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We’ve done zip

Posted: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 @ 7:32 pm in Environment, Movies, Web | No Comments »

An interesting talk highlighting an idea of geoengineering to induce Global Cooling. He also talks about Paul Crutzen suggesting this idea, and I even heard Paul Crutzen in our seminar talk about this.
Yes, we have done zip and will not do enough, but I personally find the very idea that we could do something that […]

Black Carbon

Posted: Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 @ 8:08 pm in Environment, Science | No Comments »

TreeHugger discusses an important topic. Carbon dioxide certainly is the most important contributor to the artifical greenhouse effect leading to global warming, especially since the amount of carbon dioxide dramatically increases (compared e.g. to methane). But it is irresponsible to reduce global warming merely to carbon dioxide.
So-called “black carbone”, that is carbon particles from soot […]