Serious consideration is being given to the mad proposition of
engineering the biosphere as a solution to climate change [
ark]. Technological pseudo-scientific proposals for humans to engineer atmospheric processes are dubbed
"geoengineering" [search] and generally seek to either reflect solar radiation or absorb greenhouse gases. They include such shortsighted, ill-conceived and risky ideas as mass release of aerosols into the atmosphere, fertilizing oceans with iron, and others, including my personal favorite, stationing mirrors above the Earth. Given the...
It is reported
President Bush is closing off some of President-Elect Obama's immediate climate policy alternatives [
ark] with last minute "midnight" environmental regulations. These include barring the Environmental Protection Agency from considering the effects of
climate change on protected species [search], and forbidding the EPA to
regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act [search]. These are avenues Obama could have used immediately to begin regulating carbon dioxide (and still can but will take longer to undo Bush's...
After much work raising funds for Ecological Internet's vital work on behalf of global ecology, I am both pleased to report we have raised $51,000 from 224 Earth lovers, or 68% of our goal, and saddened to let you know we have fallen some $24,000 short of what is required to continue as we have. Please
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A major new report by the
U.S. Climate Change Science Program and carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey, cryptically entitled
Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.5: Abrupt Climate Change, finds that
future climatic shifts have been underestimated [
ark], and warns of relatively low probability but debilitating
"abrupt" shift in climate [search] that would be devastating. The new report builds upon earlier IPCC findings, and notes that better information means predictions continue to improve. For the United States...
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