Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.

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Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening like a clamshell outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.

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The risks of reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the atmosphere on that scale would be as obvious and immediate as the benefits.

NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

There are only two ways to genuinely solve the problem: by drastically reducing emissions or by removing the CO2 from the atmosphere.

NEWYORKER: The Climate Fixers

Politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have embraced clean coal as fundamental to their energy policy, but even clean coal plants will take five to ten years to have much of an impact on the environment by reducing the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.

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The ocean also absorbs almost 25% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from human activities each year, greatly reducing the impact of this greenhouse gas on the climate, while becoming more acidic in the process.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme, reducing black carbon and ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, especially in the Arctic countries of America, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, could cut warming in the Arctic by two-thirds over the next three decades.

ECONOMIST: Climate change in the Arctic