Open AccessAGU Adopts Position Statement on Geoengineering, a Hot Topic in Congress and Elsewhere
Author(s) -
Chell Kaitlin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2010eo160012
Subject(s) - geoengineering , position statement , political science , position (finance) , statement (logic) , climate change , subject (documents) , environmental ethics , law , library science , computer science , business , oceanography , philosophy , medicine , family medicine , finance , geology
The AGU Council's adoption last December of the American Meteorological Society's position statement, “Geoengineering the Climate System,” is timely. Within the past few months, geoengineering has surfaced as a hot‐button field of study that may hold potential solutions to mitigating global climate change. Congress currently is debating the subject of geoengineering as well as increasing the funding for geoengineering research. The first‐ever series of geoengineering hearings on Capitol Hill recently have been held by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology.