Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
Reference Documents:
The Federal Weather Enterprise: Fiscal Year 2021 Budget and Coordination Report
May 2020 | FEDERAL COORDINATOR FOR METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH | “4. Research 4.1 Exercise leadership in coordinating U.S. efforts in international weather research priorities including the current World Meteorological Organization Grand Challenges. 4.2 Foster interagency collaboration of research … More …
Environmental Warfare Techniques? DARPA 1975 / Rutgers 2020: Attempt to Artificially Control Global Temperatures Via Increasing Sulfur Aerosols in the Stratosphere; Results In Worldwide Climate Extremes
July 20, 2020 |Authors: Simone Tilmes1, Douglas G. MacMartin2, Jan T. M. Lenaerts3, Leo van Kampenhout4, Laura Muntjewerf5, Lili Xia6, Cheryl S. Harrison7, Kristen M. Krumhardt8, Michael J. Mills1, Ben Kravitz9,10, and Alan Robock6 | Rutgers University| Science Daily | “Reaching 1.5 … More …
Geopolitical ecology of solar geoengineering: from a ‘logic of multilateralism’ to logics of militarization
2020 | Author: Kevin Surprise | Journal of Political Ecology | “Solar geoengineering is considered “fast, cheap, and imperfect” in that it could rapidly reduce planetary temperatures with low cost technology, but potentially generate catastrophic consequences for climate, weather, and … More …
SCIENTISTS PIN BLAME FOR SOME CORONAVIRUS DEATHS ON AIR POLLUTION, PFAS, AND OTHER CHEMICALS
June 26 2020 | By Sharon Lerner | The Intercept | “ALMOST SIX MONTHS into the coronavirus pandemic, it’s already clear that environmental pollution is responsible for some portion of the hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths around the world. … More …
The Geoengineering Act 2020 — H8062
June 18, 2020 | State of Rhode Island | Relating to Health and Safety | “23-95-1. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Geoengineering Act.” 23-95-2. Legislative intent. (a) To preserve the safe, peaceful … More …
‘‘National Evaluation of Aviation and Aerospace Solutions to Climate Change Act of 2020’’
February 26, 2020 | H.R. 5977 |Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2] | Cosponsors: Rep. Schrier, Kim [D-WA-8]*,Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]*,Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26],Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large],Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2] | “To direct the Secretary of Transportation to seek to … More …
Airborne Measurements of the Impact of Ground-based Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding on Orographic Precipitation
September 2, 2012 | By MIAO Qun1 and Bart GEERTS2 | 1Department of Applied Mathematics, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211|2Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA | “This study uses airborne profiling W-band Doppler radar data as well … More …
Rainmaking: China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year—and it plans to quintuple that
October 22, 2013 | By Gwynn Guilford | Quartz | “China’s come a long way since 1958, when Russia brought cloud-seeding to the Middle Kingdom. It’s now the most trigger-happy cloud-seeder in the world. In 2011, China spent $150 million on a single regional … More …
Let it snow: Quantifiable observation of cloud seeding
February 24, 2020 | University of Wyoming | ScienceDaily | Two University of Wyoming researchers contributed to a paper that demonstrated, for the first time, direct observation of cloud seeding using radar and gauges to quantify the snowfall. Traditionally, cloud … More …
‘Cloud seeding’ not effective at producing rain as once thought, new research shows
November 1, 2010 | American Friends of Tel Aviv University | ScienceDaily | Summary “Recent research in Israel reveals that the common practice of cloud seeding with materials such as silver iodide and frozen carbon dioxide may not be as effective … More …
Re: The Global Weather Enterprise
June 3, 2020 | World Meteorological Organization WMO| Governance |Activity Areas | Projects | Planning and Monitoring | “A Global Weather Enterprise (GWE) Seminar, organised by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), was … More …
NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP
February 25, 2013 | By Daniel Parry |U.S. Naval Research Laboratory| U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research physicists and engineers from the Plasma Physics Division, working at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) transmitter facility, Gakona, Alaska, successfully … More …