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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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Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) StratoCruiser


Spring 2019

Originally proposed by Bill Gates’ company Intellectual Ventures, the StratoShield has been renamed the StratoCruiser and a team funded by Bill Gates’ [...]


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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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Commercial Aviation Creating Ice Haze and “Accidental Geoengineering”


December 2015

If the recent clear sky “brightening” trend were due to cleaner air and fewer aerosols alone, it should be accompanied by an increase in direct downwe [...]


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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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AMEG Demands Global Geoengineering, Project LUCY, & The ANGELS Proposal


May - December 2012

The Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) sent a letter to world leaders [1] demanding immediate geoengineering to prevent runaway global warming due [...]


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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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Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (E-PEACE)


February 23, 2011

E-PEACE, an experiment which while not identifying as SRM resulted in clear implications for marine cloud brightening (MCB) technology post hoc; E-PEA [...]


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Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)


October 2010

SPICE (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) is an EPSRC, NERC and STFC co-funded 3 1/2 year collaboration between the University [...]


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The Intellectual Ventures StratoShield “Hose in the Sky”


November 28, 2009

Bill Gates' "StratoShield" would later be rebranded as David Keith's SCoPeX "StratoCruiser." Called a Stratospheric Shield, or StratoShield for short, [...]


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Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Research: FICER


January 2007 - Present

The Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER) Grants for (GEOENGINEERING) research are provided to the University of Calgary from gifts [...]


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Russian Geoengineering Solar Radiation Management Field Experiment


September 25, 2005

Results of a field experiment on studying solar radiation passing in the visible wavelength range are described with the model aerosol media created i [...]


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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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Mount Pinatubo Eruption Cools Planet, Scientists Rejoice


June 12, 1991

The ozone hole over Antarctica was the largest recorded following the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on June 12, 1991. Climate engineers excited by the global [...]


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The “Silver Lining Project” Marine Cloud Brightening Boats


September 27, 1990

Double duty geoengineering and weather modification boats that spray oceanic salt water into clouds (marine strato-cumulus) to make them reflect sunli [...]


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Restoring the Quality of Our Environment


November 1965

Presidential report advises geoengineering solar radiation management (SRM) and investigated injecting condensation or freezing nuclei into the atmosp [...]


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