Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
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Solar geoengineering (SG) to Manipulate Climate Increasing Extreme Weather Hazards?
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Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth
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State of Rhode Island — H 5992
11 APRIL 2019 |RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY – THE GEOENGINEERING ACT Introduced By: Representatives Price, Bennett, Quattrocchi, and McNamara (a) To preserve the safe, peaceful uses of Rhode Island’s atmosphere for people and the environment, by regulating and … More …
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ROCKETS DUMP CHEMICALS INTO NORTHERN LIGHTS
5 April 2019 | SpaceWeather.com | Friday night (April 5th) in Norway, researchers at the Andøya Space Center launched two sounding rockets into a minor geomagnetic storm. The results were out of this world. Aurora tour guide Kim Hartviksen photographed … More …
OFCM Federal Coordinator’s Update
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15 August 1997 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Edward Teller is considered to be the father of the hydrogen bomb ”Perhaps one of the surprises of this analysis is the relatively low costs at which some of the geoengineering … More …
15 U.S. Code
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Sixth International Geoengineering Governance Summer School, 2019
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Toward Legitimate Governance of Solar Geoengineering Research: A Role for Sub-State Actors
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
19 June 2009 | by Peter Folger |Specialist in Energy and Natural Resources Policy Large, industrial sources of CO2, such as electricity-generating plants, are likely initial candidates for CCS because they are predominantly stationary, single-point sources. Electricity generation contributes over … More …