News
- Ninth Meeting of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) Beijing Normal University, 15-16 August 20192019-02-15
- Geoengineering the Climate: Impacts and the Developing World 2nd Summer School at Beijing Normal University 12-16 August 20192019-02-15
- John Moore has been interviewed by MIT Technology Review2017-09-11
- John Moore has been interviewed for a podcast on Chinese GE activities2017-09-11
- Summer School in 17-21 July 20172017-04-30
- 13th May SRM Geoengineering Workshop2017-04-14
- New students recruiting2015-08-27
- Workshop in August2015-08-13
WHAT IS GEOENGINEERING?
WHAT IS GEOENGINEERING?
Geoengineering also referred to as climate engineering, is deliberate and large-scale intervention of Earth’s climate system in order to mitigate climate warming. Two kinds of techniques are involved in geoengineering, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). CDR is removing greenhouse gases out of atmosphere and SRM attempts to offset greenhouse effect by reducing solar energy absorption. Emission control is always the first option to mitigate climate warming, and geoengineering could serve as a backup plan. As far as known from pre written essays there are solar technologies as marine cloud brightening, space-based techniques, stratospheric aerosol scattering and cirrus cloud thinning.
Figure 1. Royal Society Report, 2009
WHY WE STUDY GEOENGINEERING, ESPECIALLY SRM? HOW WE DO IT?
WHY WE STUDY GEOENGINEERING, ESPECIALLY SRM? HOW WE DO IT?
In light of the difficulties in achieving emission control, serious consequences of "business as usual" (Fig. 2) and urgency of approaching climatic ‘tipping point’, SRM seems to be the only feasible option mitigating global warming in a short time (Fig. 3), but the uncertainty of basic mechanism and potential impacts of SRM are so huge, that we absolutely can’t do any experiment on our real planet, instead we use computer modeling as our only way to improve our understanding of geoengineering.
OUR MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS (3 THEMES)
OUR MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS (3 THEMES)
1) Mechanism of Geoengineering (GE) and designing GE plans using results given by theme 1 and 22) Modeling how GE plans given by theme 1 mitigate climate warming
3) Impact evaluation and international governance of GE plans of theme 1
OUR RESEARCH TEAM
OUR RESEARCH TEAM
Our research project combines talents of 4 institutions in China, and experts from abroad. All scientists of related field was welcomed to contact us for potential collaboration.
