So here’s a scenario. CO2 emissions cause global warming. Global warming causes antarctic glaciers to melt. As the glaciers melt, they splinter, dropping icebergs into the ocean. The icebergs are rich in minerals and prove to be floating islands of life — wherever they go, life follows and grows. The life that grows is plankton, […]

While the debate continues about whether the sun might have something to do with the temperature of the planet (not to mention how blasted bright it gets on my back patio on summer afternoons), some scientists are arguing that — irrespective of our nearest star’s role in causing global warming — dealing directly with it […]

Turns out the Sun might have something to do with Global warming after all: A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of […]

Richard Branson is offering a $25 million push prize to somebody who can come up with a way of removing one billion metric tons of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for 10 years. Phil and I know a way it can be done. So, we’ll probably be moving The Speculist headquarters to more […]

Consider all it that it is doing. Amazing. We must find a way to channel this power for good. Of course, the good it may be doing will never be labeled as such. As someone commented, apparently it only causes bad weather.

In our first radio show, Phil brought up an idea for combating the greenhouse gas CO2 that I hadn’t heard before – seeding the oceans with iron. The August edition of Popular Science details several different methods for dealing with Global Warming, but the “iron-the-oceans” idea looks like the most promising. For the record, the […]