climate engineering
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Apple Called Out for ‘Scientifically Inaccurate’ Greenwashing
Apple has been touting its environmental bonafides, but the EU’s largest consumer organisation calls all mention of ‘carbon neutral’ misleading.
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MIT Scientists Propose Space Bubbles to Reverse the Worst of Climate Change
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that we can mitigate the worst of climate change with… space bubbles. They’ve outlined a strategy in which a huge raft of bubbles, carefully positioned between Earth and the Sun, would deflect sunlight (and thus heat) to stop further global warming.
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The Wild, Uncertain Future of Carbon Dioxide Removal
A group of powerful companies on Monday announced a new venture to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Meta, Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify, and McKinsey are pledging together to buy $US925 ($1,284) million worth of carbon removal over the next nine years, a move they say will create a market that will help develop needed…
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We’re a Step Closer to Geoengineering the Oceans
The U.S. government has moved one step closer to turning science fiction into reality. On Wednesday, the federally funded National Academy of Sciences released a new report laying out six avenues to alter the oceans in an attempt to suck more carbon dioxide out of the sky and store it for centuries to come.