Geo-engineering: a real solution to climate change problems?

 From Environmental Research Web - October 03 2008

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It may be possible to partially counteract the global warming associated with greenhouse gas emissions using rudimentary climate engineering techniques. So say Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution and Lowell Wood at the Hoover Institution, both in Stanford, US, who simulated the atmosphere, sea ice and upper ocean to examine the potential effects of artificially reducing incoming solar radiation. The work, which is likely to ignite debate, suggests that a dedicated climate engineering research programme might help reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change in the future.

"Our climate model simulations suggest that if we produce a world with a lot of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, even relatively crude climate engineering could bring the climate closer to how it was before those greenhouse gas emissions," Caldeira told environmentalresearchweb. "It would not be perfect, but it would be pretty good."