Tag Archives: geoengineering

CIA & Engineering the Earth’s Environment

Posted on by Mark Nykanen

Fascinating piece in The American Prospect (link, as always, to follow) that looks at the CIA’s recently revealed interest in studying geoengineering. That’s the use of technological means to slow down the planet’s warming. Various means have been bandied about to reflect sunlight back into space, now that nature’s way–vast ice sheets and snowfields, for [...]

Geoengineering and Climate Change

Posted on by Mark Nykanen

A comprehensive piece in the The New Yorker on the status of geoengineering–using technological tools to alter the planet’s thermostat. It’s a highly controversial subject because geoengineering has catastrophic potential, but the very fact that it’s under serious consideration in many quarters is because humans have already geoengineered Earth’s atmosphere by pumping greenhouse gases into [...]