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Could we control our climate?
Could we control our climate?

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Dr Tamsin Edwards with contributions from Dr Mark Brandon.

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Course image:  courtesy: Mark Brandon.

Figure 1: Graham Cosserat, gcosserat via Flickr

Figure 2: NASA

Figure 3: The U.S. National Archives via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/ photos/ usnationalarchives/ 7152604933

Figure 4: ‘Blue Marble 2012’ images of the Earth showing (a) Africa and the Middle East, and (b) North America. (c) NASA/NOAA

Figure 6: taken from: Proposed methods of stratospheric aerosol injection: Robock et al. (2009). Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(19), p.L19703 Drawing by Brian West.

Figure 7: JackyR; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en

Figure 8: Satellite image of ship tracks: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Figure 9: John MacNeill

Figure 10: Raeky, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en

Figure 11: NASA

Figure 12: Low-tech and high-tech methods of CDR. (a) A handful of biochar, Photo courtesy of USDA-ARS, Prosser, Wash (b) An example design of a DAC plant by Carbon Engineering Limited.

Audio 1: ‘Changing Climate: The Solutions’, November 2015. BBC

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