Climate Engineering

Source Transsolar Climate Engineering Co., Stuttgart, Germany. 

See also Barometry Climate Engineering Climate Modeling Climatology Measurement and Units Meteorology Remote Sensing Temperature Measurement. 

An increasing number of universities are exploring the potential of climate engineering. Some... 

Human activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, is responsible for the release of some 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the Earth s atmosphere every year. Most climate engineering proposals fall into one of two fundamentally different approaches-the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or the reflection of solar radiation from Earth s atmosphere or surface hack into space. 

Climate engineers claim they can cool the planet and reverse ice-sheet melting hy mimicking a natural volcanic eruption through the release of sulfate aerosols into the Earth s stratosphere, where they will reflect sunlight hack into space. 

In addition, geoengineering technology may ignite tensions between nations The ethical ramifications of climate engineering are unclear, and significant confusion and uncertainty exists regarding who should... 

The Royal Society. Geoengineering the Climate Science, Governance, and Uncertainty. London The Ro) Society, 2009. Twelve experts in the fields of science, economics, law, and social science conducted this study of the main techniques of climate engineering, focusing on how well they might work and examining possible consequences. 

See also Air-Quality Monitoring Atmospheric Sciences Climate Engineering Climatology Industrial Pollution Control Meteorology. 

Wood, G. (2009). Re-engineering the earth. The Atlantic, July/August. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from http //www.theatlantic.eom/doc/200907/climate-engineering... 

Dickinson, R.E., 1996 Climate Engineering. A Review of Aerosol Approaches to Changing the Global Energy Balance , in Climatic Change, 33, 279-290. 

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