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Nature 447, 132-136 (10 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447132a; Published online 9 May 2007; Corrected 10 May 2007
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Climate change: Is this what it takes to save the world?
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- Oliver Morton is Nature's chief news and features editor.
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Long marginalized as a dubious idea, altering the climate through 'geoengineering' has staged something of a comeback. Oliver Morton reports.
In the first week of June 1991, Michael MacCracken, a climate physicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, was attending a small conference in Palm Coast, Florida, to discuss technological approaches to cooling the Earth. There he gave a paper that looked at various approaches that had been suggested in the decades before, from burying carbon dioxide underground to increasing the proportion of sunlight that bounces off hazes in the atmosphere and back into space.
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