Draft:Outline of climate engineering

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. All forms of climate engineering cannot be standalone solutions to climate change, but need to be coupled with other forms of climate change mitigation. 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?

Geoengineering can be described as all of the following:

• a branch of engineering –

Persons influential in geoengineering

• 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 –