The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geoengineering:
Climate engineering (or geoengineering) is an umbrella term for both carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation modification, when applied at a planetary scale. However, these two processes have very different characteristics. For this reason, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change no longer uses this overarching term. Carbon dioxide removal approaches are part of climate change mitigation. Solar radiation modification is reflecting some sunlight (solar radiation) back to space. Some publications place passive radiative cooling into the climate engineering category. This technology increases the Earth's thermal emittance. The media tends to use climate engineering also for other technologies such as glacier stabilization, ocean liming, and iron fertilization of oceans. The latter would modify carbon sequestration processes that take place in oceans.
What type of thing is geoengineering?
editGeoengineering can be described as all of the following:
- a branch of engineering –
Branches of geoengineering
editHistory of geoengineering
editGeneral geoengineering concepts
editGeoengineering organizations
edit- Climate Justice Alliance – Coalition opposing geoengineering as incompatible with climate justice
- NOAA Geoengineering Program – U.S. government agency conducting geoengineering-related research