Geoengineering has long been the province of kooks, but as the difficulty of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has become harder to ignore, it is slowly emerging as an option of last resort.

地球工程的研究由来已久，不过从事这项研究的都是些科学怪人。但是减缓温室效应的工作越发刻不容缓，它的难度也不容忽视。而地球工程也因此成为了崛起虽然缓慢，但是却是确实有效的终极手段。

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In 2008, Brighton band The Kooks recorded their second album at the studio, naming the LP Konk.

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The Kooks saw the formation of a Jewish state not as a usurpation of tradition but as athalta degeula, an active beginning of redemption.

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