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As climate change accelerates, policymakers may have to consider "geoengineering" as an emergency strategy to cool the planet. Engineering the climate strikes most as a bad idea, but it is time to start taking it seriously.
Authors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Science and Technology, M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University, John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and Katharine Ricke
March/April 2009
Foreign Affairs
As climate change accelerates, policymakers may have to consider "geoengineering" as an emergency strategy to cool the planet. Engineering the climate strikes most as a bad idea, but it is time to start taking it seriously.
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