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Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmospheres pp 765-793 : 02 June 2016 Geoengineering - Guido Visconti Abstract In the last few years, atmospheric physics had been invaded by a growing large number of researchers that got very excited about the possibility of changing artificially the environment to correct what the human beings (consciously or not) are doing to the climate. This very arduous task goes with the name geoengineering. It was invented many years ago in the science fiction literature and was known as terraforming. It was Jack Williamson that first mentioned that word in a science fiction novel of 1942. Then in 1995, Martyn Fogg published a book on terraforming where he gave the term geoengineering for planetary engineering applied to the planet Earth. Planetary engineering is the application of technology for the purpose of influencing the global properties of a planet. In 1992, the National Research Council published a report (Public Implications of Greenhouse Warming) that had a chapter on geoengineering and that could be considered as the institutionalization of the science. A very original consideration for the times was the sentence: It is important to recognize that we are at present involved in a large project of inadvertent “geoengineering” by altering atmospheric chemistry, and it does not seem inappropriate to inquire if there are countermeasures that might be implemented to address the adverse impacts. This is a matter of debate other than a good occasion for research money but also a very good opportunity to apply what we have learned before in this book. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
