Entries tagged with: Geoengineering
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42 Minutes into the Future
Last December, at the Humanity+ event in San Francisco, I sat down with filmmaker Adam Ford for an extended interview on a wide variety of subjects, including the participatory panopticon, the possibilities around AI, geoengineering, even the role of art...
Ambition
(Note: an unfinished version of this post was accidentally posted previously.) One of the more interesting panels at the 2012 Aspen Environment Forum was a discussion of whether "nature" was even still a viable concept. It's broadly accepted that humankind...
Got the Time
I've been mulling something of late, and it hasn't left me in a tremendously good mood. Take a look at these two sets of graphs: The first one is from the US Energy Information Administration, a group within the US...
Hacking the Earth, in London
On Thursday, November 10, I gave a talk on geoengineering for the "Truth and Beauty" series at the Hub/Westminster. The host of the event, Vinay Gupta (a name you might recall from Worldchanging), video'd the talk and subsequent Q&A,...
London Calling At the Top of the Dial
I will be in London next week, and have arranged a talk -- open to the public -- on the topic of Geoengineering. Thursday evening, November 10, I'll be speaking at the Hub Westminster, as part of the TruthAndBeauty series....
Misanthropocene
If you follow the online climate discussion, you've undoubtedly run across the mention of something called the "Little Ice Age," a period in Earth's history -- generally considered to be between the 16th and 19th centuries -- where the much...
Geomimicry
In many sustainability circles, "bioengineering" = "bad and scary," while "biomimcry" = "cool and useful." Biomimicry usually doesn't involve bioengineering, and in fact often relies upon completely non-biological processes to mimic biological effects. And it is, in fact, pretty cool...
Geoengineering and Hearsay Culture
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by David Levine for Hearsay Culture, an internet radio show produced through the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. It was a lengthy, wide-ranging discussion, ostensibly about geoengineering but wandering off...
Terraforming the Earth, Taken Seriously
It's amazing what can happen in five years. Yesterday, October 13 2010, I delivered a talk on the political and ethical dilemmas surrounding geoengineering at the National Academy of Sciences. I spoke at a meeting organized by the Government-University-Industry Research...
NEXT 2010 talk
I was in Denmark last week, speaking at NEXT 2010. The subject... geoengineering (dun dun DUN). Here's the talk. When I watched a part of it, the sound was off-sync with the video, so fair warning. And fun game for...
A Response to Dale...
[Dale Carrico, at Amor Mundi, wrote a thought-provoking piece on whether geoengineering should be considered "futurological greenwashing," covering aspects including the fuzziness of the concept, who's behind efforts to promote the concept, and its non-democratic nature. Chris Mooney (the original...
Rogue Geoengineering Project Underway?
Last week, Kyle Vandercamp, an atmospheric scientist, blew the whistle on a rogue geoengineering project funded by billionaire Harrison Wyld. Vandercamp was a senior scientist at the Bluebird Lab, and managed to get ahold of some pretty damning documents laying...
Getting it Right
A Survival Guide to Geoengineering, my essay for Momentum, the journal of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, is now available online and via PDF. It's an exploration of what would be necessary to reduce the risks...
Hacking the Earth (Without Voiding the Warranty)
The talk I gave at the State of Green Business Forum last week is now available on video. Runs about 22 minutes. (There are some inexplicably lengthy shots of the static presentation images, but other than that, it looks pretty...
Living On (and Hacking the) Earth
Last month, I was interviewed for the syndicated "Living on Earth" program (typically heard on NPR stations) on the subject of geoengineering. That interview was run this past weekend, and is now available -- with transcript -- at the Living...
A Cold War Over Warming
What happens if global efforts to set and abide by strong carbon emissions cuts fail? The standard answer to a question like this is that "we all suffer." While that's probably true, it misses the point -- we may...
New Fast Company: 350
My latest Fast Company piece is up. 350 takes a look at the global movement to limit CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. If this sounds like I think the 350 movement is a bad idea......
Catching Up
Okay, folks, for the handful of you still following (and the subset thereof who may be interested -- hi Mom!), here's a set of links to recent video and audio interviews. Hour-long interview for Wisconsin Public Radio, on Geoengineering: Kathleen...
BREAKING: "San Francisco Futurist" Causes Exploding Heads
Imminent Death of Wall Street Journal Expected Apparently, I'm a "kook," "insane," an "idiot," and should be "tied to a rocket ship and shot into the Sun." At least according to the people who took the time to write to...
WSJ: It's Time to Cool the Planet
In which I admit that I have become a reluctant geoengineering advocate. To their credit, the Wall Street Journal editors I worked with gave me absolutely no push-back about including numerous strident calls for carbon emissions elimination alongside geoengineering....
Understanding Geoengineering
While in Amsterdam, I had the pleasure of meeting with the group FreedomLab. They interviewed me on a series of topics, including geoengineering; a DVD of the interview will be available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, in...
Topsight, May 26, 2009
Because this blog isn't just links to stuff I've done elsewhere. Honest! • The Participatory Panopticon In Action Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire From The Onion, of course. As tongue-in-cheek as this...
Hacking the Earth Slides
Hacking the EarthView more presentations from Jamais Cascio. Here are the slides I used for the Futuresonic 2009 keynote. I made the slides somewhat provocative in tone, but tempered the argument in my spoken presentation. Feedback always welcome....
Geoengineering: New Problems, Old Politics
I've been writing about geoengineering since 2005, and have even published a short book on the subject (Hacking the Earth), looking primarily at the ethics and politics of the issue. The political aspects are, in my view, the most important,...
Geoengineering's Drawbacks
Because I'm not reflexively opposed to geoengineering research, and because I increasingly suspect that some level of albedo-management geoengineering will be necessary simply due to climate disruption happening faster than previously expected, some people tend to assume that I'm a...
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