{"id":2846,"date":"2012-03-29T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2012-03-29T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:00:34","slug":"a-geoengineering-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2012\/03\/a-geoengineering-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geoengineering Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with Eric Yu yesterday about a project to use <a title=\"good intro at Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goal_modeling\" target=\"_blank\">goal modeling<\/a> as a way of organizing the available knowledge on how to solve a specific problem, and we thought that geo-engineering would make an interesting candidate to try this out on: It&#8217;s controversial, a number of approaches have been proposed, there are many competing claims made for them, and it&#8217;s hard to sort through such claims.<\/p>\n<p>So, I thought I would gather together the various resources I have on geo-engineering:<\/p>\n<p>Introductory Overviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"What is Geoengineering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoengineering.ox.ac.uk\/what-is-geoengineering\/what-is-geoengineering\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is Geoengineering?<\/a> at The Oxford Geoengineering Program&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Geoblog at the Oxford Martin School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoengineering.ox.ac.uk\/geoblog\/home\/?\" target=\"_blank\">Geoblog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/2008\/images\/geoengineering_diagram_big.jpg\">Schematic of the main proposals<\/a> (from an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/news\/newsreleases\/2008\/NR-08-05-04.html\">article at Lawrence Livermore Labs<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/2010\/02\/nine-geoengineering-strategies\/\">A schematic with more details on cost, timescale and likely effectiveness<\/a> (from Next Nature)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short commentaries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Nature Climate Change Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/climatefeedback\/2009\/01\/geoengineering_by_the_numbers_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geoengineering by the Numbers<\/a>, by Oliver Morton<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Nature, 29 April 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/090429\/full\/4581097a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Crunch: Great White Hope<\/a> by Oliver Morton<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Steffen in WorldChanging\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/009784.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geoengineering and the New Climate Denialism<\/a> by Alex Steffen<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\" href=\"http:\/\/climate.envsci.rutgers.edu\/pdf\/20Reasons.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">20 Reasons why Geoengineering may be a bad idea<\/a> by Alan Robock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Eli's book at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/HmkMie\" target=\"_blank\">Hack the Planet<\/a> by Eli Kintisch<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Jeff's book at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/HuGwr5\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cool the Planet <\/a>by Jeff Goodell<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"james' book on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/HoPMSn\" target=\"_blank\">Fixing the Sky<\/a> by James Fleming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Specific studies \/ papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caldeira K, Wood L. <a title=\"Caldeira &amp; Wood, 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18757275\" target=\"_blank\">Global and Arctic climate engineering: numerical model studies<\/a>. <em>Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences<\/em>. 2008;366(1882):4039-56.<\/li>\n<li>Lenton TM, Vaughan NE. <a title=\"Lenton &amp; Vaughn, 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net\/9\/2559\/2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options<\/a>. <em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions<\/em>. 2009;9(1):2559-2608.<\/li>\n<li>Blackstock JJ, Long JCS. <a title=\"Blackstock &amp; Long, 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/327\/5965\/527.full\" target=\"_blank\">The Politics of Geoengineering<\/a>. <em>Science<\/em>. 2010;327:527.<\/li>\n<li>Schmidt H, Alterskj\u00e6r K, Bou Karam D, et al. <a title=\"Schmidt et al 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earth-syst-dynam-discuss.net\/3\/31\/2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can a reduction of solar irradiance counteract CO<sub>2<\/sub>-induced climate change? \u2013 Results from four Earth system models<\/a>. <em>Earth System Dynamics Discussions<\/em>. 2012;3(1):31-72.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with Eric Yu yesterday about a project to use goal modeling as a way of organizing the available knowledge on how to solve a specific problem, and we thought that geo-engineering would make an interesting candidate to try this out on: It&#8217;s controversial, a number of approaches have been proposed, there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}