Geoengineering

MORE FALSE SOLUTIONS! OH MY!

Geoengineering: Plan B for when Copenhagen fails? eek! 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Just Freakin' Read It

Why the ‘SuperFreakonomics’ global-warming chapter is worth your time 12
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago There's plenty to jeer about in Superfreakonomics' treatment of global warming, but two ideas presented by the authors deserve greater discussion in the world of climate wonkery.
“Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ‘Now that I’ve got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat.’ It’s crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system.”

Caldeira on Yale e360 0
Posted 1 month ago
“Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! … The point of the chapter in SuperFreakonomics is that geoengineering might be good insurance in case we don’t get global warming under control.” Did he even read the book?

Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on Superfreakonomics 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
If the grass looks greener, it’s important to understand the nature of the fence 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago One of the things about politics is that solutions always seem easier to implement and more promising before they stand a real chance of being implemented.
Why Branson and SuperFreakonomics are wrong, in pictures 33
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Sir Richard Branson believes that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would create a more sustainable society. The authors of SuperFreakonomics agree. But these pictures tell a very different story.
‘SuperFreakonomics’ will misinform readers on climate science 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The forthcoming SuperFreakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, plays fast and loose with the scientific consensus on climate change.
‘SuperFreakonomics’ is ‘patent nonsense’ 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago The new book by the authors of the bestseller Freakonomics spreads misinformation about climate change, solar cells, and geoengineering. Here's the real story.
COOL(ING) TECHNOLOGY

Geoengineering schemes shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, scientists say 9
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sci-fi proposals to cool the planet are laden with risk but may be Earth's only hope if politicians fail to tackle global warming, scientists said on Tuesday in their biggest evaluation to date of "geoengineering" concepts.
Tell it like it is

The fallacy of climate activism 100
Posted 3 months ago
Climate activists are obsessed with greenhouse-gas emissions and concentrations. This is a mistake. The problem runs much deeper -- and as long as we fail to tell the public the truth, we're never going to get anywhere.
Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental ‘heresies’ 2
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Give this Gaia break

Gaia proponent Lovelock says it’s time to adapt to inevitable global heating 6
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
What is it with Preeminent Thinkers and intensely bleak public lectures? On Monday night in Seattle, British scientist James Lovelock gave an prediction of the effects of climate change that was even more dire. Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are just fine, he said. They just won't amount to much.
Lots of great green stuff in the latest issue of The Atlantic 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I haven't read The Atlantic much lately, but I picked up the latest issue at the airport and it is superb. Three pieces are worth particular note.
Myth: Tackling climate change requires fundamental technological breakthroughs 4
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
The American people are deeply attached to the notion that any problem can be solved with a new doohickey. It would, after all, relieve them of the terrible responsibility of saving the world.
What could go wrong?

DARPA to investigate geoengineering 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh, great, DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the Defense Dept -- is convening a meeting to look into geoengineering.
Ocean dead zones to expand, ‘remain for thousands of years’ 14
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
Geoengineering is risky but likely inevitable, so we better start thinking it through 10
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Desperate enough to contemplate geo-engineering 22
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Science: Geo-engineering scheme damages the ozone layer 6
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
It's Only Biological

Ocean seeding banned at U.N. biodiversity conference 4
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago