Entries tagged with: Geoengineering
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Rogue Geoengineering Project Underway?
Last week, Kyle Vandercamp, an atmospheric scientist, blew the whistle on a rogue geoengineering project funded by billionaire Harrison Wyld. Vandercamp was a senior scientist at the Bluebird Lab, and managed to get ahold of some pretty damning documents laying...
Getting it Right
A Survival Guide to Geoengineering, my essay for Momentum, the journal of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, is now available online and via PDF. It's an exploration of what would be necessary to reduce the risks...
Hacking the Earth (Without Voiding the Warranty)
The talk I gave at the State of Green Business Forum last week is now available on video. Runs about 22 minutes. (There are some inexplicably lengthy shots of the static presentation images, but other than that, it looks pretty...
Living On (and Hacking the) Earth
Last month, I was interviewed for the syndicated "Living on Earth" program (typically heard on NPR stations) on the subject of geoengineering. That interview was run this past weekend, and is now available -- with transcript -- at the Living...
A Cold War Over Warming
What happens if global efforts to set and abide by strong carbon emissions cuts fail? The standard answer to a question like this is that "we all suffer." While that's probably true, it misses the point -- we may...
New Fast Company: 350
My latest Fast Company piece is up. 350 takes a look at the global movement to limit CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. If this sounds like I think the 350 movement is a bad idea......
Catching Up
Okay, folks, for the handful of you still following (and the subset thereof who may be interested -- hi Mom!), here's a set of links to recent video and audio interviews. Hour-long interview for Wisconsin Public Radio, on Geoengineering: Kathleen...
BREAKING: "San Francisco Futurist" Causes Exploding Heads
Imminent Death of Wall Street Journal Expected Apparently, I'm a "kook," "insane," an "idiot," and should be "tied to a rocket ship and shot into the Sun." At least according to the people who took the time to write to...
WSJ: It's Time to Cool the Planet
In which I admit that I have become a reluctant geoengineering advocate. To their credit, the Wall Street Journal editors I worked with gave me absolutely no push-back about including numerous strident calls for carbon emissions elimination alongside geoengineering....
Understanding Geoengineering
While in Amsterdam, I had the pleasure of meeting with the group FreedomLab. They interviewed me on a series of topics, including geoengineering; a DVD of the interview will be available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, in...
Topsight, May 26, 2009
Because this blog isn't just links to stuff I've done elsewhere. Honest! • The Participatory Panopticon In Action Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire From The Onion, of course. As tongue-in-cheek as this...
Hacking the Earth Slides
Hacking the EarthView more presentations from Jamais Cascio. Here are the slides I used for the Futuresonic 2009 keynote. I made the slides somewhat provocative in tone, but tempered the argument in my spoken presentation. Feedback always welcome....
Geoengineering: New Problems, Old Politics
I've been writing about geoengineering since 2005, and have even published a short book on the subject (Hacking the Earth), looking primarily at the ethics and politics of the issue. The political aspects are, in my view, the most important,...
Geoengineering's Drawbacks
Because I'm not reflexively opposed to geoengineering research, and because I increasingly suspect that some level of albedo-management geoengineering will be necessary simply due to climate disruption happening faster than previously expected, some people tend to assume that I'm a...
Topsight, March 9, 2009
• Geoengineering Hits the Big-Time: My guess is that 2009 will be seen as the year geoengineering hit the mainstream. Just in the last couple of weeks, we've had: A deep look at geoengineering in New Scientist, complete with...
Hacking the Earth
Update for visitors from Dot.Earth: This entry is largely about the book process, and not about the content, so I'll rectify that problem. Hacking the Earth is a collection of essays written between 2005 and early 2009 on the...
Plan "G"
Grist's David Roberts asked me to do an overview of my thoughts on geoengineering for Gristmill. The piece -- given the title "Plan B" -- has now been posted. Here's an excerpt: No matter what, we would have to continue...
New Geoengineering Study, Part II
The article The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options is now out and available for download and discussion. As expected, it offers one of the first useful comparisons of different geoengineering techniques. (It should be noted that...
Nanobama
Mike Treder, director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, has offered up an entry to the "Citizen's Briefing Book" section of Obama's Change.org website. In "Advanced Nanotechnology - What, When, Why" Mike argues that an investment in the development of...
Global Climate and Global Power
I was pinged recently by the UK outfit Forum for the Future, a foresight team specializing in sustainable futures. They wanted to know what I thought would be the key issues the world would be confronting in 2030. "Climate" is...
Wednesday Topsight, November 12, 2008
Tick tick ticking in my head. • Nature Does Geo: Nature's blog offers a handy chart comparing the costs and uncertainties surrounding the various commonly-discussed forms of geoengineering. Clip & save! (Note: More bars="better," not necessarily "more of this.") •...
Methane Trigger for Geo & Bio Engineering
Methane (CH4) is 20-25 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2). We're quite familiar with one source of atmospheric methane -- enteric fermentation in cattle (see my innumerable posts about cheeseburger carbon footprints). But there's another...
More Geoengineering Coverage
It's fascinating to watch the evolution of the mainstream media coverage of the geoengineering concept. I'm actually pretty pleasantly surprised: most of the articles I've seen have had an overall tone of caution about the proposals, even while recognizing that...
Who Decides?
Who gets to determine the "right" climate for the Earth? We may broadly agree that the current climate -- warming, with chances of apocalypse -- is decidedly not the right one. After abundant political posturing and nationalist histrionics, we'll eventually...
Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices
I have one thing to say: depopulation is not a global warming strategy. Here's what leads me to that (seemingly obvious, but apparently not) observation. We know these to be true: Feedback effects ranging from methane released from melting permafrost...
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