Sentences with phrase «on geoengineering schemes»

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What I have said is that your assertion that some unspecified geoengineering scheme or schemes «CAN» — and that was your word, «CAN», not «conceivably might» or «possibly could», but «CAN» — control the Earth's temperature as accurately and reliably as a simple elecromechanical on / off thermostat controls a furnace, has no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

It is not just the concept of planting trees on the Nullabor which is barmy, nor of the huge energy requirements of moving the water necessary to support such mad geoengineering schemes.

Andersen: If we went forward with one of these global geoengineering schemes, would that be the end of wilderness on this planet, and does wilderness exist now?

Still, of all the geoengineering schemes on the table, this is the easiest and most affordable, and has the fewest negative consequences.

Geoengineering schemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geosschemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature GeosSchemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

He spoke Tuesday at a panel discussion hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the subject of the role of aerospace industries in potential geoengineering schemes.

Impatient with this kind of warning, some ultra-moderns are even now planning to impose their will on those forces by means of geoengineering schemes aimed at regulating the amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

Tim told me when I was reporting the Andy Ridgwell paper on leaf albedo (Nature story blog entry) that he'd become pretty interested in evaluating geoengineering schemes, and was setting up a group at the University of East Anglia to assess them.

Also, there's no way to fully test this dust cloud on a large scale to verify its effectiveness before implementing it, «something that is common to all geoengineering schemes,» Bewick said.