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...
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...
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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...