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Weighing the pros and cons of stratospheric geoengineering

The ideas may sound like science fiction, but some researchers are seriously considering what it would take to shoot sun-reflecting aerosols into the atmosphere to counter climate change. Fleets of small jet aircraft could fly into the lower ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Ars Technica,  22 Oct 2009

Scientists seek global limits on damaging human activities

A major environmental disaster may no longer be a question of if, but when, according to a growing number of leading scientists. The multiple threats posed by unrestricted climate change, ozone depletion, and pollution, among others, has made the need ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Ars Technica,  27 Sep 2009

Monkey see, monkey do: computer animations make chimps yawn

What makes yawning so contagious? Empathy, as it turns out, causes us to respond to a friend’s boredom. Children as young as two can display the basic capacity to understand how others feel, and respond accordingly, and several studies have indicated ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Ars Technica,  20 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Matthew Campbell,  Royal Society

Focus on climate mitigation; give geoengineering a chance

Of the many techniques they looked at, only enhanced weathering (a process that normally removes CO2 from the atmosphere) scored highly on the effectiveness scale. What began as a series of model simulations, an attempt by scientists to quantify ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Ars Technica,  6 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Royal Society

The Climate Change Hangover

Let’s assume that the Obama administration and Congress get their act together this year and make good on their pledge of enacting meaningful climate legislation by establishing the nation’s first cap-and-trade system. Let’s further assume, for the ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  18 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  James Hansen,  European Union

New Study on Solar Variability Is Neither New Nor a Study

The piece, entitled “Solar Variability: Striking a Balance with Climate Change,” makes the point that, over the course of the Earth’s history, the sun and volcanic eruptions have typically exerted the largest influence on climate change. In recent ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  7 Jun 2009
Related Topics: NASA,  James Hansen,  Royal Society

Denier Conference Readies for Round Three

The likes of Senator James Inhofe, Lord Christopher Monckton and Anthony Watts will be descending on the Washington Court Hotel this week to discuss the “widespread dissent to the asserted “consensus” on the causes, consequences, and proper responses ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: ExxonMobil,  Heartland Institute,  Fred Singer,  Competitive Enterprise Institute,  Al Gore

A Question of Framing

What a difference a year can make. While the consensus on the Hill may not have grown stronger in the interim—I’m looking at you, House Republicans—the American public seems to be increasingly wising up to the idea that global warming is, in fact, a ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  24 May 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Center for American Progress,  Rush Limbaugh,  Michael Steele,  Joe Six-Pack

The Oceans v. EPA

“Out of sight, out of mind,” is a pithy saying that aptly sums up the attitude most industrialized countries have toward ocean acidification. While there has been much (justified) hand-wringing about the terrestrial impacts of climate change, ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  Barack Obama

The OMB-EPA Kerfuffle That Wasn't

Is the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) deliberately trying to sabotage the EPA’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide emissions? Is Peter Orszag, the agency’s brainy and genial director, secretly in cahoots with Republican opponents of ...

From JEREMY JACQUOT, Desmogblog,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  Barack Obama,  White House,  George W. Bush,  Peter Orszag

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