New article in Wired by Ryan Singel about the “Yes We Scan” campaign.
Singel writes:
“But now, Malamud is campaigning to be The Man.
Or, more accurately, the chief printer for The Man.”
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“Given Malamud’s ability to wear down government bureaucracies, the Obama administration might do well to save themselves the trouble. Malamud will be the nation’s public printer — it’s just a question of whether he’ll be rogue or legit.”
From the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, a new strategy in fighting global warming:
“The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?”
By David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, and Katharine Ricke
“Summary: As climate change accelerates, policymakers may have to consider “geoengineering” as an emergency strategy to cool the planet. Engineering the climate strikes most as a bad idea, but it is time to start taking it seriously.”
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“Although the international scientific community should take the lead in developing a research agenda, social scientists, international lawyers, and foreign policy experts will also have to play a role. Eventually, there will have to be international laws to ensure that globally credible and legitimate rules govern the deployment of geoengineering systems. But effective legal norms cannot be imperiously declared. They must be carefully developed by informed consensus in order to avoid encouraging the rogue forms of geoengineering they are intended to prevent. “
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