America's Climate Choices: Request for Written Input on Geoengineering

The Committee on America's Climate Choices and its panels are seeking public input on "geoengineering" approaches, or interventions in the climate system designed to diminish the amount of climate change occurring after greenhouse gases or radiatively active aerosols are released to the atmosphere.

Specifically, we are seeking written input on:

Plausible geoengineering approaches and their potential effects on climate change;
Key uncertainties and possible unintended consequences associated with different geo-engineering approaches;
Practical, legal, and ethical issues associated with geo-engineering;
Possible avenues for future research and near-term actions that may be required to support informed decisions related to geo-engineering.

This input will be used to inform a small workshop in mid-June as well as ongoing deliberations by the America's Climate Choices committee and panels.

Submission instructions:

Please begin your documents with bullets briefly describing your main points. While there is no strict length limit for submissions, it is strongly recommended that you limit your input to 500 words or less. If you plan to separately address widely varying approaches, multiple short submissions are preferred to one long submission. Finally, please refer to the peer-reviewed literature or published documentation, providing full citation or a link to the cited document, whenever possible.

Please submit your input via email to: accinput-main@nas.edu. Deadline for submissions is July 10, 2009.

Download a copy of this announcement in pdf format here.

Read public input and other relevant documents here. (Current as of June 11, 2009.)