Zeus: As nuclear gains favor, it’s time to talk about geoengineering
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights (David Callaway is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Callaway Climate Insights. He is the former president of the World Editors Forum, Editor-in-Chief of USA Today and MarketWatch, and CEO of TheStreet Inc.) SAN FRANCISCO (Callaway…
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights
(David Callaway is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Callaway Climate Insights. He is the former president of the World Editors Forum, Editor-in-Chief of USA Today and MarketWatch, and CEO of TheStreet Inc.)
SAN FRANCISCO (Callaway Climate Insights) — The controversy over whether to use nuclear power as a transition energy as we move to renewables from fossil fuels has grown in just a few years from a philosophical debate to impending legal reality.
The next step will almost certainly be the elevation of certain geoengineering ideas, once derided as science fiction, to legitimate climate-fighting tools. Indeed, we may already be there.
So, it’s worth it to open the Pandora’s Box of geoengineering once more. The idea that hacking the atmosphere or oceans in a dramatic way might stop the sun’s increasing heat and destructive melting of the polar caps. . . .
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