Geoengineering refers to any attempt to engineer the planet. It isn't just aerosol injection, but would also include solar shades, dumping iron in the ocean, mo

Geoengineering refers to any attempt to engineer the planet. It isn't just aerosol injection, but would also include solar shades, dumping iron in the ocean, modifications to forest cover, creation or destruction of biomes (e.g., turning the Sahara back into something other than a desert), and in the future, conceivably things like bioengineering species to obtain desired goals (e.g., consider a plant we could farm that somehow sequestered CO2 in a form we could more easily bury). It's the terrestrial equivalent of the term "terraforming".