Draft:Outline of climate engineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to climate engineering:

Climate engineering (or geoengineering, climate intervention) is the intentional large-scale alteration of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change. The term has been used as an umbrella term for carbon dioxide removal, weather as a weapon, reduction of pole ice and solar radiation modification when applied at a planetary scale. However, these two processes have very different characteristics, and are now often discussed separately. Carbon dioxide removal techniques remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and are part of climate change mitigation. Solar radiation modification is the reflection of some sunlight (solar radiation) back to space to cool the earth. Some publications include passive radiative cooling as a climate engineering technology. The media tends to also use climate engineering 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 climate engineering?

Climate engineering can be described as all of the following:

• an applied science –
  • a branch of engineering –

Glimate engineering organizations

• Climate Justice Alliance – Coalition opposing geoengineering as incompatible with climate justice
• NOAA Geoengineering Program – U.S. government agency conducting geoengineering-related research

Persons influential in climate engineering

• Ken Caldeira –
• Paul J. Crutzen –
• John D. Hamaker –
• David Keith (scientist) –
• Klaus Lackner –
• Christopher McKay –
• Nathan Myhrvold –
• Steve Rayner –
• Stephen Salter –
• Stephen Schneider –
• Lowell Wood –