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Climate change cover-up? You better believe it
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Was Sen. James Inhofe right when he declared 2009 the year of the climate contrarian? A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists—including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations [...]
“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 [...]
Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?
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A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture–and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences
The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads. Although, historically, such [...]
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