Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world’s oceans

By Heed Harris

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SOME of the enviornment’s richest of us are funding study that would insist the oceans to wrestle native climate trade. The root is welcomed by some researchers, but others caution that there may be an absence of international agreement about geoengineering the planet in such options. Must billionaires be in a space to initiate tinkering with the native climate with out asking the relaxation of us?

Closing September, scientists, policy-makers and funders met in California to debate an design to insist an emerging suite of applied sciences identified as ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). This targets to cut again …