Friday, July 6, 2012

Global energy solutions: Going all in

Atlantic: Climate scientists call it the Greenhouse Gamble, and the question is this: how long can we continue contributing to climate change before climate change takes on a life of its own? Because, eventually, it will. As indicated in the stunning photography of the Rivers of Ice project presented at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, ancient glaciers are receding and doing so at an alarming rate. The newly exposed earth in turn absorbs heat from the sun, which the ice otherwise would reflect back into the...

URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/shell-solutions/archive/2012/07/global-energy-solutions-going-all-in/259490/

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