Geo-engineering is defined by the National Academy of Sciences as, “options that would involve large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the effects of changes in atmospheric chemistry.” Before we fully realized the enormous impacts of our actions, burning fossil fuels, we had already released millions of tons of green house [...]
Geo-engineering: Cheap Benefits, Expensive Consequences.
Geo-engineering is the physical manipulation of earth’s climate. The enormous amount of fossil fuels burned over the past few decades is how we humans effectively geo-engineered ourselves into the global climate crisis we have right now. Recently, there have been proposals to geo-engineer in the other direction, to use science and technology to alter the [...]
