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Cooling the world with crops

Dr Joy Singarayer, speaking at the Royal Society's Discussion Meeting: Geoengineering - taking control of our planet's climate. ... Planting reflective crops that would send a small percentage of the sun’s light and heat back into space is one

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Stratospheric controlled perturbation experiment: a small-scale experiment to improve understanding of the risks of…

Dec 28, 2014 - Although solar radiation management (SRM) through stratospheric aerosol methods has the potential to mitigate impacts of climate change, our current knowledge of stratospheric processes suggests that these methods may entail significant risks. In

John A. Dykema, David W. Keith, James G. Anderson, Debra Weisenstein

Solar radiation management governance

Solar radiation management governance. This initiative aims to ensure that any geoengineering research that goes ahead, inside or outside the laboratory, is environmentally sound. ... It reviews the different perspectives and governance possibilities,

Cooling the world with crops

Europe and North America’s massive agricultural plantations could be harnessed to cool the globe in the face of global warming according to Dr Joy Singarayer, speaking at the Royal Society's Discussion Meeting: Geoengineering - taking control

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

The runaway greenhouse: implications for future climate change, geoengineering and planetary atmospheres

Sep 13, 2012 - The ultimate climate emergency is a ‘runaway greenhouse’: a hot and water-vapour-rich atmosphere limits the emission of thermal radiation to space, causing runaway warming. Warming ceases only after the surface reaches approximately 1400 K and

Colin Goldblatt, Andrew J. Watson

Seven Days in Science 14 January 2010

Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, which is edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, is now available in bookshops. An extract of the text is available at TimesOnline.

Seven Days in Science 14 January 2010

The exhibition will run until 31 January 2010. Next week. A public lecture on geoengineering will be held at the Royal Society on Tuesday 19 January. ... The lecture Geoengineering: A Brave New World?, chaired by John Shepherd FRS, will introduce the

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Regional climate change mitigation with crops: context and assessment

Sep 13, 2012 - The intention of this review is to place crop albedo biogeoengineering in the wider picture of climate manipulation. Crop biogeoengineering is considered within the context of the long-term modification of the land surface for agriculture over

J. S. Singarayer, T. Davies-Barnard

Journal - Biology Letters

Accelerating the carbon cycle: the ethics of enhanced weathering

Apr 30, 2017 - Enhanced weathering, in comparison to other geoengineering measures, creates the possibility of a reduced cost, reduced impact way of decreasing atmospheric carbon, with positive knock-on effects such as decreased oceanic acidity. We argue that

H. Lawford-Smith, A. Currie

Journal - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geoengineering?

Aug 29, 2008 - The oceans sequester carbon from the atmosphere partly as a result of biological productivity. Over much of the ocean surface, this productivity is limited by essential nutrients and we discuss whether it is likely that sequestration can be enhanced

R.S Lampitt, E.P Achterberg, T.R Anderson, J.A Hughes, M.D Iglesias-Rodriguez, B.A Kelly-Gerreyn, M Lucas, E.E Popova, R Sanders, J.G Shepherd, D Smythe-Wright, A Yool