The RP's Weekly Web Gems: Politics of the Planet

The Politics of the Planet

People have been searching for a technical fix for global climate change for a long time.  One of the leading plans has been "cloud whitening" which would decrease the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth, thereby decreasing the greenhouse effect.  However, new evidence from Europe shows that this technique might actually warm the planet even more.  [BBC]

Are you more optimistic about the use of technology to solve the planet's climate ills? Scientists at the...