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Engineering our climate : In the News
Royal Society launches geoengineering initiative
- Source: TheEngineer.co.uk
19th March 2010
A new initiative to ensure strict governance of any plans for solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering will be undertaken this year by the Royal Society, in partnership with TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
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Audio: Geo-engineering ‘untenable’
- Source: BBC Radio 4
- 18th March 2010
Can geo-engineering save the world from global warming? The Commons Science and Technology Committee is set to publish its review on the use of the technique to manipulate the earth's climate system to combat rising temperatures.
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Geo-engineering: the planet’s savior or untested danger?
- Source: The Independent
- 28th February 2010
But where some researchers are forging ahead with the new science of tinkering with the atmosphere to change the climate, many others are warning that geo-engineering is untested, potentially dangerous and distracting the world from reducing greenhouse gases.
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Climate scientists convene global geo-engineering summit
- Source: The Guardian
- 13th January 2010
Meeting in California in March will discuss possible field trials of schemes that would tackle climate change by reflecting sunlight or fertilising the ocean with iron
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Tackling climate change with technology
- Source: BBC News
- 17th November 2009
Scientists have been looking for ways of modifying the Earth's environment to control global warming - it's known as geo-engineering.
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Britain’s renewable energy targets are ‘physically impossible’, says study
- Source: The Guardian
- 12th November 2009
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 'battle plan' for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear power. In a new study, they called for the government to adopt a "war-time" mentality in their approach to dealing with climate change and consider experimental approaches such as artificial trees that soak up carbon dioxide to buy the time needed to build the required level of low-carbon infrastructure in the UK.
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Can we manipulate the weather?
- Source: The Guardian
- 4th November 2009
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?
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Scientists bring snow to Beijing
- Source: BBC News
- 2nd November 2009
Chinese meteorologists have brought about Beijing's earliest snowfall in a decade, after seeding rain clouds with silver iodide to ease a drought.
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