Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
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Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions
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Technical characteristics of a solar geoengineering deployment and implications for governance
23 September 2019 | Authors: Douglas G. MacMartin, Peter J. Irvine, Ben Kravitz & Joshua B. Horton| “These include not only the choice of whether to deploy solar engineering, but decisions regarding how to deploy, and ongoing decision-making throughout deployment.” Link To Full … More …
Polarimetric Observations of Chaff Using the WSR-88D Network
May 2018| Authors: JAMES M. KURDZO, EARLE R. WILLIAMS, DAVID J. SMALLEY, BETTY J. BENNETT, DAVID C. PATTERSON, MARK S. VEILLETTE, AND MICHAEL F. DONOVAN |American Meteorological Society | “Chaff is a military radar countermeasure consisting of small, metallic-coated silica fibers … More …
NOAA gets go-ahead to study climate Plan B: Geoengineering
23 January 2020 | John Fialka, E&E News | BOULDER, Colo. — The top climate change scientist for NOAA said he has received $4 million from Congress and permission from his agency to study two emergency — and controversial … More …
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The Defense Department Wants to Use the Atmosphere as a Sensor
31 January 2020 | By Brandi Vincent | Next.gov | Defense researchers suspect that the atmosphere could help detect impending disturbances. The atmosphere is critical to life on the planet Earth, encompassing the air we breathe, blocking out life-threatening ultraviolet radiation … More …
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H.R. 5519 — “Atmospheric Climate Intervention Research Act”
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‘Diluted’ Measurements Are Used To Give NEXRAD a Clean Bill of Health
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Israeli Unmanned Systems, Naval & Avionics Defense Delegation Visiting Virginia
02 January 2020 | Virginia Israel Advisory Board |Link to Company List |Homeland Security (HLS)| Israeli companies, Link to Company List including the three largest Israeli defense contractors, are seeking to source $100m of goods and services; develop R&D, manufacturing and sales … More …
Biological Agent (BA) / Aerosol
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A global atmospheric electricity monitoring network for climate and geophysical research
5 January 2019 | ScienceDirect | K.A.NicollabR.G.HarrisonaV.BartacJ.BorcR.BruggeaA.ChillingariandJ.ChumeA.K.GeorgouliasfA.GuhagK.KourtidisfM.KubickihE.MareeviJ.MatthewsjH.MkrtchyandA.OdzimekhJ.-P.RaulinkD.RobertlH.G.SilvamJ.TaczakY.YairnR.Yanivop Abstract The Global atmospheric Electric Circuit (GEC) is a fundamental coupling network of the climate system connecting electrically disturbed weather regions with fair weather regions across the planet. The GEC sustains the fair … More …