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Engineering our climate : In the News
EU spending spree brings carbon capture closer to reality
- Source: The Guardian
28th January 2009
Europe-wide plan proposes €1.25bn for carbon capture at coal-fired power plants; €1.75bn earmarked for better international energy links
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Farms to take heat out of warming
- Source: BBC News
- 15th January 2009
Farmers could help curb rising global temperatures by selecting crop varieties that reflect solar energy back into space, researchers say.
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Royal Society to research potential of geoengineering to limit global warming
- Source: The Guardian
- 28th October 2008
The Royal Society has announced plans today to study which planetary-scale geoengineering techniques might play a practical role in stemming the worst impacts of climate change.
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Necessity’s inventions
- Source: The Guardian
- 5th September 2008
The infant science of geo-engineering – one that so many would gladly see strangled in its cradle – could grow into the best job creation scheme for universities ever invented.
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Scientists issue warning that technology to beat global warming may backfire
- Source: The Times
- 1st September 2008
Engineering solutions to modify the Earth's environment and climate may be necessary if humanity is to adapt to global warming, a group of influential scientists will say today. =
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VIDEO: Geoengineering inquiry Jan 2010 - House of Commons
- Source: Parliament UK
The Science and Technology Committee takes evidence as part of its inquiry into the regulation of geoengineering.
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Audio: Geoengineering the Climate
- Source: BBC Radio 4
Mark Whitaker reports from Britain and the USA on the science of geoengineering and the political questions it raises.
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Beijing blanketed by snow after China seeds clouds to beat drought
Heavy snowfalls over Beijing have been induced by blasting chemicals into clouds over northern China to try to mitigate the most severe drought to grip northern China in nearly half a century.
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