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Mon 02 Feb 2010Heated debate on geoengineering solutions to climate change
ENGINEERS ARE looking at ways of reversing global warming, not by lowering the carbon dioxide that causes it but through “geoengineering”, literally changing the face of the Earth to shed heat.
“If we can warm the planet, can we also cool it?” was the title chosen for a session at the AAAS that was marked as much by tensions between the “for” and “against” camps making presentations as by attempts to explain what geoengineering actually involves.
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