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Is it 'geoengineering' or 'hacking the climate?'
The Paris Agreements won't be enough to reverse global warming, whether President Trump pulls the US out or not. Is it time to try altering the atmosphere by what's called "geoengineering?" On this archived edition of To the Point, we hear about unintended consequences, international relations… and ethics.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPhoto: Bayside Picnic Area after Hurricane Sandy (NPS Climate Change Response)
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3 storiesPentagon delays rule to 'OK' transgender troops
President Obama and the Pentagon ordered America's armed services to welcome transgender recruits, but the plan is now being delayed. President Trump's Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis is giving the chiefs of staff another six months to determine if transgender enlistments will affect the "readiness of lethality" of the services.
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A raging dispute among climate scientists is breaking into the open. Could they slow global warming by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, or are the unintended consequences potentially so dangerous that even experimentation should be prohibited?
Read the story33 minAmerica divided by front-row and back-row
Chris Arnade grew up in what he now calls "The Front Row." With a PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University, he joined Salomon Brothers. But five years ago, in his late 40s, he finally rejected Wall Street values. He took a buyout from Citigroup, and moved his family from Manhattan to upstate New York.
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