A short review on Geo-engineering proposals to fight against climate change
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چکیده
Since the beginning of the industrial era, the atmosphere content in greenhouse gases has rapidly increased. In its 4th assessment report (AR4), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) points out the impact of human’s activities and its responsibility for a large part of the changes recently observed in the Earth's climate: increase in global temperature, sea level rise, melting of glaciers and ice-caps... As expected consequences can become dramatic before the end of the 21st century, numerous geo-engineering proposals have been developed to try fighting against these disturbances.
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