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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?

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Q&A: Meet the Lawyer Fighting To Pry the ‘Jewel’ From ExxonMobil’s Crown 

DeSmogBlog

Burning all of Guyana’s estimated offshore reserves of at least 11 billion barrels would release about five gigatons of planet-heating carbon dioxide — the equivalent to ten times the amount of greenhouse gases the UK emitted last year. We need to get to what people call negative emissions. Move to carbon sinks.