Geoengineering

Quick meaning: Geoengineering is a noun meaning The artificial manipulation of the environments of a planet, especially Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.

Meaning

The artificial manipulation of the environments of a planet, especially Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.

More Meanings

1. (engineering, mining) The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and constructing tunnels, mines, and other human-designed geologic structures within and on earth.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: planetary engineering, terraforming

A scientist gets into geoengineering, they're not a scientist anymore, they're a politician. Get hate mail, rocks through window, no one takes their real work seriously, all that.

Although he views large-scale geoengineering as an act of profound hubris[…]he thinks it may be necessary as an emergency measure, much like kidney dialysis is necessary to a person whose health is failing.

Although the panel does not support even pilot programs, it calls geoengineering “technically feasible in terms of cooling effects and costs” and says it has “the potential to affect greenhouse warming on a substantial scale.”

Synonyms for geoengineering

Depending on context, synonyms include terraforming.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include geoengineer, geotechnology, gengineering, genengineering, geotechnique, geotech.

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