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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 suggested form of a suite of potential
Sep 13, 2012 - The climate change that we are experiencing now is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases due to human activities, including burning fossil fuels, agriculture and deforestation. There is now widespread belief that a global warming of greater than
J. G. Shepherd
Aug 29, 2008 - Schemes to modify large-scale environment systems or control climate have been proposed for over 50 years to (i) increase temperatures in high latitudes, (ii) increase precipitation, (iii) decrease sea ice, (iv) create irrigation opportunities, or (v
Stephen H Schneider
Back then conversations revolved around geoengineering – techniques to reduce global warming by intervening in the Earth’s climate system – and whether a ban on geoengineering research should be adopted by the ... Back in Hyderabad in 2012 a
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
Aug 29, 2008 - We provide an overview of geoengineering by stratospheric sulphate aerosols. The state of understanding about this topic as of early 2008 is reviewed, summarizing the past 30 years of work in the area, highlighting some very recent studies using
Philip J Rasch, Simone Tilmes, Richard P Turco, Alan Robock, Luke Oman, Chih-Chieh (Jack) Chen, Georgiy L Stenchikov, Rolando R Garcia
The use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and geoengineering, for example, could have profound impacts on society and the world, which should be considered openly.
Aug 29, 2008 - The Earth is now recognized as a self-regulating system that includes a reactive biosphere; the system maintains a long-term steady-state climate and surface chemical composition favourable for life. We are perturbing the steady state by changing
James Lovelock
Dec 28, 2014 - One of the greatest controversies in geoengineering policy concerns the next stages of solar radiation management research, and when and how it leaves the laboratory. Citing numerous risks and concerns, a range of prominent commentators have called
Andy Parker
Sep 13, 2012 - Fundamental changes to marine chemistry are occurring because of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Ocean acidity (H+ concentration) and bicarbonate ion concentrations are increasing, whereas carbonate ion concentrations are
Phillip Williamson, Carol Turley
