Bottomupisation. CIA Backs $630,000 Scientific Study on Controlling Global Climate. The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth's environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS geoengineering study financially supported by an intelligence agency. With the spooks' money, scientists will study how humans might influence weather patterns, assess the potential dangers of messing with the climate, and investigate possible national security implications of geoengineering attempts. The total cost of the project is $630,000, which NAS is splitting with the CIA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA. The NAS website says that "the US intelligence community" is funding the project, and William Kearney, a spokesman for NAS, told Mother Jones that phrase refers to the CIA.
At least one individual has already tried modifying the climate. Developing an International Framework for Geoengineering. Speaker: M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Author: John D. Steinbruner, Director, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland Presider: Ruth Greenspan Bell, Acting U.S. Climate Policy Director, World Resources Institute March 10, 2010, Washington D.C. Council on Foreign Relations RUTH GREENSPAN BELL: Okay. I'm Ruth Greenspan Bell from World Resources Institute, and it's my pleasure to invite -- to welcome you here this evening. So our subject this evening is geoengineering, and in some parts of the environmental community, just saying the word "geoengineering" is a fighting word. There is, I think, some fear of the impression that there's a magic bullet involved. So we will start. So I wanted to first ask Granger to sort of set the stage for us and to tell us -- to start from almost a definitional point of view: What is geoengineering?
M. So that's all kind of theoretical. Last comment. Geoengineering effective climate protection or megalomania? - 4177.pdf. L’asperatus : un nouveau nuage ! Un asperatus en Nouvelle-Zélande (Ile du Sud). Source : Cloud Appreciation Society / Tanis Danielson L’asperatus : un nouveau nuage ! - 5 Photos D’étranges formes de nuages ont récemment fait leur apparition au-dessus de la Grande-Bretagne et de la Nouvelle-Zélande, mais aussi en quelques autres endroits du globe. Ces nuages sont apparus sur des photos transmises régulièrement par les membres de la Cloud Appreciation Society. « Nous avons essayé d’identifier et de classer toutes les images de nuages que nous avons, mais il y en avait qui n’allaient dans aucune des catégories, j’ai donc commencé à penser que cela pouvait être un type unique de nuage », raconte Gavin Pretor-Pinney, le fondateur de l’association. Hanmer Springs, Nouvelle-Zélande. Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Etats-Unis).
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Plaines de Canterbury, Alpes-du-Sud, Nouvelle-Zélande. A voir aussi sur Internet Sur le même sujet. European Parliament: Beyond theories of weather modification: Intervention by Wayne Hall, Josefina Fraile au Parlement Européen vofr / 8-9 avril 2013. The Geoengineering Option. Each year, the effects of climate change are coming into sharper focus. Barely a month goes by without some fresh bad news: ice sheets and glaciers are melting faster than expected, sea levels are rising more rapidly than ever in recorded history, plants are blooming earlier in the spring, water supplies and habitats are in danger, birds are being forced to find new migratory patterns.
The odds that the global climate will reach a dangerous tipping point are increasing. Over the course of the twenty-first century, key ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, could shift radically, and thawing permafrost could release huge amounts of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Such scenarios, although still remote, would dramatically accelerate and compound the consequences of global warming. To continue reading, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Register now to get three articles each month. As a subscriber, you get unrestricted access to ForeignAffairs.com. The Truth About Geoengineering.
The failure to make much progress at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar this winter was yet another reminder that the world might soon face extreme climate shifts. In response, it is becoming increasingly likely that governments will adopt risky strategies, known as “geoengineering,” to rapidly cool the planet. Four years ago, in order to raise awareness about geoengineering, we published “The Geoengineering Option” in Foreign Affairs. Almost nobody thought that such tactics -- which included spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to make the earth more reflective, akin to how big volcanoes cool the planet -- were a particularly good option. The risks were simply too great and the unknowns too many. These days, barely a month goes by without new research that shows that the planet’s climate could be more sensitive to global warming than experts previously thought. Since we wrote our essay, press coverage of geoengineering has exploded.
Don't have an account? Register. Geo-engineering. Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geoengineering | Environment. A small group of leading climate scientists, financially supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change. The scientists, who advocate geoengineering methods such as spraying millions of tonnes of reflective particles of sulphur dioxide 30 miles above earth, argue that a "plan B" for climate change will be needed if the UN and politicians cannot agree to making the necessary cuts in greenhouse gases, and say the US government and others should pay for a major programme of international research. Solar geoengineering techniques are highly controversial: while some climate scientists believe they may prove a quick and relatively cheap way to slow global warming, others fear that when conducted in the upper atmosphere, they could irrevocably alter rainfall patterns and interfere with the earth's climate.