Friday, August 24, 2012

Geoengineering: Risks and benefits

BBC: Few issues arouse as much controversy in environmental circles these days as geoengineering - "technical fixes" to tackle climate change, by sucking carbon dioxide from the air or by reducing the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth. And here's why. If Planet Earth is facing a climate "emergency", as some people believe we are, then we should leave no option for combating it unexplored, they argue. While very few scientists advocate deployment of geoengineering now, many believe we ought...

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19371833#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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