Entries tagged with: Geoengineering

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Notes for "Battlefield Earth"

Foreign Policy has just published a substantially updated version of my article "Terraforming War," on the potential strategic/military use of geoengineering, under the title "Battlefield Earth." As it is not FP policy to put links in articles, I thought I'd...

Posted on January 28, 2008 6:27 PM

Six Degrees

Six Degrees is the National Geographic Television program that flew me to Colorado to talk about cheeseburger footprints while wandering around a cattle ranch and a burger joint. The show now has a time and date: Sunday, February 10 at...

Posted on January 22, 2008 4:02 PM

Terraforming War

No nation that sees itself as a great power is going to be willing to risk having its climate and environment completely in the hands of another nation. Research into methodologies for geoengineering will happen simply out of self-preservation --...

Posted on December 29, 2007 4:34 PM

The Politics of Geoengineering

Geoengineering -- or, as I sometimes call it, re-terraforming the Earth -- is back in the news, with a sobering editorial in today's New York Times by Carnegie's Dr. Ken Caldeira. Caldeira's commentary arrives in the wake of news that...

Posted on October 24, 2007 10:25 PM

Solving the Climate Crisis

With Al Gore and the IPCC wining the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, lots of people are talking about global warming. The remaining holdouts and dead-enders continue to bray about hoaxes and imaginary disputes, but by and large the dominant focus...

Posted on October 13, 2007 9:46 PM

Tuesday Topsight, May 22, 2007

Plowing through interesting links accumulated during my travel. • Lucky to be Alive: All of us are. Lucky to be alive, I mean. It turns out that, about 13,000 years ago, humankind came very close to extinction, courtesy of a...

Posted on May 22, 2007 6:33 PM

Earth Day Essay

I've gone ahead and contributed an essay to WorldChanging's "Earth Day" series, a brief set of scenarios based on the matrix shown above. It's very much a high-level view of potential Earth futures, and is meant more as a...

Posted on April 22, 2007 11:46 AM

Interview for Changesurfer Radio

Trinity College Professor of Healthy Policy James Hughes, founder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (of which I am a Fellow), runs a weekly Internet radio show called "Changesurfer Radio," covering a variety of topics related to building...

Posted on April 1, 2007 1:37 PM

Christian Science Monitor on the Ethics of Geoengineering

Today's Christian Science Monitor has a thoughtful article on the morality of geoengineering as an option for confronting climate disaster. It's a decent overview of the current thinking on the subject, although it doesn't mention a couple of topics I...

Posted on March 29, 2007 1:27 PM

Open Source Terraforming

Whether we like it or not, geoengineering -- a process I've taken to calling "(re)terraforming the Earth" -- is now on the table as a strategy for dealing with onrushing climate disaster. This isn't because it's a particularly good idea;...

Posted on February 15, 2007 5:27 PM

OtF Core: Geoethical Principles

(Jon Lebkowsky, over in the conversation with Bruce Sterling at the Well, reminded me of one of my favorite and most difficult posts over at WorldChanging, one that's worth bringing over here. It's an exploration of "geoethical principles" -- the...

Posted on January 6, 2007 2:43 PM

Terraforming the Earth, Now In the Spotlight

Geoengineering -- aka planetary engineering, aka (re-)terraforming the Earth -- has once again popped up into the public limelight. The latest issue of Wired has an article about Nobel-prize-winner Paul Crutzen's proposal to spray sulfur particles into the high atmosphere...

Posted on November 27, 2006 2:34 PM

RAIDs Against Global Warming

This has "duh... why did we think of this before!" written all over it: a "redundant array of inexpensive disks" to cool the Earth. Everyone with a bit of sense knows that the only way to combat global warming-induced climate...

Posted on November 3, 2006 5:14 PM

New Futurismic Column Up

My monthly column at Futurismic is now up: The Geoengineering Option. Those who are familiar with my pieces at WorldChanging on "Terraforming Earth" will find some of the content familiar, but the focus in this piece is on understanding geoengineering/terraforming...

Posted on October 1, 2006 12:44 PM

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