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March 20, 2013

Guiding responsible research in geoengineering
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2013
Geoengineering, the use of human technologies to alter the Earth's climate system - such as injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to scatter incoming sunlight back to space - has emerged as a potentially promising way to mitigate the impacts of climate change. But such efforts could present unforeseen new risks. That inherent tension, argue two professors from UCLA and Harvard, has thwarted both scientific advances and the development of an international framework for regulating and g ... read more

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