Sentence examples for manipulate the climate from inspiring English sources

Specter explains: "Geoengineering is the attempt to deliberately manipulate the climate of the earth to counteract global warming; to intervene in a really big way".

Claims that the imperative of development cannot be impeded by the prospect of global warming are greeted with the assertion that creating inadvertent damage to nature is bad enough, but deliberately attempting to manipulate the climate just to let our old habits prevail is a violation of stewardship and an ethical transgression against the natural world.

Geoengineering – large-scale efforts to manipulate the climate to counteract global warming – has yet to be undertaken, but experts say it's only a matter of time.

The artist Karolina Sobecka takes a do-it-yourself approach to manipulating the climate with her show at the ZERO1 Garage, a Silicon Valley art-and-technology incubator.

A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Many of applicants suggested ways of manipulating the climate, which also is known as geo-engineering, and which relies on processes like releasing sulfur particles at high altitude to produce a haze blocking the sun's rays, or using the oceans to absorb more carbon dioxide.

The Bush administration has manipulated the climate of intense anxiety that arose after 9/11/01 and used the "war on terror" as a justification for invading a sovereign nation, condoning torture, suspending due process of law for prisoners, and ignoring (or worsening) a host of other problems that the electorate prioritizes.

Even if it were to work, deliberately manipulating the climate could have unforeseen negative consequences down the road.

Some scientists point out that manipulating the climate in one part of the world could have consequences elsewhere.

"The idea is that we're manipulating the climate across the entire year and looking at how the forest responds," Pamela Templer, a biogeoscientist at Boston University, said.

[presumably this refers to physically manipulating the climate] Even Bill Gates says don't count on it, unless we commit the cash. 5. Why do people question climate change?