Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Technical Note
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: (cont.)
iron. It did not work as hoped, but there is nothing to
prevent larger-scale tries regardless of our ignorance of the
consequences.
The geoengineering folks are starting to back off a bit, and
the latest thing is to look at what might be done to counter-
act a sudden climate instability that caused a rapid, large
temperature rise (these instabilities have happened and are
discussed in the
next chapter
). At least the advocates are now
talking of doing some serious work on consequences as well
as methodology.
