Climate engineering: Exploring nuances and consequences of deliberately altering the Earth's energy budget

If this continues, serious consequences to our planet are likely to occur within the second half of this century. The objective of Climate Engineering (hereafter CE, but also referred to as 'Geoengineering', and sometimes as 'Solar Radiation Management') is to offset the warming and some other climate consequences that would otherwise result from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface or by increasing the outward transmission of long-wave radiation from the Earth.

These strategies might be used throughout the period required to replace fossil-fuel burning with globally distributed clean energy and even be continued while CO₂ concentrations remained too high.