Entries tagged with: Terraforming Earth

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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...

Posted on October 14, 2010 9:24 AM

Notes for "Battlefield Earth"

Foreign Policy has just published a substantially updated version of my article "Terraforming War," on the potential strategic/military use of geoengineering, under the title "Battlefield Earth." As it is not FP policy to put links in articles, I thought I'd...

Posted on January 28, 2008 6:27 PM

Terraforming War

No nation that sees itself as a great power is going to be willing to risk having its climate and environment completely in the hands of another nation. Research into methodologies for geoengineering will happen simply out of self-preservation --...

Posted on December 29, 2007 4:34 PM

The Politics of Geoengineering

Geoengineering -- or, as I sometimes call it, re-terraforming the Earth -- is back in the news, with a sobering editorial in today's New York Times by Carnegie's Dr. Ken Caldeira. Caldeira's commentary arrives in the wake of news that...

Posted on October 24, 2007 10:25 PM

Tuesday Topsight, May 22, 2007

Plowing through interesting links accumulated during my travel. • Lucky to be Alive: All of us are. Lucky to be alive, I mean. It turns out that, about 13,000 years ago, humankind came very close to extinction, courtesy of a...

Posted on May 22, 2007 6:33 PM

Christian Science Monitor on the Ethics of Geoengineering

Today's Christian Science Monitor has a thoughtful article on the morality of geoengineering as an option for confronting climate disaster. It's a decent overview of the current thinking on the subject, although it doesn't mention a couple of topics I...

Posted on March 29, 2007 1:27 PM

Open Source Terraforming

Whether we like it or not, geoengineering -- a process I've taken to calling "(re)terraforming the Earth" -- is now on the table as a strategy for dealing with onrushing climate disaster. This isn't because it's a particularly good idea;...

Posted on February 15, 2007 5:27 PM

We Win the War; Now the Fight Begins

Bruce Sterling's Viridian Note #00487, sent today, is something of a victory announcement for the Viridian movement. The idea -- the truth -- that the planet is in the midst of an extraordinary climate disaster is no longer a fringe...

Posted on January 27, 2007 4:16 PM

Terraforming the Earth, Now In the Spotlight

Geoengineering -- aka planetary engineering, aka (re-)terraforming the Earth -- has once again popped up into the public limelight. The latest issue of Wired has an article about Nobel-prize-winner Paul Crutzen's proposal to spray sulfur particles into the high atmosphere...

Posted on November 27, 2006 2:34 PM

RAIDs Against Global Warming

This has "duh... why did we think of this before!" written all over it: a "redundant array of inexpensive disks" to cool the Earth. Everyone with a bit of sense knows that the only way to combat global warming-induced climate...

Posted on November 3, 2006 5:14 PM

New Futurismic Column Up

My monthly column at Futurismic is now up: The Geoengineering Option. Those who are familiar with my pieces at WorldChanging on "Terraforming Earth" will find some of the content familiar, but the focus in this piece is on understanding geoengineering/terraforming...

Posted on October 1, 2006 12:44 PM

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