National Academy of Sciences backs untested technologies in the face of climate inaction

Climate engineering will never stop climate change

Injecting particles into the stratosphere to shade and cool the Earth will never stop climate change. This is the dramatic claim made in the July 2014 issue of Nature Climate Change by an international group of prominent scientists. In theory, the amount of solar...
The use of techno-utopian narratives to further corporate control

The use of techno-utopian narratives to further corporate control

Techno-utopianism (n.) − any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfil one or another utopian ideal. It is tempting to dismiss techno-utopian views as the realm of fringe...
Geopiracy: Patent law, climate change, and geoengineering

Geopiracy: Patent law, climate change, and geoengineering

Patent law is a regime of intellectual property, which provides exclusive rights regarding scientific inventions, which are novel, inventive, and useful. There has been much debate over the limits of patentable subject matter relating to emerging technologies. The...
National Academy of Sciences backs untested technologies in the face of climate inaction

The New Sorcerer’s Apprentices?

Climate scientists have watched with mounting alarm as carbon dioxide concentrations have increased relentlessly. The anxiety has deepened each year as it has become clearer that the range of emissions paths mapped out by experts in the 1990s and early 2000s were...