geoengineering
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- noun
- /ˌdʒiːoʊˈɛndʒɪnɪrɪŋ/
- Specialized
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geoingeniería
- Governments should immediately begin to undertake serious research on geoengineering and help create international norms governing its use.
- geoengineering research
- geoengineering options
- geoengineering scheme
How will we get informed consent from humanity to do geoengineering?
- How will we get informed consent from humanity to do geoengineering?
- And to me that would constitute geoengineering.
- So you should only pull out the the geoengineering fix if it's otherwise unmitigated disaster.
- So, so I could be wrong, but I mean, there have been some efforts to explore solar geoengineering.
- Reforestation is geoengineering, just as deforestation was geoengineering.
- You know, I feel like that that is much more common from the most positive people I've heard about geoengineering.
Examples
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In the past four years, planetary climate modification, or geoengineering, has become the subject of intense inquiry.
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Today, the term "geoengineering" refers to a variety of strategies designed to cool the climate.
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My personal opinion is that we have to keep geoengineering on the table.
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And I tried to think about how geoengineering could change our relationship to what we still call nature.
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Cooling the planet through geoengineering will not, however, fix all of the problems related to climate change.
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Many worry that research on geoengineering will make governments less willing to regulate emissions.
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Climate engineering, sometimes called geoengineering, is the deliberate tempering with Earth's climate in the hope of improving human well-being.
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We take geoengineering to mean: Deliberate, large scale intervention in the Earth´s system.
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And John Holdren, President Obama's science adviser, won't rule out geoengineering "if we get desperate enough."
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Geoengineering aims to combat climate change through innovative technologies that alter the geoengineering.
Synonyms
A way to reduce the causes and effects of climate change
How Interventionist
Surface Forms
Morphology
geoengineering = engineering (semi-transparent) = geo + engineer + ing
The word is transparently formed by adding geo- to engineering.
Etymology
The word geoengineering combines geo- meaning 'earth', like in geography, and engineering meaning 'designing and building', like an engineer. So, geoengineering is an easy way to remember work that uses big technology to change the Earth's climate, for example to try to slow global warming.