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ucs.org
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https://www.ucs.org/resources/what-climate-engineering
Also known as "geoengineering," climate engineering is the intentional large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system to counter climate change. Given the daunting challenge of keeping the rise in global temperatures in check, some researchers are also working to understand the risks and potentials of “geoengineering” or climate engineering technologies. It includes techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and technologies to rapidly cool the Earth by reflecting solar energy back to space. Solar geoengineering technologies cool the earth by reflecting sunlight back into space—but they pose many risks, challenges, and uncertainties. Some climate scientists want to start atmospheric field experiments with sun-reflective aerosols and other solar geoengineering technologies to further understand their risks and potential benefits. They warn of the risk, or “moral hazard,” that investments in solar geoengineering may diminish efforts at reducing net carbon emissions through proven and affordable means like renewable energy, and that they also may increase geopolitical conflict over “who decides” what the climate goals of deploying SRM would be.
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en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth's climate system intended to counteract human-caused climate change.
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geoengineeringmonitor.org
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https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/what-is-geoengineering
Geoengineering refers to large-scale interventions in the Earth’s oceans, soils and atmosphere with the aim of reducing the effects of climate change, usually temporarily. The two main categories of proposed geoengineering techniques are:. * **Solar Radiation Modification (SRM):** SRM techniques, which are also referred to as solar geoengineering, attempt to deal with the symptoms of climate change by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth or allowing more heat back into space. In addition, various **weather modification** techniques exist, such as cloud seeding, which aim to change weather and precipitation patterns without changing the climate more broadly. Climate engineering proposals represent efforts to manipulate the climate on a global scale, but each proposed technique brings its own environmental and social impacts. While geoengineering techniques and technologies vary in scope and scale (see: Technologies), **a few important characteristics apply to all of them**:. * See our geoengineering technologies page for specifics on the different schemes.
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genevaenvironmentnetwork.org
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https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/climate-altering-t…
Climate-altering technologies and measures (CATM) – also sometimes referred to as climate or geo-engineering – refer to a broad set of methods and technologies that aim to deliberately alter the climate system in order to alleviate the impacts of climate change (IPCC, 2014). At the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference (COP23), experts expressed the need to discuss the governance of CATM, especially in relation to stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), due to the great uncertainties and potential side effects of these measures (UN News, 2017). These include the UNEP Independent Expert Review on solar radiation modification research and deployment, the report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the impact of new technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment of human rights (A/HRC/54/47), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity on certain restrictions on solar insolation activities that may affect biodiversity (CBD/DEC/X/33/8w), and mentions of SRM in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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sciencedirect.com
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221146451200036X
by A Welch · 2012 · Cited by 15 — Potential geoengineering methods include solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal techniques that are largely theoretical and remain untested.
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science.org
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https://www.science.org/content/article/geoengineering-fight-climate-change-i…
Researchers have proposed various methods to curb the effects of climate change by reflecting sunlight away from the planet. Stratospheric
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geoengineering.global
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https://geoengineering.global/
In our civilization’s effort to slow down and stop Climate Change and reverse Global Warming, geoengineering should not be considered the only solution, but rather an important part of a comprehensive, integrated, international program that mitigates the effects of Global Warming, restores our biosphere and addresses the root causes of Climate Change (i.e., the use of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions, human population growth, consumptive lifestyles, unsustainable practices, degradation of natural ecosystems, etc.). An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P.
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climatejusticealliance.org
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https://climatejusticealliance.org/geoengineering/
# Geoengineering 101. One characteristic that is common to the geoengineering approach is the belief that we can use technology to reverse or detain climate change without having to cut carbon emissions by eliminating fossil fuel use. ## **Geoengineering Experiments**. Several dangerous geoengineering experiments are already underway, with potentially dire consequences for the earth. In May 2020, a small group of Australian geoengineers3 carried out a risky geoengineering technique – brightening clouds to reflect solar energy back into space – and presented it as a plan to save the Great Barrier Reef. The experiment contravenes the UN Convention on Biodiversity, which in 2010, established a moratorium on geoengineering activities until “a global, transparent and effective control and regulatory mechanisms… in accordance with the precautionary approach can be put in place.”5. The proposed Ice911 Project wants to experiment on Inupiaq and Gwich’n territories in the Arctic region by polluting the ice and oceans with tiny glass beads.