Gabriele C. Hegerl & Susan Solomon, Science, 2009, Risks of Climate Engineering

Science, published online August 6, 2009; DOI: 10.1126/science.1178530

Perspectives

Submitted on July 1, 2009; accepted on July 29, 2009.

Risks of Climate Engineering

Gabriele C. Hegerl^* (Grant Institute, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, U.K.) and Susan Solomon^* (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory, 325 Broadway R/CSD, Boulder, CO 80305–3337, U.S.A.)

Abstract

Observations indicate that attempts to limit climate warming by reducing incoming shortwave radiation risk major precipitation changes.

^*Correspondence: Gabriele C. Hegerl, e-mail: gabi.hegerl@ed.ac.uk and Susan Solomon, e-mail: susan.solomon@noaa.gov