Tag: geoengineering
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Old people don’t care about climate change
I saw this video last night on Grist – Old people don’t care about climate change – and it was funny yet there’s some truth to it. Unfortunately I can’t post it to my blog so you’ll have to click through to Grist and watch it there instead. I really like Grist.org. They have an interesting assortment…
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Playing God with Earth’s thermostat
In an attempt to propel the discussion from “is it or isn’t it happening” to “what should we do about it”, I want to bring up the topic of geo-engineering. This is essentially large-scale manipulation of Earth’s climate by us. It comes in many flavours from capturing CO2 for storage deep beneath the sea to developing…
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Why isn’t it getting colder?
Most people in New Zealand and Australia will be familiar with the terms El Niño and La Niña which describe the Pacific ocean-atmosphere oscillation and which influence local temperature and rainfall. For Australia, El Niño events tend to bring warmer temperatures and drought while La Niña often brings widespread rain and flooding. The floods of 1973-1974 occurred…
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