# Geoengineering **Entity class:** Technology field **Domain:** Climate / Planetary engineering **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale intervention in Earth's climate system, commonly divided between carbon-dioxide removal and solar-radiation modification. ## Mechanism and significance Its possible leverage creates governance problems involving uncertainty, unequal regional effects, termination risk, attribution, and authority to act. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Physical Intelligence and Scientific Infrastructure|Physical Intelligence and Scientific Infrastructure]] - **Primary fields:** [[Physical AI]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[AI Superpower]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Project Suncatcher]] · [[Physical Superintelligence]] · [[Weather Engineering]] · [[ASML]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.