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“Albedo Yachts” and Marine Clouds: A Cure for Climate Change?
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Here’s an idea to cool Earth: make marine clouds into better reflectors of sunlight. After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun’s radiation back into space than the amount trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide. So why not make them even more effective?
Enter “marine cloud brightening,” a geoengineering scheme that would [...]
Cassandras of Climate
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PAUL KRUGMAN
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.
And here’s the thing: I’m [...]
‘Artificial trees’ to cut carbon
Engineers say a forest of 100,000 “artificial trees” could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world’s carbon emissions.
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