  
  Red, Green, and Blue — Authority: 415
  Last week I wrote in this space that when faced with a problem (global warming, carbon dioxide emissions) that so clearly requires huge top-down action from governments the world over, what two contrarians write in a book doesn’t exactly bother me that much. It bothers Joe Romm at Climate Progress, clearly, and ...
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• Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public” on climate science.

  
  Climate Progress — Authority: 712
  This is a repost from Wonk Room. Yesterday, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. During an investigative hearing on forged letters sent by the coal industry to oppose ...
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