geoengineering

Geoengineering again

November 12, 2007 | Michael Tobis

A really excellent article on geoengineering appears on Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth in which In It reader RM Reiss has already commented briefly but cleverly. Revkin also points to related NYTimes articles by Cornelia Dean and William Broad.

I’ve been hard on journalists in general and Revkin in particular of late, so let me take this opportunity to emphasize that not all journalism is off base and the NYTimes in particular is usually very helpful, at least in this regard. [more]

Microsoft Tells Us About Geoengineering

May 11, 2007 | Michael Tobis

Speaking of engineers, IEEE Spectrum has an article on geoengineering that reads rather as if Heiko Gerhauser had written it, except that it is by Somebody Important, specifically William B. Gail, director of strategic development at Microsoft’s Virtual Earth unit, and a member of the National Research Council’s “Decadal Study” group for Earth science and applications, whatever any of that means. [more]

Geoengineering and Intergenerational Ethics

April 19, 2007 | Michael Tobis

EnvironmentalResearchWeb has a very interesting article by Steve Gardiner of “the other UW”, on the subject on the ethics of geoengineering as an alternative to mitigation or adaptation.