http://publishing.royalsociety.org/index.cfm?page=1814
Note that several of the papers in the journal Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society Part A are available online at their website.
Geoscale engineering to avert dangerous climate change
Editors: Brian Launder and Michael Thompson
It is now recognised that the developed world is struggling to meet its
carbon-reduction targets, while emissions by China and India have soared.
Meanwhile, signs suggest that the climate is even more sensitive to atmospheric
CO2 levels than was previously thought.
Frustrated by the delays of politicians, scientists (including some at the
highest levels) have for a number of years been proposing major 'last minute'
schemes that might be needed if it were suddenly shown that the climate was in
a state of imminent collapse. These geo–scale interventions are undoubtedly
risky: but the time may come when they are universally perceived to be less
risky than doing nothing.
For these reasons, it seems a good time to draw together a collection of these
macro–engineering options, and to subject them to critical appraisal by
acknowledged experts in the field. Emphasis is given to strategies for carbon
sequestration, and albedo management to reduce the net amount of solar energy
impacting and being retained by the Earth.
As a useful building block for this Theme, we have drawn particularly on a core
of (updated) papers that were presented at a meeting at the Newton Institute
(Cambridge) on climate engineering.
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Office.
Articles
Articles available online via FirstCite
Preface
Brian Lauder, J. Michael T. Thompson
Geoengineering: could we or should we make it work?
Stephen Schneider
Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission
trends
Kevin Anderson, Alice Bows
A geophysiologist’s thoughts on geoengineering
James Lovelock
Coping with carbon: a near-term strategy to limit carbon dioxide
emissions from power stations
Paul Breeze
Carrbon neutral hydrocarbons
Frank Zeman, David Keith
Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geoengineering? EXiS - FREE
ONLINE
Richard Lampitt, Eric Achterberg, Thomas Anderson, Alan Hughes,Debora
Iglesias-Rodriguez, Boris Kelly-Gerreyn, Mike Lucas, Ekaterina Popova, Richard
Sanders, John Shepherd, Denise Smythe-Wright, Andrew Yool
The next generation of iron fertilization
Victor Smetacek, Wajih Naqvi
Global temperature stabilization via controlled albedo enhancement of
low-level maritime clouds
John Latham, Philip Rasch, Chih-Chieh Chen, Laura Kettles, Alan Gadian,
Andrew Gettleman, Hugh Morrison, Keith Bower
Sea-going hardware for the cloud albedo method of reversing global
warming EXiS - FREE ONLINE
Stephen Salter, Graham Sortino, John Latham
An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate
aerosols
Philip Rasch; Simone Tilmes, Richard Turco, Alan Robock, Luke Oman,
Chih-Chieh Chen, Georgiy Stenchikov, Rolando Garcia
Global and Arctic climate engineering: numerical model studies EXiS -
FREE ONLINE
Ken Caldeira and Lowell Wood
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