Dear Parminder,
I agree that it is worrying that the term Geo-Engineering is now being used for climate intervention. I have made the point to a number of people involved in the climate field that there is this clash of terminology and suggest they refer specifically to "Climate Geo-Engineering" to avoid confusion. Perhaps this is something that FedIGS as the Federation of International GEO-ENGINEERING Societies could raise and I am copying in Professor van Impe, President of FedIGS, who might have views on this.
Best wishes
David Toll
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Dr David Toll
School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Durham University
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Sent: 20 January 2010 11:57
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Subject: GeoEngineering
Dear Colleagues,
This term is now used to describe human intervention to offset global carbon
emissions sometimes also called "climate engineeering" using methods like solar
radiation management (SRM) or carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
Could colleagues explain how this term came about?
There is also the use of terms like geo-engineering, geologic engineering and
geoengineering by engineers. Could colleagues "clear up the air" so to speak
on this issue.
Thank you.
Regards,
Parminder Singh
Researcher
Malaysia
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