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...geoengineering, or using technology to directly cool the earth to compensate for man-made climate change. The authors visit Nathan Myhrvold, the brilliant former chief technology officer of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private think tank. Myhrvold and his staff have the idea to build a giant "garden hose to the sky" that would pump liquefied sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists know that increasing SO2 in the air deflects sunlight, which cools down the earth; when Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines exploded in 1992, for instance, the SO2 sent into the atmosphere created a brief global...
...know what the potential side effects of geoengineering might be or whether the entire operation would backfire badly. Geoengineering might be a cheaper option, but followed out to at least one logical conclusion, it could be a pitfall. Say we try to use Myhrvold's giant-garden-hose scheme (after hopefully giving it a better name) without reducing carbon emissions. We could end up in a situation in which we can't abandon geoengineering without risking sudden, disastrous warming due to unchecked CO2 emissions. Then, what was meant to be a quick, cheap fix would turn...
...palm trees, sleek benches designed in Valencia, Spain, and an artificial river lit neon blue. Working through the night, workers built the place in three months. Construction unions, Saakashvili joked, would come to Georgia only "when everything is already built." One of the renovated plazas will host a giant civic New Year's Eve concert featuring Julio Iglesias, whom Saakashvili decided to hire for just over $1 million. While going over blueprints with his Spanish architects, Saakashvili told me he likes buildings that are "original, crazy and brave." He said Batumi could be "the next Dubai." He then produced...
Stocks continued their seven-month rally, lifting the Dow Jones industrial average above 10,000 points for the first time since last October. The symbolic milestone followed better-than-expected September retail sales and once troubled banking giant JPMorgan Chase's report that it earned $3.6 billion in the third quarter. Optimists considered the news an omen of improved economic conditions despite stubbornly high unemployment...
...We’re doing all we can to make sure there’s a community for anyone who cares to be a part of it—whether not out, coming out, or walking down the street draped in a giant rainbow flag,” Chan said...