Why is Climate Modification Unregulated?
26 April 2025 | ZeroGeoengineering.com | 2023 Georgetown Environmental Law Review article, “Cloud Seeding, Wildfire Smoke Emissions, and Solar Geoengineering: Why is Climate Modification Unregulated?” discusses the problem of climate manipulation, which is neither regulated nor included in climate accounting. The paper states: “Climate modification is not a conspiracy theory or a hypothetical: it is happening, and it is changing weather patterns. Yet, climate modification is almost wholly unregulated.”
Bradshaw, Karen and Ehrman, Monika, Cloud Seeding, Wildfire Smoke Emissions, and Solar Geoengineering: Why is Climate Modification Unregulated? (2023). 35 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 459 (2023), SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 606, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4473753 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4473753
Abstract
“This Article is the first to identify that companies and agencies systemically modify climatic airspaces through wildfire smoke emissions, weather modification (cloud seeding to cause rain), and solar geoengineering. Climate modification is not a conspiracy theory or a hypothetical: it is happening, and it is changing weather patterns. Yet, climate modification is almost wholly unregulated. Further, it is also not recorded or tracked in systemic ways. That is to say, even government agencies do not have comprehensive records of whether; how often; or how much climate modification is occurring. The data is simply not gathered, aggregated, or stored. As a result, major indicators that rely on climatic conditions—including the Environmental Protection Agency climate accounting—systemically overlook the effects of human-caused climate manipulation when accounting for changes in weather and air quality over time.
This lack of regulation is a serious problem: climate accounting fails to measure virtually unregulated activities undertaken by a mix of public and private actors. Without accurately accounting for these activities, scientists and agencies may be understating the effect of climate change on historical factors, including CO2 emissions levels and rainfall. Such misinformation may lead to dramatic misstatements about the severity of the climate emergency. Inaccuracies in climate accounting stemming from the lack of data about climate modification also blind policymakers to opportunities to slow or reverse anthropocentric climate change through measuring, accounting for, and regulating human manipulation of airspace.”
“Congress began “fixing” wildfire in 2013. Since then, the incidence of wildfire has dramatically increased. What if our new approach to wildfire is causing the crisis?”
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