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Apr 23, 2008
Geoengineering research: a waste of energy?
"Geoengineering is at best a last resort, at worst a diversion from mitigating climate change through lower emissions with dangerous unintended consequences," said Ron Prinn of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, kicking off the debate on geoengineering at the European Geosciences Union assembly in Vienna last week. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, US, was in agreement: "The existence of an insurance policy causes risky behaviour," he said. "Geoengineering will lead to higher, not lower, carbon dioxide emissions in future."
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