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2008.10.10 British "Innovation, universities, science and skills" committee of parliament held the hearing named
"Geo-engineering" dedicated to the "beneficial intervention in order on a global scale to change the climate in directions
that we wish in the context of severe global heating with which we are threatened"
2009.06.08 Inflatable pneumatic modules already used in some spacecraft could be assembled into a 15-kilometre-high
tower, say Brendan Quine, Raj Seth and George Zhu at York University in Toronto, Canada
2009.07.20 American Meteorological Society adopts the "Geoengineering the Climate System. A Policy Statement of the
American Meteorological Society"
2009.07.27 Joule Biotechnologies revealed details of a process that uses genetically engineered microorganisms in
specially designed photobioreactors to use energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol or
hydrocarbon fuels. Process will be competitive with crude oil at $50 a barrel
2009.08.07 Copenhagen Consensus Centre analysis of climate engineering methods suggests that the cheapest way is
the marine cloud whitening by producing an extremely fine mist of sea water droplets using the "wind-driven spray
vessels", which "will sail back and forth perpendicular to the local prevailing wind and release micron-sized drops of
seawater into the turbulent boundary layer beneath marine stratocumulus clouds". This system could cancel out effects of
global warming this century for £5.3bn.
2009.09.01 Royal Society Science Policy report recommends "relevant UK government departments, in association with
the UK Research Councils, should together fund a 10 year geoengineering research programme at a level of the order of
£10M per annum".
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