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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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And that idea became what they call now marine cloud brightening. And these marine strata cumulus are very thin and they’re very susceptible to adding little particles that make them a little bit thicker. Now in both cases, and especially in marine cloud brightening, there’s a lot that we don’t know. That’s the theory.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We Craig Smith , an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , who has led seven research expeditions to the CCZ. But while they might have low biomass, they also have astounding biodiversity.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. from Syracuse University College of Law (where he was recipient of the “Global Law & Practice Award” as the outstanding graduate in the areas of International Law and International Business Law) and a B.S., Flexible Debt Capital.

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