Showing posts with label geo-engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geo-engineering. Show all posts

Reflecting sun's rays would cause crops to fail, scientists warn

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Research shows geoengineering method intended to combat climate change would have adverse effect on agriculture Fiona Harvey The Guardian ...

India’s grand plan to create world’s longest river set to go

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TV Padma New Scientist 28 Nov 16; Engineering projects don’t come any bigger than this. If India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, gets hi...

Geo-engineering unlikely to work, conservation group says

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Attempts to limit climate change by using the novel technologies known as geo-engineering are very unlikely to work, leading biologists say....

Sucking CO2 from the Air Would Not Halt Effects of Global Warming

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Sans reduced emissions, using extreme geoengineering to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide would not protect the oceans, models show Maria T...

As El Nino looms, cloud seeding gets tailwind

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COLIN PACKHAM Reuters 7 Jul 15; Circling thousands of feet above Tasmania's farmland in a light aircraft, Christina Nebel prepares to...

Warning over aerosol climate fix

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Simon Redfern BBC 16 Apr 15; Any attempts to engineer the climate are likely to result in "different" climate change, rather th...

'Climate intervention' strategies unlikely to work

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AFP Yahoo News 11 Feb 15; Miami (AFP) - Attempts to curb climate change by capturing carbon underground or geo-engineering to help the Ea...

Scientists urge global 'wake-up call' to deal with climate change

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Climate change has advanced so rapidly that work must start on unproven technologies now, admits US National Academy of Science Suzanne Gol...

Geo-engineering: Climate fixes 'could harm billions'

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David Shukman BBC News 25 Nov 14; Schemes to tackle climate change could prove disastrous for billions of people, but might be required f...

Geoengineering Ineffective Against Climate Change, Could Make Worse

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Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Yahoo News 25 Feb 14; Current schemes to minimize the havoc caused by global warming by purposefully manipu...

Geoengineering could bring severe drought to the tropics, research shows

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Study models impact on global rainfall when artificial volcanic eruptions are created in a bid to reverse climate change Damian Carrington ...

Earth-cooling schemes need global sign-off, researchers say

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World's most vulnerable people need protection from huge and unintended impacts of radical geoengineering projects Ian Sample The Guard...

Is cloud seeding preventing further flooding in Indonesia?

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Scientists claim rainfall has reduced since the project began, but experts call for more evidence Dyna Rochmyaningsih guardian.co.uk 19 Fe...

Rogue geoengineering could 'hijack' world's climate

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Techniques aimed at averting global warming could lead to an unpredictable international crisis, a report has warned John Vidal guardian.co...

Geo-engineering wins scant enthusiasm at U.N. climate talks

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Alister Doyle PlanetArk 3 Dec 12; Cheap, short-cut ideas to cool the planet such as shading sunlight are failing to win support from U.N....

'Ocean fertilisation' experiment stores CO2

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Richard Ingham (AFP) Google News 19 Jul 12; PARIS — German researchers on Wednesday said they had evidence that sowing the ocean with iro...

Geoengineering Could Backfire, Make Climate Change Worse

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Joel Winston Wired UK 16 Jul 12; Deploying giant space mirrors and spraying particles from stadium-sized balloons may sound like an engin...

Scientists Warn Geoengineering May Disrupt Rainfall

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Chris Wickham PlanetArk 7 Jun 12; Large-scale engineering projects aimed at fighting global warming could radically reduce rainfall in Eu...

Climate-Cooling Trial Balloon Gets Canceled

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LiveScience.com Yahoo News 19 May 12; One of the first trials of geoengineering Earth's climate would have launched a balloon with a ...

Rio+20 talks 'too focused on techno fixes', UN hears

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Aisling Irwin SciDev 27 Apr 12; The conviction that new technologies will solve the world's environmental and social problems has ove...