Unless there is a major piece of breaking science news, the featured facts for the first three days of this week will focus on energy policy and how we can reduce the threat that global warming appears to pose to civilization. Well start with this article from the Physics Today web site. It discusses geo-engineering, which means trying to engineer the climate with technological fixes. scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/66/11/10.1063/PT.3.2174 This topic is quite controversial. In fact, even conducting small scale tests is meeting serious objections. The article (suitable for readers in junior high or older) describes it this way: Although debate has arisen over who decides whether geoengineering technologies will ever be deployed, the more urgent issue for researchers is the sanctioning of outdoor experiments that must occur long before deployment. Because of the inherent risks of adverse impacts, agreement is widespread, even among geoengineering’s strongest proponents, that some sort of governance for such tests is needed.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:49:46 +0000
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