Researcher: Ban Patents on Geoengineering Technology

ClimateWire: Researchers working on a technology they say could stop global warming want the government to keep it out of private hands, a lead investigator said this week. David Keith, a Harvard University professor and an adviser on energy to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said he and his colleagues are researching whether the federal government could ban patents in the field of solar radiation. The technology, also known as geoengineering, involves a kind of manipulation of the climate. Shooting sulfur --...

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