Integrating physical, engineering and social sciences to construct a framework for assessing effectiveness and side effects of geoengineering proposals.
Members of the Public Deliberate Geoengineering - Press release from Cardiff University
NERC and EPSRC research projects are beginning to answer some of the most important questions about geoengineering....
Press Statement from IAGP researchers at Cardiff University now available.
Cooling effect of sulphur emissions is short-lived
Prof Piers Forster comments in a recent Daily Telegraph article on the masking of CO2-induced global warming by sulphur emissions from power plants in China.
"It needs to be emphasised that any masking is short-lived and the increased CO2 from the very same coal will remain in the atmosphere for many decades and dominate the long-term warming.”
Planting trees makes for brighter, whiter clouds...
.. so says IAGP Postgraduate Researcher Catherine Scott, who has recently been discussing her research with Planet Earth Online.
To listen to the interview and for a full text transcript visit the Planet Earth Online website (at 14 mins).
Piers Forster interviewed by BBC News on cloud whitening
"Climate ‘technical fix’ may yield warming, not cooling" comments IAGP Principal Investigator, Piers Forster.
(BBC Online, 06/04/2011). Whitening clouds by spraying them with seawater, proposed as a ‘technical fix’ for climate change, needs more research before trialling.
Relevant Publications
- A balance between radiative forcing and climate feedback in the modeled 20th century temperature response
- Climate change impacts on future photovoltaic and concentrated solar power energy output
- Géo-ingénier ie du climat perspectives britanniques
- Are response function representations of the global carbon cycle ever interpretable?
- Visualization approaches for communicating real-time flood forecasting level and inundation information
- Geographical variations in the effectiveness and side effects of deep ocean carbon sequestration
