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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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