global cooling
To avert climate disaster, what if one rogue nation dimmed the Sun?
In an influential cli-fi novel, a desperate government ignores international consensus and pumps aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the world. Could it happen for real?
Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists
Initiatives to inject billions of aerosol particles into the stratosphere to deflect solar rays and cool Earth are too risky to go forward; governments must act fast to rein in potentially disastrous planetary-scale solar geoengineering, say critics.
Here’s what scientists know about the Tonga volcano eruption
The explosion probably won’t cool the planet as some previous eruptions have done but it could affect weather in the short term.
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Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet
Scientists are tapping into a law of physics to create cooling systems that work without special fuel or electricity.
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Greenhouse gases have dominated climate change since about 1850
New research suggests that the Earth is currently warming at the highest rate ever observed as a result of greenhouse gases.
FLASHBACK: How the "global cooling" story came to be
Obligatory April Fools item -- don't say you weren't warned. April is the 43rd anniversary of the infamous "global cooling" story in Newsweek. A few years ago, Doug Struck tracked down the author for a chat for The Daily Climate.
Nine paragraphs written for Newsweek in 1975 continue to trump 40 years of climate science. It is a record that has its author amazed
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