Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic?

Photo caption: Icebergs floating in Baffin Bay, Greenland in July 2022. the Arctic is warming at four times the speed of the rest of the planet, say scientists. Photo credit: Kerem Yucel / AFP / Getty Images. Article by Andrew Anthony. The Guardian – November 27, 2022. 

The climate emergency is prompting some scientists to suggest extreme measures. But whether you call it geoengineering or biomimicry, others feel interfering with nature will have too high a cost

Like the apocryphal frog that doesn’t notice the rising water temperature until it’s boiled alive, we as a global society are still struggling to recognize that anthropic global warming is hastening us towards irreversible environmental and ecological catastrophe. While there is consensus among climate scientists about the urgency […]

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