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GeoEngineering Assessment and Research (Gear) at University of East Anglia

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Sam Carana

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Mar 11, 2009, 7:37:36 AM3/11/09
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The GeoEngineering Assessment and Research initiative (Gear) has been
set up at University of East Anglia (UEA) in the U.K. to assess the
projects that have been suggested. Among the geoengineering solutions
that have been proposed are putting mirrors into orbit to reflect
sunlight away from Earth, and encouraging the growth of plankton by
pouring nutrients into the oceans.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the UEA's Tyndall Centre for
Climate Change Research, and Professor Trevor Davies, one of the
centre's founders, regard geoengineering schemes as a potential
insurance policy.

“We all hope that Copenhagen will succeed but I think it will fail. We
won't come up with a global agreement,” Professor Anderson said. “I
think we will negotiate, there will be a few fudges and there will be
a very weak daughter of Kyoto. I doubt it will be significantly based
on the science of climate change.”

“An increasing number of scientists are talking about Plan B now, the
big, global geoengineering things,” said Professor Davies, Pro-Vice
Chancellor of UEA. “That's one of the reasons we've set up this centre
- not that we think many of the aspects are sensible but because we
think it's necessary to assess them.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5870729.ece
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