http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/01/the-double-edged-sword-of-geoengineering/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/01/the-double-edged-sword-of-geoengineering/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 20:15:41 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=25920 Shooting sulfur particles into the stratosphere to reflect the sun? Dumping iron into the ocean to boost the absorption of carbon dioxide? Could these far-fetched and dangerous-sounding schemes—geoengineering—help avert potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, or would they exacerbate conditions on our ever warming planet? ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/01/the-double-edged-sword-of-geoengineering/feed/ 2