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The Argument Against 'Climate Hacking'
Some people might argue that the greatest moral challenge of our time is serious enough to justify deliberately tampering with our climate to stave off the damaging effects of global warming....
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This radical atmospheric hack could cool our planet super fast
Sometimes, the solution to a complex problem is right in front of your nose: Clouds could be key to slowing down climate change. As the global climate passes troubling milestone after...
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There was a nutty German plot to drain the Mediterranean sea and merge Europe...
Sometimes the world seems normal and boring. Other times, not so much. Sometimes, you realize it's a place where mad sci—er, architects spend decades trying to implement kooky plans to drain the...
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'You terrify me': TED speakers duke it out over a plan to release massive...
At TED, a conference about big ideas that's largely attended by tech luminaries, it was inevitable that geoengineering — the idea of changing the earth's atmosphere to halt or reverse climate change —...
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A last-resort ‘planet-hacking’ plan could make Earth habitable for longer —...
One way to prevent the Earth's temperature from rising into a city-drowning, hurricane-strengthening, heat-stroke–triggering danger zone is to immediately switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy...
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There's a 95% chance the world will warm beyond a crucial tipping point —...
There's only a 5% chance that the world won't warm more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a new study. Two degrees is what's usually considered the threshold at which warming becomes...
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Harvard scientists are testing a 'sky-hacking' plan as a last-ditch way to...
The world is unlikely to hit the targets necessary to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming. Some think that as a last resort, we may need to do something to temporarily cool the planet by...
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China is attempting the largest artificial rain experiment in history, over...
China's 'Sky River' will be the largest artificial rain experiment in history, covering a land mass larger than Alaska and three times the size of Spain. Researchers plan to install thousands of...
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Volkswagen blasted unproven ‘hail cannons’ at the sky to prevent storms, and...
A VW plant in Mexico has caused controversy by blasting hail cannons at the sky in an attempt to stop hail from smashing their valuable car inventory. Farmers say the cannons are causing a drought...
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Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice...
If the glaciers holding back ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland were to collapse, the rate of sea-level rise around the globe could skyrocket. That would quickly render coastal cities, where...
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There's almost no chance humanity will act quickly enough to prevent...
We are running out of time to prevent catastrophic effects of climate change from reshaping our world. That's the message of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...
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10 of the biggest risks to humanity's survival in the next 50 years, from...
Some of the world's biggest challenges, including climate change and political violence, extend far beyond any one nation's borders. Global catastrophes can occur for a number of reasons, and the...
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Harvard scientists will soon send chemicals into the atmosphere to test...
It's unlikely that humans will stop Earth's temperature from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a rise that would lead to devastating climate change. To help cool the planet,...
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We’re altering the climate so severely that we’ll soon face apocalyptic...
Geoengineering is a term that refers to technology that can alter Earth's natural cycles to cool down the planet. It's being increasingly discussed as a potential way to address climate change....
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A rogue country could take planet-hacking into its own hands to alter the...
Geoengineering is the process of artificially altering Earth's natural cycles. Such technologies are increasingly being discussed as potential ways to address climate change. Capturing carbon dioxide...
View ArticleHere's how we'll control the weather in 100 years
Climate change can cause dramatic shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns. While scientists won't be able to reverse all of the negative impacts of these changes, they are looking for ways...
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A team of designers wants to build an iceberg-making submarine to pop out...
A team of designers has put forward a proposal for an iceberg-making submarine that could produce 82-foot-wide, 16-foot-thick chunks of ice. The concept could be a way to combat sea-level rise and...
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Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's climate plan includes geoengineering, a...
Andrew Yang, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, unveiled his full plan to tackle climate change last week. Unlike most other candidates, Yang wants the US to take the lead in geoengineering:...
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An engineer has devised a way to stop Arctic ice from melting by scattering...
Scientists have discovered that melting in Greenland and Antarctica is occurring much faster than they previously thought. This year, the extent of Arctic sea ice was the second-lowest ever...
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Any hope of keeping Earth habitable now requires sucking carbon back out of...
Summary List PlacementEven if we stopped emitting greenhouse gas today, the Earth would continue warming for centuries. Arctic ice and permafrost are already on an irreversible path of melting.That's...
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