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- noun An
engineer whose speciality isgeoengineering
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I may have heard the word "geoengineer" once or twice before, but I knew next to nothing about it, other than the fact that it generally referred to people with outlandish ideas about how to counteract global warming.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"geoengineer" the earth's climate, please remember that many cures have ended up being worse than the disease.
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Some have even proposed sulphur dioxide could used to geoengineer the planet by deliberately injecting millions of tonnes into the atmosphere to combat warming.
Sulphur from Chinese power stations 'masking' climate change 2011
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Some have even proposed sulphur dioxide could used to geoengineer the planet by deliberately injecting millions of tonnes into the atmosphere to combat warming.
Sulphur from Chinese power stations 'masking' climate change 2011
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In the last pages, Kintisch reveals his personal conclusion: "being forced to geoengineer would be a dismal fate" and "succumbing to the illusion of control" would mean replacing the burden of overhauling the world's energy system "with the much more risky burden of revolutionizing our relationship with the sky itself."
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Appears you are right Mark Controversial Iron-Seeding Experiment Produces a lot of Algae but Little CO2 Storage though knowing how we might succesfully geoengineer is valuable knowledge.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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Are we going to geoengineer warmer weather, or colder weather?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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Are we going to geoengineer warmer weather, or colder weather?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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Other ways to geoengineer the planet are being proposed.
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Are we going to geoengineer warmer weather, or colder weather?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Time to Look at Geoengineering? 2009
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