Evaluation of Scholarly Sources

In this blog post I will be analyzing two of the scholarly sources I have chosen for my controversial issue. The content within the two journal publications are closely related to geoengineering, and have been dissected in the post below.

The first scholarly journal publication "An economic evaluation of solar radiation management" is as self-explanatory as it gets. The primary purpose of the article is to evaluate whether or not creating technology to reflect the sun back into space will be cost effective for the impact it will have. This specific article was published through academic journal Science of the Total Environment and was revised and edited multiple times before being made public.

Geoengineering contains a lot of data relating to temperatures in the air, ground and soil, as well as the percentages of different amounts of chemicals in the atmosphere. Throughout the article, there are many in-text citations that will lead to more information on the research conducted, and at the end of the article is a long reference sheet.

Anyone who is interested in learning more about geoengineering, climate economics or climate modeling can read this article published by the following authors: Asbjorn Aaheim, Bard Romstad, Tamyuan Wei, Jon Egill Kristjansson, Helene Muri, Ulrike Neimeier, and Hawke Schmidt. A quick search on Academic Search Complete with the terms geoengineering, atmospheric and change allowed me to find this article.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "National Climate Assessment Released" May 16, 2014 via flickr.
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The second scholarly source chosen was written in order to analyze potential risks and benefits of applying geoengineering to climate change. The article "Review of geoengineering approaches to mitigating climate change" was also found within Academic Search Complete with the same search terms.

Jurgen. "Smoke, Smoking, Chimney, Fireplace" 11/13/2012 via pixabay.

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Authors Zhihua Zhang, John C. Moore, Donald Hulsingh, and Yongxin Zhao wrote the article with the intention that readers would like to better understand the economical and environmental impacts of geoengineering. Much like the previous article, many researches have been conducted in regards to cost effectiveness and overall environmental impact of geoengineering. Published through the Journal of Cleaner Production after much peer review, the article includes many in-text citations as well and provides an extensive list of references near the end.