Geoengineering: The Potential Role of Solar Radiation Management Schemes
Published May 1, 2010
American University School of International Service
Global Environmental Politics
The U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology has held a series of hearings over the past year on climate geoengineering. The recent testimony of Dr. Philip Rasch of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would be a very good class reading for a geoengineering module because it explores a number of important issues, including the potential cost of such schemes, the contours of research and deployment, potential time lags in impacts, and a good explanation of the mechanisms of the two primary solar radiation management, stratospheric sulfate aerosol and tropospheric cloud seeding.
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