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Carbfix turns emissions into stone

AGreenLiving

.” Carbon emissions are the top reason for global warming and a major factor in extreme weather events and ocean acidification. The project first started in 2006. Carbfix aims to cut climate change off at the knees and help the world reach the Paris agreement goals.

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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. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated.

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

DeSmogBlog

Many of the cases are using the Environmental Protection Act, which I drafted many years ago, and which, for example, requires companies to take into account their impact on the climate, their impact on the atmosphere, their impact on the ocean.