Experiments in long-range climate control

✍ Scribed by William L. Donn

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 737 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0072-1050
• DOI: 10.1002/gj.3350210307

✦ Synopsis

Extrapolation of the palaeoclimate chronology of the past million years or so seems to leave little doubt that another glacial stage can be expected in the near geologic future. O n a shorter time scale it appears that the increasing greenhouse effect from the use of fossil fuel will raise atmospheric temperature by 2 to 3 "K within a hundred years. The possibility of man's reversing or at least weakening these portentous climate changes is investigated here with the use of a thermodynamic climate model. Preliminary results indicate that the climate effects referred to may be reversible if caught early and certainly suggest that further and more sophisticated attention be given the subject.