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Earlier this month @michaelemann.bsky.social & Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social) wrote about the UK's $58 million plans for geoengineering R&D, including "field trials that risk developing dangerous technology and paving the way for deployment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials
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March 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Earlier this month @michaelemann.bsky.social & Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social) wrote about the UK's $58 million plans for geoengineering R&D, including "field trials that risk developing dangerous technology and paving the way for deployment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The risks of geoengineering have been pretty constant, as I felt deeply when I reported this last year. How to restate them again in a novel way for the gazillionth time? Moral hazard, rising geopolitical tensions, doesn't address ocean acid., termination shock!
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The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?
The University of Chicago is attempting to position itself as the place for serious scientific consideration of the logistics and implications of Earth system interventions aimed at reversing or count...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The risks of geoengineering have been pretty constant, as I felt deeply when I reported this last year. How to restate them again in a novel way for the gazillionth time? Moral hazard, rising geopolitical tensions, doesn't address ocean acid., termination shock!
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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2