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sue4e3

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Fri Nov 6, 2015, 06:24 PM Nov 2015

Cooling the Climate with Giant Seaweed Farming [View all]

Australian climate scientist Tim Flannery suggests we could cool the climate with massive seaweed farms to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Geo-engineering is generally considered the last ditch attempt at preventing climate destabilization, one that could create as serious a problem as it solves.

But one climate scientist has detailed some environmentally safe geo-engineering technologies that could be adopted together with the more traditional way of reducing climate change (such as going solar).

Unlike potentially dangerous geo-engineering schemes, like seeding the high atmosphere with a blanket of sulphur, he proposes "third way" solutions.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clayton-b-cornell/cooling-the-climate-with-_b_8486822.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change

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