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The radical ideas to combat climate change

SEP 07, 2008
Physics Today
The Guardian : Artificial clouds to reflect away sunlight, creating colossal blooms of oceanic algae and the global use of synthetic carbon-neutral transport fuels are just three of the climate transforming technologies in need of urgent investigation, according to leading scientists in a special edition of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . The eminent group argue that, with governments failing to grasp the urgent need for measures to combat dangerous climate change, radical â and possibly dangerous â solutions must now be seriously considered.

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