Royal Society to look at planetary intervention

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They may sound like science fiction, but geo-engineering projects could save us from runaway climate change, says Royal Society

The Royal Society is launching a major new study into planetary scale geo-engineering projects amid fears that it may already be too late to prevent runaway climate change. Geo-engineering projects...

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