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Willing to Give up Blue Skies for Climate Fix? Oct. 2009: A new study describes pros and cons of cooling Earth via a thin cloud of aerosols. Techniques cited to do that are, artillery cannons, a miles-long tower, military aircraft and stratospheric balloonsMSNBC
S. 601 Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009. A bill to establish the Weather Mitigation Research Office, and for other purposes GovTrack
Texas Weather Modification Currently, cloud-seeding projects designed to increase rainfall from convective cloud towers are conducted in nearly 31 million acres of Texas (or almost one-fifth of the state’s land area). Find out more | pdf version | Watch video
Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment Suspended
Germany - Federal Environment Ministry Regrets Approval by Federal Research Ministry of Iron Enrichment Experiment Press release
LOHAFEX Update: Throwing precaution (and iron) to the wind (and waves) ETC Group
Iron Fertilization of Oceans may be Ineffective in Fighting Global Warming Read
The Earth is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat NY Times
The Big Question: Is there a technological solution to the problem of global warming? The Independent
How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet - Popular Science Read
Iron Versus the Greenhouse - Science Magazine Read
Creation of Visible Artificial Optical Emissions in the Aurora by High-power Radio Waves Nature
UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques Read
"Control of space," thundered LBJ before reporters, "means control of the world. From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control the earth's weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the Gulf Stream and change temperature climates to frigid." Lyndon Johnson, as quoted in, Caro, Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, p. 1028.
Geoengineering
Geoengineering is defined as the deliberate modification of Earth's environment on a large scale, "to suit human needs and promote habitability". Wikipedia
Potential geoengineering options from the IPCC:
Reforestation
Reforest 28.7 Mha of economically or environmentally marginal crop and pasture lands and nonfederal forest lands to sequester 10% of U.S. CO2 emissions.
Space Mirrors
Place 50,000 100-km2 mirrors in the earth's orbit to reflect incoming sunlight.
Stratospheric Dust
Use guns or balloons to maintain a dust cloud in the stratosphere to increase the sunlight reflection.
Stratospheric Bubbles
Place billions of aluminized, hydrogen-filled balloons in the stratosphere to provide a reflective screen.
Low Stratospheric Dust
Use aircraft to maintain a cloud of dust in the low stratosphere to reflect sunlight.
Low Stratospheric Soot
Decrease efficiency of burning in engines of aircraft flying in the low stratosphere to maintain a thin cloud of soot to intercept sunlight.
Cloud Stimulation
Burn sulfur in ships or power plants to form sulfate aerosol in order to stimulate additional low marine clouds to reflect sunlight.
Ocean Biomass Stimulation
Place iron in the oceans to stimulate generation of CO2-absorbing phytoplankton.
Atmospheric CFC Removal
Use lasers to break up CFCs in the atmosphere.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Documentary on HAARP Weather Control
Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base.
This 1992 scientific study was funded by the US Congress. The study outlines the threat of greenhouse warming along with potential geoengineering mitigations. Read free online at National Academies Press
United States Weather Modification Programs
represents documented findings on current and ongoing weather modification programs. Take a look
Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research examines the status of the science underlying weather modification in the United States. It calls for a coordinated national research program to answer fundamental questions about basic atmospheric processes and to address other issues that are impeding progress in weather modification. Read free online
The Weather Makers
Tim Flannery is one of the world's leading writer / scientists and thinkers in environmental science. Flannery is passionate about educating us about global warming in the hope of disrupting our - and key decision makers' - lethal complacency. A must read! The Weather Makers
Watch Discovery Channel's Project Earth documentary on geoengineering on YouTube Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Artificial cloud Created at the Edge of Space
"Our primary science goal is to understand [how] radar [scatters] from a dusty plasma," says CARE's principal investigator, Paul Bernhardt of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC New Scientist
Artificial Ionosphere Creates Bullseye in the Sky. Auroral experiments make glowing plasma patch Nature News
New Energy Center to Impact Future Weapons for Naval and Joint Forces The focus of activity in the new building will be directed energy systems and applications, which use electromagnetic energy to project military force and augment conventional capabilities Navy.mil
NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday "A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth's atmosphere." Science.com
Night Time Artificial Cloud Study Using NASA Sounding Rocket "A rocket experiment that may shed light on the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere will be conducted Sept. 15 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia" Wallops Flight Facility Goddard Flight Center
Nordic Ionospheric Sounding rocket Seeding Experiment (NISSE)
"In additional scenario the life time of the ice crystals turns out to be long enough to form a cloud of ice particles and induce an artificial noctilucent cloud." NISSE
Strange Clouds at the Edge of Space "What is ice doing in a rarefied layer of Earth's upper atmosphere that is one hundred million times dryer than air from the Sahara desert?" NASA
"Since their relatively recent classification, the occurrence of noctilucent clouds appears to be increasing in frequency, brightness and extent." Wikipedia
PG&E Weather Modification Plan Raises Concerns
On October 22 2008, utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric posted a "Notice Of Intention" in the Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers outlining their plan to conduct a five-year "weather modification" program in southern Siskiyou County Mt. Shasta News
