Outline of geoengineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geoengineering.

Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry. This field is still in its theoretical stage, although first trials were already conducted (see Iron fertilization) or scheduled but delayed as a result of controversy surrounding the research (see SPICE Project).

Geoengineering defined

Geoengineering can be described as all of the following:

• An academic discipline –
• Branch of engineering –

Branches of geoengineering

• Arctic geoengineering
• Bio-geoengineering

Proposed strategies

• List of proposed geoengineering projects

Carbon dioxide removal

• Carbon dioxide removal – refers to a number of technologies which reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage –
  • Biochar –
  • Ocean nourishment –
  • Enhanced weathering –
• Greenhouse gas remediation –
• Carbon sequestration –
• Iron fertilisation –

Solar radiation management

• Solar radiation management – technologies to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming.
  • Stratospheric sulfur aerosols (geoengineering) –
  • Space sunshade –
  • Cloud reflectivity enhancement –
  • SPICE Project (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) –

Geoengineering organizations

• Climate Decision Making Center of Carnegie Mellon University (CDMC)
• The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Solar Radiation Management Research Governance Initiative (SRMGI)

Geoengineering publications

• Collection of publications about Geoengineering and Climate Change (1964 - today, app. 900 documents), Centre for International Governance Innovation 'CIGI'
• Jeff Goodell: How to Cool the Planet. Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston MA 2010, ISBN 978-0-618-99061-0.
• Eli Kintisch: Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope - or Worst Nightmare - for Averting Climate Catastrophe. Wiley, 2010. ISBN 0-470-52426-X.
• Brian Launder und J. Michael T. Thompson (Hrsg.): Geo-engineering climate change. Environmental necessity or Pandora's box?. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-19803-5

Persons influential in geoengineering

Geoengineers

• Ken Caldeira – an atmospheric scientist who works at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology.
• Paul J. Crutzen –
• John D. Hamaker –
• David Keith (scientist) –
• Klaus Lackner –
• Christopher McKay (planetary scientist) –
• M. Granger Morgan –
• Nathan Myhrvold –
• Steve Rayner –
• Alan Robock –
• Stephen Salter –
• Stephen Schneider –
• Lowell Wood –

See also

• Climate change mitigation
• Carbon sink
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Five Ways to Save the World
• Global warming
• List of proposed geoengineering schemes
• Terraforming
• Virgin Earth Challenge
• Weather control

Sources

• Macnaghten, Phil; Owen, Richard. "Environmental Science: Good Governance for Geoengineering." alt. Nature 479, 293 doi:10.1038/479293a. Published online 16 November 2011. Phil Macnaghten and Richard Owen describe the first attempt to govern a climate-engineering research project. 17 November 2011. (Abstract only.) (subscription required)
• Climate Engineering Kiel Earth Institute and Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University, since Sept 2011
• What the UN ban on geoengineering really means November 1, 2010 by Fred Pearce of New Scientist
• Geoengineering sparks international ban, first-ever congressional report Juliet Eilperin Washington Post October 30, 2010
• Engineering the Climate : Research Needs and Strategies for International Coordination October 2010 report from the U.S. House of Representatives
• Threat of global warming sparks U.S. interest in geoengineering by Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post October 3, 2010
• Re-Engineering the Earth by Graeme Wood of The Atlantic, July 2009
• "The Geoengineering Gambit", Technology Review, Jan. 2010
• 10 Ideas That Are Changing The World: 6.Geoengineering Time (magazine), March 2008
• Geoengineering: 'A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come' discussion on NPR
• We need birth control, not geoengineering April 6, 2010
• Climate Engineering Is Doable, as Long as We Never Stop Wired (magazine), July 2007
• Geoengineering Retrospective Overview of articles on geoengineering by Julia Levitt, Worldchanging, August 2008

Further reading

• Royal Society "Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty." Report. ISBN 978-0-85403-773-5. September, 2009
• Geo-engineering website, describing current methods/proposals done to revert climate change by geo-engineering, by Sam Carana
• Geoengineering links, GeoCrisis annotated list, 2006?
• Geo-engineering in the Southern Ocean, by John Paull, Australian National University, 2009
• 5 ways to save the earth, BBC documentary about geo-engineering, 20 February 2007
• "Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project" by Jay Michaelson, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1998
• Terraforming Earth IV: The Question of Methane August 11, 2005
• "Futuristic fleet of 'cloudseeders'" John Latham BBC News. Feb. 15, 2007
• A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwynne Dyer – video report by Democracy Now!
• Bill Gates' cloud-whitening trials 'a dangerous experiment' May 14, 2010 regarding Bill Gates
• The powerful coalition that wants to engineer the world's climate: Businessmen, scientists and right-wing thinktanks are joining forces to promote 'geo-engineering' ideas to cool the planet's climate September 13, 2010 Clive Hamilton

External links

• Stanford Environmental Law Journal
• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com