Tag Archives : cutting carbon emissions
Yet another hurdle to the Copenhagen climate deal: African countries boycotting climate change talks
In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, African countries are boycotting climate change conferences. They allege that ‘the world’s rich nations must do more to cut emissions.’ This is just one of the hurdles being encountered by the controversial climate deal negotiations whose final agreements hope [...]
Filed in: Energy, Environment
Geo-Engineering the Earth: Mad Science for a Mad Planet (scary because it can be done)
Geologists prefer to call the past two centuries as ‘the anthropocene period, a time when humans have reshaped about half of the Earth’s surface. We have dictated what plants grow and where. We’ve pocked and deformed the Earth’s crust with mines and wells, and we’ve commandeered a huge fraction of its freshwater supply for our own purposes.’
Humans [...]
