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Climate engineering: exploring nuances and consequences of deliberately altering the Earth’s energy budget Editors: John Latham, Philip J. Rasch and Brian Launder In the light of the steady, unrelenting rise in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere leading to global warming, Climate Engineering (CE) has been proposed to limit the rise in our planet’s temperature. This theme issue examines some of the challenges linked with the application of three strategies for CE. These strategies modify the Earth’s radiation budget, and produce global and regional impacts, the latter being especially important for critically sensitive regions such as the Arctic. Three strategies are considered: (1) increasing Stratospheric Sulphur Particles to mimic the effects of volcanic eruptions, reflecting more sunlight back into space; (2), Marine Cloud Brightening, in which low-level oceanic clouds are seeded with salt particles from evaporated sea-water to increase cloud droplet numbers, making them reflect more sunlight; (3) Cirrus Seeding, which causes the highest atmospheric clouds to thin, facilitating the emission of heat/energy from the Earth’s surface. This volume explores scientific and engineering issues connected to the three methods, describes possible field experiments that can be used to improve understanding of those processes, and examines societal issues associated with the testing of CE and its impact on the planet. This issue will be published online on 17 November 2014. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
