Mexico Bans “Make Sunsets” Rogue Geoengineering
April 2022 - Present
Make Sunsets, Inc. was founded in October 2022 by Luke Iseman and Andrew Song and is based in Box Elder, South Dakota. The company aims to “create ref [...]
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Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
January 17, 2022
On 17 January 2022, more than 60 senior climate scientists and governance scholars from around the world launched a global initiative calling for an I [...]
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“Hands Off Mother Earth” Manifesto: A Permanent Ban on Geoengineering
October 2018
110 civil society organizations and popular movements denounce geoengineering and demand an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. If your organi [...]
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Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
January 10, 2018
Recorded Wednesday, 10 January 2018: 8:45 AM Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas) Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. [1] Geoengineering, a [...]
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Congressional Hearing on Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology
November 8, 2017
The purpose of this hearing is to assess the status of geoengineering research in the United States, while also exploring potential technologies and i [...]
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Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program
March 24, 2017
Produce research that advances solar geoengineering’s science and technology frontier, publishing high-impact papers, and disseminating ideas that are [...]
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Geoengineering Necessary to Meet COP21 Goals
November - December 2015
“Within the Paris agreement there’s an implicit assumption that there will need to be greenhouse gases removed,” said Phil Williamson, a scientist at [...]
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Activists Challenge EPA at Hearing on Flight Pollution
August 11, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing its Washington, D.C., headquarters to hear from environmental groups, aircraft industry repr [...]
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United Nations Environmental Program Warns Geoengineering Could Hurt Ozone Layer
August 1-5, 2011
Synthesis report: “Deliberate injections of sulphur-containing compounds into the stratosphere, which have been suggested as a climate intervention ap [...]
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Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI)
September 28, 2010
The Royal Society has launched a Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developi [...]
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United Nations Warns Against Large Scale Weather Modification
March 22-24, 2010
It should be realised that the energy involved in weather systems is so large that it is impossible to create artificially rain storms, alter wind pat [...]
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The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
February 22-26, 2010
In the beginning, I had my doubts. The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, held last week at the Asilomar conferen [...]
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US/UK Joint Inquiry on Geoengineering: House Hearings
November 2009 - March 2010
Collaboration and Coordination on Geoengineering Introduction A joint inquiry on geoengineering was initiated in 2009 by the Science and Technology co [...]
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Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009
April 16, 2009
This bill was introduced on May 20, 2009, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote. Although this bill was not enacted, its pr [...]
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Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Scale Geoengineering
May 5, 2008
Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering May 5, 2008 - Washington, DC [1] Directors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fell [...]
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Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005
June 20, 2005
FAILED: H.R. 2995 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005. Rep. Mark Udall (Democrat) It is the purpo [...]
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Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005
March 3, 2005
FAILED: S. 517 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005. Sen. Kay Hutchison (Republican). It is the pur [...]
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Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
October 2003
“Although 40 years have passed since the first NAS report on weather modification, this Committee finds itself very much in concurrence with the findi [...]
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CME Group Launches Weather Derivatives
June 1999
Stock Market Betting On Weather and Climate Events From heat waves to arctic cold outbreaks, weather often has a significant impact on business. CME G [...]
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Doctor Evil’s Geoengineering Plan: From National Lab to Global Governance
August 15, 1997 - April 19, 2002
Edward Teller, Lowell Wood, and Roderick Hyde from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory publish three papers on climate change, geoengineering, and [...]
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International Treaties and Active Experiments in Space
September 1, 1989
Satellite explorations of the near earth environment have vastly increased our understanding of space plasmas and their interactions with systems. A l [...]
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Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy, and Potential
May 1978
[FULL DISCLOSURE] Scoping report on all weather modification activities in the USA. This report was required by the Weather Modification Policy Act of [...]
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The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) Weather Warfare Ban
December 10, 1976 - January 17, 1980
The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques Parties to the Environmental Modificat [...]
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National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976
October 13, 1976
S. 3383 (94th): National Weather Modification Policy Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a national policy on weather mod [...]
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Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972
December 18, 1971
Pubic Law 92–205, §1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 735 [H. R. 6893] [1] CHAPTER 9A-WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES OR ATTEMPTS; REPORTING REQUIREMENT §330. [...]
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