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Geoengineering as Planetary Emergency Response?

The Intersection
By Chris Mooney
Jan 15, 2008 1:50 AMNov 5, 2019 10:21 AM

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Watch this (unfortunately, not embeddable). The equation seems hard to refute:

Worse and worse news from climate system + ongoing political inertia = more and more serious consideration of geoengineering schemes

I don't think there's anything wrong with my math here--unfortunately.

P.S.: Speaking of bad news from the climate system...um, here comes the Antarctic ice sheet bearing the latest tidings of woe.

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