Geoengineering Gets a Hearing in Congress — and in the U.K., Too
Geoengineering — the concept of deliberately manipulating the earth’s climate system to counteract climate change — made its debut in Congress this week, which I suppose makes it officially “mainstream.” The House’s Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on geoengineering — the first serious congressional review of the subject, according to committee chairman Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn. An equivalent committee within the UK’s House of Commons will hold similar hearings as part of a partnership with the U.S. Congress. Gordon stressed the hearings should not be misconstrued as an endorsement of any geoengineering activity and its timing was unrelated to pending negotiations in Copenhagen. “But this issue is too important for us to keep our heads in the sand….
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