12.085 | Spring 2008 | Undergraduate

Seminar in Environmental Science

Readings

Bengtsson, Lennart. “Geo-engineering to Confine Climate Change: Is it at all Feasible?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 229-234.

Cicerone, Ralph J. “Geoengineering: Encouraging Research and Overseeing Implementation.” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 221-226.

Crutzen, Paul J. “Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolve a Policy Dilemma?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 211-219.

Keith, D. W. “Geoengineering the Climate: History and prospect.” Annual Review of Energy and Environment 25 (2000): 245-284.

Kiehl, Jeffrey T. “Geoengineering Climate Change: Treating the symptom over the cause?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 227-228.

Lawrence, Mark G. “The Geoengineering Dilemma: To Speak or Not to Speak.” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 245-248.

MacCracken, Michael C. “Geoengineering: Worthy of Cautious Evaluation?” Climatic Change 77 (2006): 235-243.

Teller, E., L. Wood, and R. Hyde. “Global Warming and Ice Ages: I. Prospects for Physics Based Modulation of Global Change.” Livermore, CA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Report: UCRL-JC-128157, 1997.

Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, “Geoengineering.” In Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1992, chapter 28, pp. 433-364 and appendix Q, pp. 817-835.

Broad, W. J. “How to Cool a Planet (Maybe).” New York Times, 27 June 2006.

MacCracken, Michael C. “Geoengineering the Climate.” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Report: UCRL-JC-108014.

Michaelson, J. “Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project.” Stanford Environmental Law Journal 17 (1998):73-140.

Dyson, Freeman J. “Can We Control the Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere?” Energy 2 (1977): 287-291.

Flannery, B. P., H. Kheshgi, G. Marland, and M. C. MacCracken. “Geoengineering Climate.” In Engineering Response to Global Climate Change. Edited by R. G. Watts. Boca Raton, Lewis Publishers, 1997, pp. 379-427.

Course Info

As Taught In
Spring 2008
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples