June 2022
Sunshades in space could help alleviate Earth’s climate crisis
... exist. The time is right to reinvigorate O’Neill’s vision to address life in the anthropocene. Climate change is driven by global warming caused by an imbalance in Earth’s energy budget. Energy enters the Earth system from the Sun, and is radiated...
02 February 2022
Global warming trend shows no sign of abating
... guide communities throughout the world, helping humanity confront climate and mitigate its devastating effects.” The global warming trend is due to human activities that have increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Arctic sea ice may be monitored during AMSR2 operations, which would be a significant event demonstrating the impact of global warming. Monitoring greenhouse gases Japan has been tackling the challenge of monitoring greenhouse gases (GHG) from space...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... parasol, established a bit sunward of the L1 Lagrangian point, ~1.5 X 109 m sun-ward of Earth, with the purpose of countering global warming by slightly reducing the amount of sunlight hitting the planet. Such a parasol might cool the planet by the...
18 December 2020
Experiment to dim sunlight with chalk dust under review
...In an attempt to determine if long-lived reflective particles placed into Earth’s upper atmosphere could diminish global warming by blocking sunlight, scientists at Harvard University are proposing a stratospheric balloon experiment to test just that...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... development. “Humankind may be facing an imminent decision about the future of this blue marble,” he said. “Global warming, exhaustion of natural resources and worldwide pollution may be spelling out an inconvenient truth necessitating interstellar...
