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Apr 2, 2015 08:00 EDT - Aug 13, 2021 12:00 EDT
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What initiatives, policies, and technologies can counteract the effects of rising greenhouse gases, whether or not emissions are reduced?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defines geoengineering as “intentionally modifying the Earth’s climate at large scale.” Lack of effective action on climate change has led some scientists, chemists and engineers to investigate a variety of technical interventions to counteract some of the effects of rising atmospheric greenhouse gases, without reducing emissions. Geoengineering strategies can operate at a global or local level and commonly fall into one of two broad categories: solar radiation management or carbon dioxide removal.
 

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76 Proposals
Avoid climate disaster by meeting UN IPCC 8/18 Report requirement to remove 12 Gigatons CO2 yearly via array of Direct Air Capture plants.
Increasing the Earth's cloud cover and the planet's albedo in the equatorial zone to counteract global warming, regardless of the cause.
Ocean Assisted Carbon Capture & Reflection uses carbon capture boil-off to grow carbon-feeding Emiliania Huxley in ogliotrophic seas.
Remove all CO2 added to the air since the Industrial Revolution, in 1-10 years using a forest of synthetic trees
Trinkwassergewinnung-Meeresspiegel senken, Wüste bepflanzen, Klima verbessern
OTEC(Offshore Thermal Energy Conversion) brings cold water to the sea surface as an existing technology which could cool some sea surfaces.
Remove trash from ocean, produce drinkable water, create surplus energy, remove carbon dioxide from ocean and atmosphere.
CO2 is swept away to space by the solar wind. By using existing technology so CO2 escapes through the Polar Cusp holes, or as a “Firebreak”
There are areas that are below sea level and these could be flooded by a canal or ....
Growing plants on land to absorb carbon will lead to contention of land space and fresh water. This can be negated by growing in oceans.
Creating large artificial hydrophonics forest in the Sahara.
Floating membranes to reflect sunlight to prevent ocean absorption of solar energy and thereby resist greenhouse warming.
Get people to estimate their personal carbon, and give to reforestation or get drafted to plant trees and other work.
Fit cloud seeding devices to all commercial aircraft and use them to reduce direct sunlight on a global scale
An alkaline cloud spraying increases the solubility of CO2 in water, providing CO2 masses deleting by enriched rain droplets.
Tow Icebergs to recent open water in Arctic Ocean. The iceberg when it thaws will disperse fresh water that will refreeze as psuedosea ice.
Process air in an efficient SOFC reactor, emit oxygen and hydroxyl radicals from the air feedstock, and destroy all other greenhouse gases.
Possible solutions, not to stop global warming, but to reverse it and cool the planet down are discussed.
To make something that can reduce carbon dioxide in the environment.
A blueprint for new green-cities to attract populations from ecologically damaged areas and from areas vulnerable to sea level rise
Computers register new dimensions of time and space. History is recalculated. Heat is lifted to the outer space.
This proposal seeks effective humanitarian pathways within the four realities of political and social unrest due to climate change.
Need for energy is responsible for global warming. Creating a "Cold Battery" would solve the problems of global warming and energy.
Helping water to freeze
It's nearly too late. Skip to minute 11 to understand why ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWEA2v1SCc -------- Now read on. .
Human activity simulation in buildings towns economy according to position of sun. A map of particular activity influencing weather forecast
Global water pipe network works as antena
Movement of Things in Buildings and towns creates waves that desturb atmospheric balance on the planet. Regulated ventilation restores it.
Human activities disturb balance. Adjust equipments to restore balance and create waves to lift heat to the outer space.
Scientists suggest the earth core temperature could be 7000 deg. Celsius due to nuclear reaction. Neutron absorbing rods could be inserted.
Deploy a large L1 positioned space object in orbit between the earth/sun to artificially shade sunlight and reduce the earth’s temperature.
Establishing green roofs around areas can provide environmental, public-health related, and economic benefits.
Worldwide it is easy to find 10 million acres that could be planted in trees to sequester carbon. No new science required, just work.
The quickest and safest way of cooling the planet in the short term is to restore reflectivity and shading to 1960 levels.
This is a weird, futuristic, sci-fi, probably-won't-work idea. But what if it did work?
Restore Arctic Sea Ice extent and mass over 20 year time period with geo-engineering.
air and water turbulance modeling.
This (SRM) (CDR) hybrid solution uses FREE energy to cool Planet Earth and sequestor carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere.
Now we see 1 meter as constant and temperature as changing. Make temperature as constant and change length of meter and duration of second.
Olivine is known to sequester CO2. Use Olivine to replace sand, pebbles and as a Magnesium-source. Another use to replace lime
Boats for buildings to cope with coastal flooding, floating planters for gardens, and desalinate lots of seawater for irrigation.
Ride and sharing is the usage of free seats for passengers who would like to go the same route at the same time
Ultraviolet light can break up CO2 into oxygen & carbon molecules. Have orbiting prisms amplify ultraviolet light.
Intergovernmental panel to set the Earth's thermostat and advocate for reduced CO2 emissions
Put attention to empty space. Expand it to the moon. Change the length of meter. Recalculate all measurements. Created waves will lift heat
Create a scale for each gas from 0 to 100 where 0 is solid form and from 0 to 100 is liquid form of polluting gas. Create waves of gas.
Slow down rotation of the planet to cool it down.
Tundra snow and polar ice can each be naturally restored without fossil fuel, and without adversely affecting the local environment.
Decreasing absorbtion of solar radiation through reflective clouds formed by ocean water raised to ice crystal formation height in tubes.
Antennas of 2G/3G/4G wireless network produce lots of waves of different intensity in a very short time and connect different directions
Utilizing Earth's excess of GHG, begin the process of Terraforming Mars.
A bacteria producing zero toxins multiplying within a matter of weeks may be the answer...
Integrating two technologies, Buoyant Flakes and Glacial Solutions, can be used to adjust regional climates and reverse ocean acidification
CO2, N and P are consumed during Photosythesis and Oxygen and food or fuel is produced. So it is the best solution to climate change, etc.
Organic change
Build a rooftop garden harnessing both urban farming and recycling of usable water.
Half of sea-level rise comes from ice flow into the ocean, this flow can be slowed by removing lubricating water from bed of the ice.
The basic idea is to boost the dispersal of tree seeds with small, durable, autonomous rovers for expanding forests and sequestrating carbon
To create a floating mass on the world's oceans that would reduce ocean acidification and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Address both ocean acidification and future energy shortages with a properly implemented nuclear renaissance.
Thermal stratification of the oceans induced by global warming presents the opportunity to convert warming heat to productive energy.
About 50 Billion tons of Diatoms grow in lakes and oceans. Grow another 25 Billion Tons and consume all Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions.
Will we wait to reach the tipping point? How many more will have to die? An invisible, unbound screen in space to stop the seas from rising.
Using large tubes sunk into the ocean 2000', with props set in them to draw the cold water up, and intermix it into the surface layer.
Ice is water, water is life.
Testing nontoxic chemicals that stabilize methane ice, making it stable and resistant to elevated temperatures as the climate warms.
Semi-submersible wind turbines pump water to thicken sea-ice floes <1km to remediate global warming, methane emission and polar habitat
Buoyant flakes on impoverished seas provide organic, slow-release nutrients to biomass, cooling, C-biosequestration & de-acidification
CO2 may be provisionally sequestrated as gas blanket in fuels storage tanks to serv as raw material for further uses to fix it.
The Climate Plan proposes parallel lines of action to reduce the risk of methane erupting in huge quantities from the Arctic Ocean seafloor.
Carbon dioxide is unique in that it becomes a liquid at high pressures close to ambient temperature. Can this be used to sequester carbon?
Proposes minor adjustments to the terraform of the Arctic ocean, its impact would have significant economic and environmental benefits
CO2 may be provisionally sequestrated as gas blanket in fuels storage tanks to serv as raw material for further uses to fix it.