Climate Mitigation

Solar Engineering
 Solar Engineering
• Solar geoengineering is a bunch of proposed
advancements to deliberately modify the Earth's radiative
equilibrium through other ways that are different from
those altering greenhouse gases concentrations
• These proposed ways would reflect or impede a little
portion of approaching solar radiation, therefore help
counter the rise in temperature
• There are Six commonly proposed technologies
• There is no carbon sequestration in this technique, just
involves reflection of incoming solar radiation.
 Proposed Technologies
• Aerosol injection; this involves spraying aerosols containing
sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere. Sulphur dioxide will
combine with water resulting in sulfuric acid aerosols that can
reflect light.
• Marine cloud brightening; creating brighter clouds by spraying
saltwater to clouds above the sea.
• High-albedo crops and buildings; simply making brighter
building to reflect light.
• Ocean mirror; tiny micro-bubbles in ocean to make sea foam
that can reflect light.
• Space sunshades; mirrors in orbit to reflect light
• Cloud thinning; removal of cirrus clouds since they absorb
more long-wave radiation.
 References
• Reynolds J. L. (2019). Solar geoengineering to reduce
climate change: a review of governance
proposals. Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and
engineering sciences, 475(2229), 20190255. https://
doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0255
• Explainer: Six ideas to limit global warming with
solar geoengineering. (2019, February 27). Retrieved
April 06, 2021, from
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-six-ideas-to-l
imit-global-warming-with-solar-geoengineering