Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
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The Federal Weather Enterprise
Fiscal Year 2020 Budget and Coordination Report |Federal Meteorological Coordinating Groups This report consists of two main sections. Section 1 is a description of the Federal weather coordination structure and the ongoing collaborative efforts supporting the goals and objectives … More …
Mission-driven research for stratospheric aerosol geoengineering
22 January 2019 | Douglas G. MacMartin and Ben Kravitz | The last decade has seen broad exploratory research into stratospheric aerosol (SA) geoengineering Link To Full_Document_1089 … More …
Exploring sulfate-aerosol versus SO2 stratospheric geoengineering
11 April 2019 | Atmospheric chemistry and Physics “The spread of emissions ranged from 3.75◦ S–3.75◦ N to 30◦ S–30◦ N. In the SO2 emission scenarios, continuous production of tiny nucleation-mode particles results in increased coagulation, which together with gaseous … More …
‘‘Climate Security Intelligence Act of 2019’’
5 June 2019 | H.R. 3110 | 116th Congress In the House of Representatives | To amend the National Security Act of 1947 to establish a Climate Security Intelligence Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and … More …
Governing Climate Engineering: A Proposal for Immediate Governance of Solar Radiation Management
20 July 2019 | Sustainability 2019, 11, 3954; doi:10.3390/su11143954 A range of questions pertaining to the governance or governability of SRM have been advanced. Link To Full_Document_sustainability-11-03954-v2 Supplementary material Externally hosted supplementary file 1 Link: http://ceassessment.org/SRMreport/ Description: Full report of the … More …
Aerosol Impacts on the Hydrology and Hydropower Generation in California
March 2019 | California Energy Commission | Gavin Newsom, Governor The presence of aerosols causes $2.8 million loss in revenue in a water year for Southern California Edison, providing more justification for stricter environmental regulations to reduce anthropogenic aerosol emissions. Link … More …
The Copernicus Programme — Europe’s eyes on Earth
1 June 2016 | Global Framework for Climate Services GFCS — WMO | European Commission “The Copernicus programme is a cornerstone of the European Union’s efforts to monitor the Earth and its many ecosystems, whilst ensuring that its citizens … More …
Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases: The Principal Cause of Global Warming
22 September 2018 | J. Marvin Herndon | Journal of Geography, Environment, and Earth Science Link To Full_Document_11247-Article Text-20683-1-10-20181108Herndon1722018JGEESI44290 The near- daily, near-global, deliberate aerosol particulate pollution is heating our planet, disrupting weather and hydrological cycles, and poisoning life on … More …
California Wildfires: Role of Undisclosed Atmospheric Manipulation and Geoengineering
October 2018 | J. Marvin Herndon and Mark Whiteside | Journal of Geography, Environment, and Earth Science International | In this Review, we aim to reveal an unrecognised source of causality leading to increases in combustibility, intensity, and the extent … More …
SB-682 Climate change: radiative forcing management climate accounting protocol. (2019-2020)
27 March 2019 | Introduced by Senator Allen |California State Legislature | “On or before January 1, 2021, the state board shall adopt a climate accounting protocol to evaluate the potential of proposed climate mitigation and restoration actions to reduce … More …
Localization Applications of 3D-GIS Artificial Weather Modification Operational Command System in Fuxin, China
27 June 2019 | Ke Sun1, Baoli Sun1*, Xu Zhang1, Qingfei Zhai2, Yang Liu2, Xiaogang Ma1, Hanzhu Xu1, Ji Liu1 Artificial weather modification, hereinafter referred to as “weather modification”, refers to the activities that humans use modern science and technology … More …
Colorado | SB 19-221
2 April 2019 | COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD CONSTRUCTION FUND PROJECTS $175,000 Weather Modification Program – to continue to assist water conservation and conservancy districts and water providers with the development of cloud seeding programs that provide benefits to recreation, … More …