Focus on geoengineering
Research, ethics, opinion and more
Opinion
Geoengineering: no need for dedicated research
Mar 8, 2012 1 comment
Ken Caldeira recommends study of geoengineering alongside existing programmes, and no research on implementation techniques
Geoengineering: the most reluctant research field?
Nov 26, 2010
Scientists at Royal Society meeting stress that geoengineering is a last resort
Testing times for geoengineering
Feb 8, 2010
Solar-radiation measurement techniques would be impossible to trial on small scale, say scientists
Engineering the climate
Sep 2, 2009
Peter Cox and Hazel Jeffery call for the taboo on geoengineering to be lifted.
AGU meeting looks for answers
Dec 14, 2007
Arctic sea ice, climate tipping points and geoengineering were just a few of the themes under scrutiny in San Francisco.
News
Solar geoengineering coalitions have an incentive to exclude – with VIDEO
Apr 1, 2013
Politics of solar radiation management fundamentally different to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, where problem is preventing free riders, say researchers
Olivine geoengineering could affect marine life
Jan 22, 2013
Adding mineral to oceans found to alter plankton growth
Commercial aircraft 'not viable strategy' for geoengineering
Oct 3, 2012
Flight paths mainly in northern mid-latitudes and at too low a level for injection of sulphur into stratosphere
Geoengineering 'comparatively inexpensive'
Aug 31, 2012
Pumping aerosols into the atmosphere is relatively cheap, say researchers
From forestry to geoengineering, silicate weathering counts
Jun 27, 2012
Researchers find estimates of rock weathering rate can vary widely
Geoengineering balloon trial cancelled
May 30, 2012
SPICE project will be limited to lab experiments
Lack of detail spoils geoengineering schemes
Mar 13, 2012
Poorly understood concepts mean climate-modifying tools remain far beyond reach, said Richard Turco of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Environmental Research Letters
ERL Focus Issue contents
Modification of cirrus clouds to reduce global warming
David L Mitchell and William Finnegan
Climate engineering and the risk of rapid climate change
Andrew Ross and H Damon Matthews
Researching geoengineering: should not or could not?
Martin Bunzl
Of mongooses and mitigation: ecological analogues to geoengineering
H Damon Matthews and Sarah E Turner
Toward ethical norms and institutions for climate engineering research
David R Morrow, Robert E Kopp, and Michael Oppenheimer
On the possible use of geoengineering to moderate specific climate change impacts
Michael C MacCracken
Blog
Geoengineering – a last-minute response to climate change?
Sep 19, 2009
Geoengineering is a pretty inelegant “end of pipe” approach that is best seen as an ancillary option, says Dave Elliott.
The dangerous vagary in ‘geoengineering’
Sep 3, 2009
The term is too broad and could confuse, argues James Dacey.
AGU meeting: to geoengineer or not to geoengineer?
Dec 19, 2008
From sulphate aerosols to cloud modification, submissions to this AGU session were double those the year before.