Climate Engineering – Technology Assessment
Technical status, future directions, and potential responses
Published July 2011
United States Government Accountability Office
“Climate engineering technologies do not now offer a viable response to global climate change. Experts advocating research to develop and evaluate the technologies believe that research on these technologies is urgently needed or would provide an insurance policy against worst case climate scenarios—but caution that the misuse of research could bring new risks.”
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“Responding to your request that we conduct a technology assessment on proposed technological approaches toward engineering the climate, we examined the current state of climate engineering science and technology, experts’ views of the future of U.S. climate engineering research, and potential public responses to climate engineering. We also discuss in this report key considerations for the use of climate engineering technologies and their policy implications.”
