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Naomi Klein: ‘We tried it your way and we don’t have another decade to waste’

14 Sep 2014: Suzanne Goldenberg: The climate-change movement is making little headway against corporate vested interests, says the author of Shock Doctrine. But how does she think her new book, This Changes Everything, will help galvanise people?
Geoengineering the Earth's climate sends policy debate down a curious rabbit hole

4 Aug 2014: Graham Readfearn: Many of the world’s major scientific establishments are discussing the concept of modifying the Earth’s climate to offset global warming
Failure to deal with ethics will make climate engineering ‘unviable’

31 Jul 2014: Environmental philosopher warns major ethical, political, legal and social issues around geoengineering must be addressed
Lancashire's shale gas can fill UK energy gap

4 Jun 2014: Letters: As geoscientists and petroleum engineers from Britain's leading academic institutions, we call on politicians to put aside their differences and focus on the benefits of developing natural gas from Lancashire's shale
Leaked IPCC climate plan to worsen global warming - ecologists

7 Apr 2014:
Nafeez Ahmed: Critics say bioenergy, carbon capture, among draft report's 'false solutions' to sustain business as usual economics
IPCC report proposes sucking carbon out of the air as climate fix

7 Apr 2014:
Technique of burning biomass then pumping released carbon underground included in leaked draft from UN climate panel
Geoengineering side effects could be potentially disastrous, research shows

25 Feb 2014: Comparison of five proposed methods shows they are ineffective, alter weather systems or could not be safely stopped
Al Gore says use of geo-engineering to head off climate disaster is insane

15 Jan 2014:
Belief in an instant planet-wide quick-fix, such as blocking sunlight with sulphur, is delusional, US activist declares
Geoengineering could bring severe drought to the tropics, research shows

8 Jan 2014: Study models impact on global rainfall when artificial volcanic eruptions are created in a bid to reverse climate change
Climate science: can geoengineering save the world?

Guardian Professional, 29 Nov 2013:
Climate professors Mike Hulme and David Keith go head to head over whether climate engineering could provide a solution to climate change
Why we'd be mad to rule out climate engineering

8 Oct 2013:
Matthew Watson: If climate change continues then all options to lessen its impact, including geoengineering, must be considered as a last resort
IPCC climate report: the digested read

27 Sep 2013:
The fifth assessment report from the IPCC looks at everything from oceans and sea ice to carbon budgets and geoengineering
Why has geoengineering been legitimised by the IPCC?

27 Sep 2013:
This morning's publication of the IPCC's summary for policymakers tells a familiar and gloomy story of the science of climate change. The big surprise is the decision to mention the controversial idea of geoengineering
Why geoengineering suits Russia's carbon agenda

24 Sep 2013: News that Russia is calling for geoengineering be considered by the IPCC as a possible response to global warming makes a perverse kind of sense
Russia urges UN climate report to include geoengineering

19 Sep 2013:
The Russian government is asking for 'planet hacking' to be included in the climate science report, leaked documents show