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Update: Alan Robock has a brilliant summary in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled 20 reasons why geo-engineering might be a bad idea.
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Update: Alan Robock has a brilliant summary in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled 20 reasons why geo-engineering might be a bad idea.
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Alan Robock, an environmental scientist at Rutgers, notes that when the dead algae degrades, it could emit methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
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Alan Robock, an environmental scientist at Rutgers, notes that when the dead algae degrades, it could emit methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
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Update: Alan Robock has a brilliant summary in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled 20 reasons why geo-engineering might be a bad idea.
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Alan Robock, an environmental scientist at Rutgers, notes that when the dead algae degrades, it could emit methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
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“A cooling of several degrees would occur over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions,” Robock said.
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"So this one was 10,000 times smaller, and put the sulfur dioxide into a region where its lifetime is only a week or so, as compared to one-two years in the stratosphere, so that's another factor of 100 smaller in terms of lifetime," Robock said via email.
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Professor Robock, let me start with you, because some of the e - mails that have been leaked actually contain a few e-mails you had sent to the person who is now -- Phil Jones, this climate researcher.
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That's why critics like Robock and prominent atmospheric-sciences historian James Rodger Fleming want to avoid "playing God with the elements," to use Fleming's phrase.
Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change? By Chris Mooney 2008
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