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August 3rd, 2011
Should We Engineer Earth’s Climate?

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With the wide acceptance of global warming as both real and potentially problematic, geoengineering — defined by the UK’s Royal Society as “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change” — is currently experiencing a surge of interest.  Despite the differentiated nature of the challenges, the greatest risk and uncertainty for the Asia Pacific region arises from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, which are very difficult to manage. The discourse has thus far been driven by scholarly communities in Europe and the US; perspectives from other key regions such as Asia-Pacific are lacking. Read More