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3 Key Dangers of Solar Geoengineering and Why Some Critics Urge a Global Ban

3 Key Dangers of Solar Geoengineering and Why Some Critics Urge a Global Ban

By Justin Mikulka A Harvard research team recently announced plans to perform early tests to shoot sunlight-reflecting particles into the high atmosphere to slow or reverse global warming. These research efforts, which could take shape as soon as the first half of 2019, fall under the banner of a geoengineering technology known as solar radiation […]

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    3 Key Dangers of Solar Geoengineering and Why Some Critics Urge a Global Ban

    3 Key Dangers of Solar Geoengineering and Why Some Critics Urge a Global Ban

    By Justin Mikulka A Harvard research team recently announced plans to perform early tests to shoot sunlight-reflecting particles into the high atmosphere to slow or reverse global warming. These research efforts, which could take shape as soon as the first half of 2019, fall under the banner of a geoengineering technology known as solar radiation […]

    Harvard Board Member Calls on University to ‘Stop Owning Climate Change’

    Harvard Board Member Calls on University to ‘Stop Owning Climate Change’

    Kathryn “Kat” Taylor, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and wife of billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, made an unprecedented public call on Harvard University to divest from fossil fuel stocks. The action comes after the university’s $37.1 billion endowment—the world’s largest academic fund—reported a lackluster 8.1 percent return that reflected “deep structural […]

    Scientists Solve Climate Hiatus ‘Puzzle of the Century’: So Now What?

    Scientists Solve Climate Hiatus ‘Puzzle of the Century’: So Now What?

    By Tim Radford Two U.S. scientists have solved the hypothetical puzzle of the century: how to explain the reported climate “hiatus” and reconcile two different ways of predicting the global temperature by 2100. They say they now know why computer simulations and the forecasts made by a study of the historical record don’t seem to […]

    World’s Largest Geoengineering Study Triggers Major Controversy

    World’s Largest Geoengineering Study Triggers Major Controversy

    In an effort to cool the atmosphere, Harvard University will inject aerosols 12 miles into the atmosphere, leading the charge on the largest geoengineering study to ever take place. The first two “small-scale” dispersals will consist of water and calcium carbonate—two naturally occurring aerosols that regulate Earth’s radiation balance. The idea is to mimic a […]

    Harvard Is One Step Closer to Developing Cheap, Long-Lasting Battery Storage

    Harvard Is One Step Closer to Developing Cheap, Long-Lasting Battery Storage

    By Kieran Cooke It is the holy grail of the renewable energy sector—a cheap and efficient battery system that can store energy generated by renewables such as wind and solar. These days there are few who doubt the potential of renewables, except those diehards on the extreme of the fossil fuel industry. According to the […]