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Rasch, Philip J., Simone Tilmes, Richard P. Turco, Alan Robock, Luke Oman, Chih-Chieh (Jack) Chen, Georgiy L. Stenchikov, and Rolando R. Garcia, 2008: An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulfate aerosols. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A., doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0131, published online, 31 pp. http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RaschPhilTrans.pdf Alan Alan Robock, Professor II Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222 Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644 14 College Farm Road E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Alvia Gaskill wrote: > 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. > > To pre-order a print copy of this issue, ou in October, contact our Sales > 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 > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
