Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics www.atmos-chem-phys.net 1680-7316 1680-7324 9 15 2009 10.5194/acp-9-5539-2009 http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5539/2009/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5539/2009/acp-9-5539-2009.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/5539/2009/acp-9-5539-2009.pdf 5539 5561 2009-08-06 The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options T. M. Lenton t.lenton@uea.ac.uk N. E. Vaughan School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK Climate geoengineering proposals seek to rectify the Earth's current and potential future radiative imbalance, either by reducing the absorption of incoming solar (shortwave) radiation, or by removing CO₂ from the atmosphere and transferring it to long-lived reservoirs, thus increasing outgoing longwave radiation. A fundamental criterion for evaluating geoengineering options is their climate cooling effectiveness, which we quantify here in terms of radiative forcing potential. We use a simple analytical approach, based on energy balance considerations and pulse response functions for the decay of CO₂ perturbations. This aids transparency compared to calculations with complex numerical models, but is not intended to be definitive. It allows us to compare the relative effectiveness of a range of proposals. We consider geoengineering options as additional to large reductions in CO₂ emissions. By 2050, some land carbon cycle geoengineering options could be of comparable magnitude to mitigation "wedges", but only stratospheric aerosol injections, albedo enhancement of marine stratocumulus clouds, or sunshades in space have the potential to cool the climate back toward its pre-industrial state. Strong mitigation, combined with global-scale air capture and storage, afforestation, and bio-char production, i.e. enhanced CO₂ sinks, might be able to bring CO₂ back to its pre-industrial level by 2100, thus removing the need for other geoengineering. Alternatively, strong mitigation stabilising CO₂ at 500 ppm, combined with geoengineered increases in the albedo of marine stratiform clouds, grasslands, croplands and human settlements might achieve a patchy cancellation of radiative forcing. Ocean fertilisation options are only worthwhile if sustained on a millennial timescale and phosphorus addition may have greater long-term potential than iron or nitrogen fertilisation. Enhancing ocean upwelling or downwelling have trivial effects on any meaningful timescale. Our approach provides a common framework for the evaluation of climate geoengineering proposals, and our results should help inform the prioritisation of further research into them. % vor jede Referenz Ackerman, A. 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