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Order Now! View the entire report HOME PAGE Chemtrails Web Polymers Patents Pic Gallery Aircraft Charts Health Issues Atmospheric Physics HAARP Geoegineering Global Warming Climate Change Ozone Depletion Greenhouse Gases Phytoplankton Oceans Bush File Cheney File Iraq War "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe." Escape Enter "You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." Store and Support Order Now Order Now	Geoengineering In Vogue - June 28, 2006 There was an interesting article in the NY Times this week on possible geo-engineering solutions to the global warming problem. The story revolves around a paper that Paul Crutzen (Nobel Prize winner for chemistry related to the CFC/ozone depletion link) has written about deliberately adding sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere to increase the albedo and cool the planet - analogous to the natural effects of volcanoes. The paper is being published in Climatic Change, but unusually, with a suite of commentary articles by other scientists. Scientist Publishes 'Eescape Route' From Global Warming - July 31, 2006 A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has drawn up an emergency plan to save the world from global warming, by altering the chemical makeup of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed. Albedo Enhancement By Strospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution To Resolve A Policy Dilemma? For PDF The first modeling results and the arguments presented in this paper call for active scientific research of the kind of geo-engineering, discussed in this paper. The issue has come to the forefront, because of the dilemma facing inter- national policy makers, who are confronted with the task to clean up air pollution, while simultaneously keeping global climate warming under control. Scientific, legal, ethical, and societal issues, regarding the climate modification scheme are many (Jamieson, 1996; Bodansky, 1996). Stratospheric Injections Could Help Cool Earth, Computer Model Shows "Geoengineering could provide additional time to address the economic and technological challenges faced by a mitigation-only approach," says Wigley. A two-pronged approach to stabilizing climate, with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as injections of climate-cooling sulfates, could prove more effective than either approach used separately. This is the finding of a new study by Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), published in the September 14 issue of Science. Wigley calculates the impact of injecting sulfate particles, or aerosols, every one to four years into the stratosphere in amounts equal to those lofted by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pintabuto in 1991. The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather" for Military Use "Environmental warfare is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News) Chilling Out Earth -Using giant orbiting mirrors to reduce global warming may sound like science fiction - but it's not In the face of skeptics and global warming evidence, a still small but now popular band of geoengineers are fretting over the finer details of world-altering blueprints. What was once dismissed by even their peers as science fiction -- mastering and manipulating our entire environment using planet-sized solutions -- is suddenly an exercise in heated debate and controversial science. It's being called our salvation. It's also being called our folly. How to Cool a Planet (Maybe) In the past few decades, a handful of scientists have come up with big, futuristic ways to fight global warming: Build sunshades in orbit to cool the planet. Tinker with clouds to make them reflect more sunlight back into space. Trick oceans into soaking up more heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Their proposals were relegated to the fringes of climate science. Few journals would publish them. Few government agencies would pay for feasibility studies. Environmentalists and mainstream scientists said the focus should be on reducing greenhouse gases and preventing global warming in the first place. But now, in a major reversal, some of the world's most prominent scientists say the proposals deserve a serious look because of growing concerns about global warming. Sulphur The Answer To Climate Woes? In the United States, the oil-soaked George W. Bush administration has consistently downplayed the threat and the scientific data. As chief of staff for the White House council on environmental quality, Philip Cooney (a non-scientist) and a former oil industry lobbyist edited the Bush administration's official policy papers on climate change, playing down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. It would appear that Cooney merely continued on with his previous mission for the American Petroleum Institute (API). This powerful lobby group represents oil giants and focuses on countering the virtual consensus among scientists that man-made emissions are rapidly heating the planet Committee Approves Bill Establishing Weather Modification Program "To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes" The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to approve a bill by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison establishing a weather modification program. “It is critical that we assess and evaluate the efficacy of weather modification research to the extent that lives are saved and property damage is limited,” Hutchison said. Geoengineering The Climate: History and Prospect by David Keith Department of Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University. Strategies Against Climate Change Teller, who is of course known to history as the father of the hydrogen bomb and of the Star Wars missile defence programme, has not always succeeded in getting his pet schemes adopted. His ambitious plan, for example, for using hydrogen bombs to construct harbours in the United States, never made the move from the drawing board into reality. His sarcasm reflected a genuine problem: that of persuading the public that permanent mobilisation of thousands of aircraft to fly day and night, 365 days a year, over land and sea spraying toxic metals over the human, animal and plant populations underneath is a desirable, or even in any way defensible, proposal. Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project Jay Michaelson - Stanford Environmental Law Journal January, 1998 Climate Change and Geoengineering One element that is missing from ecological and social movement discussion about climate change is 'geoengineering'. 'Geoengineering' is one of the words used for techniques being proposed more and more frequently by scientists and commercial journalists as a 'politically realistic' remedy for climate change. More Legal Issues Related to Geo-engineering University of Washington, School of Law For the purposes of this talk, Bodansky defines geoengineering as large-scale, intentional efforts to change the climate system. Climate engineering proposals include those aimed at removing GHGs from the atmosphere, for example, through afforestation or iron fertilization of plankton in the oceans and those aimed at screening out sunlight by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to create cloud condensation nuclei and hence more clouds, by injecting dust into the stratosphere to screen out sunlight, by launching reflective balloons into the stratosphere, or by space mirrors or screens to act as a constant shield from the sun. More Climate Change Modification Schemes .(pdf document) By Spencer Weart & American Institute of Physics Weather as a force multiplier - Owning the weather in 2025 (.pdf document) Geoengineering and Carbon Management (.pdf document) By David Keith Carnegie Mellon Univerisity Geoengineering Earth's Radiation Balance to Mitigate CO2 Induced Climate Change (.pdf document) Bala Govindasamy and Ken Caldeira Climate and Carbon Cycle Group Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory Impact of Geoengineering Schemes on the Terrestrial Biosphere (.pdf document) B. Govindasamy, K. Caldeira, S. Thompson, P.B. Duffy, C. Delire Climate and Carbon Cycle Group Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory Global Warming and Ice Ages - From the promoter of Atmospheric Geoengineering the Father of the Hydrogen bomb Prospects for Physics Based-Modulation of Global Change covers the use of aluminum "dust" as scattering agents deployed in the startosphere by wide body aircraft to reflect sunlight. This is a .pdf document E. Teller, L. Wood, R. Hyde Geoengineering .pdf document A report that covers a number of Geoengineering options such as stratospheric dust, aircraft exhaust and multiple balloon system, Summary For Policy Makers - Global Change Mitigation A Report of Working Group III of the IPCC IPCC Says CO2 Emissions Can Be Deeply Reduced Edward Teller Advances Global Warming Cure Nuclear physicist Edward Teller says that the jury is still out on whether or not greenhouse gases are leading to global warming, but that contemporary technology offers considerably cheaper options for addressing any global warming effects than politicians and environmentalists are considering. More CBS News Confirms Global Warming Experiments Underway Sunscreen for Planet Earth In 1979, physicist Freeman Dyson, in his characteristically prescient manner, proposed the deliberate, large-scale introduction of such fine particles into the upper atmosphere to offset global warming, which he thought even then would eventually become a human concern. Some of my colleagues and I have recently surveyed the current technological prospects for such an introduction. More Can Engineers Fix Global Warming? ``Another way to cool the planet is to reflect more sunlight back into space, before it heats up the earth and the atmosphere,'' says Benford. ``We could compensate for the warming effect of all greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution by reflecting less than 1 percent more of the sunlight.'' This could be achieved by installing white roofs on homes and buildings, using lighter colored pavement for roads and parking lots, or, even more dramatically, by spreading dust in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight before it reaches the earth, Benford says. More Quantifying and Minimizing Uncertainty of Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols The clear-sky climate forcing by anthropogenic aerosols has been shown to be of sufficient magnitude to mask the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases over large regions. Anthropogenic aerosols are composed of a variety of aerosol types including water-soluble inorganic species (e.g., sulfate, nitrate, ammonium), organic condensed species, elemental or black carbon, and mineral dust. Estimates of the clear-sky forcing by anthropogenic sulfate aerosols and by organic biomass-burning aerosols have been published previously. More "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe." "You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." FAIR USE NOTICE. This document contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. GeoCrisis is making this article available in our efforts to advance the understanding of environmental, justice issues, corporate accountability, human rights, labor rights and social understanding. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

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environment, particularly manipulation that is intended

to reduce undesired anthropogenic climate change.

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Scientist Publishes 'Eescape Route' From Global Warming - July 31, 2006

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has drawn up an emergency plan to save the world from global warming, by altering the chemical makeup of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed.

Albedo Enhancement By Strospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution To Resolve A Policy Dilemma?

For PDF

The first modeling results and the arguments presented in this paper call for active scientific research of the kind of geo-engineering, discussed in this paper. The issue has come to the forefront, because of the dilemma facing inter-
national policy makers, who are confronted with the task to clean up air pollution, while simultaneously keeping global climate warming under control. Scientific, legal, ethical, and societal issues, regarding the climate modification scheme are
many (Jamieson, 1996; Bodansky, 1996).

Stratospheric Injections Could Help Cool Earth, Computer Model Shows

"Geoengineering could provide additional time to address the economic and technological challenges faced by a mitigation-only approach," says Wigley.

A two-pronged approach to stabilizing climate, with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as injections of climate-cooling sulfates, could prove more effective than either approach used separately. This is the finding of a new study by Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), published in the September 14 issue of Science.
Wigley calculates the impact of injecting sulfate particles, or aerosols, every one to four years into the stratosphere in amounts equal to those lofted by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Pintabuto in 1991.

The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather" for Military Use

"Environmental warfare is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News)

Chilling Out Earth -Using giant orbiting mirrors to reduce global warming may sound like science fiction - but it's not
In the face of skeptics and global warming evidence, a still small but now popular band of geoengineers are fretting over the finer details of world-altering blueprints.
What was once dismissed by even their peers as science fiction -- mastering and manipulating our entire environment using planet-sized solutions -- is suddenly an exercise in heated debate and controversial science.
It's being called our salvation. It's also being called our folly.

How to Cool a Planet (Maybe)

In the past few decades, a handful of scientists have come up with big, futuristic ways to fight global warming: Build sunshades in orbit to cool the planet. Tinker with clouds to make them reflect more sunlight back into space. Trick oceans into soaking up more heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

Their proposals were relegated to the fringes of climate science. Few journals would publish them. Few government agencies would pay for feasibility studies. Environmentalists and mainstream scientists said the focus should be on reducing greenhouse gases and preventing global warming in the first place.

But now, in a major reversal, some of the world's most prominent scientists say the proposals deserve a serious look because of growing concerns about global warming.

Sulphur The Answer To Climate Woes?

In the United States, the oil-soaked George W. Bush administration has consistently downplayed the threat and the scientific data. As chief of staff for the White House council on environmental quality, Philip Cooney (a non-scientist) and a former oil industry lobbyist edited the Bush administration's official policy papers on climate change, playing down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. It would appear that Cooney merely continued on with his previous mission for the American Petroleum Institute (API). This powerful lobby group represents oil giants and focuses on countering the virtual consensus among scientists that man-made emissions are rapidly heating the planet

Committee Approves Bill Establishing Weather Modification Program

"To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes"
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to approve a bill by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison establishing a weather modification program.
“It is critical that we assess and evaluate the efficacy of weather modification research to the extent that lives are saved and property damage is limited,” Hutchison said.

Geoengineering The Climate: History and Prospect

by David Keith Department of Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University.

Strategies Against Climate Change

Teller, who is of course known to history as the father of the hydrogen bomb and of the Star Wars missile defence programme, has not always succeeded in getting his pet schemes adopted. His ambitious plan, for example, for using hydrogen bombs to construct harbours in the United States, never made the move from the drawing board into reality. His sarcasm reflected a genuine problem: that of persuading the public that permanent mobilisation of thousands of aircraft to fly day and night, 365 days a year, over land and sea spraying toxic metals over the human, animal and plant populations underneath is a desirable, or even in any way defensible, proposal.

Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project

Jay Michaelson - Stanford Environmental Law Journal January, 1998

Climate Change and Geoengineering

One element that is missing from ecological and social movement discussion about climate change is 'geoengineering'. 'Geoengineering' is one of the words used for techniques being proposed more and more frequently by scientists and commercial journalists as a 'politically realistic' remedy for climate change. More

University of Washington, School of Law
For the purposes of this talk, Bodansky defines geoengineering as large-scale, intentional efforts to change

the climate system. Climate engineering proposals include those aimed at removing GHGs from the atmosphere,

for example, through afforestation or iron fertilization of plankton in the oceans and those aimed at screening out

sunlight by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to create cloud condensation nuclei and hence more clouds, by

injecting dust into the stratosphere to screen out sunlight, by launching reflective balloons into the stratosphere, or

by space mirrors or screens to act as a constant shield from the sun. More

Climate Change Modification Schemes .(pdf document)

By Spencer Weart & American Institute of Physics

Weather as a force multiplier - Owning the weather in 2025 (.pdf document)

Geoengineering and Carbon Management (.pdf document)

By David Keith Carnegie Mellon Univerisity

Geoengineering Earth's Radiation Balance to Mitigate CO2 Induced Climate Change (.pdf document)

Bala Govindasamy and Ken Caldeira Climate and Carbon Cycle Group

Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory

Impact of Geoengineering Schemes on the Terrestrial Biosphere (.pdf document)

B. Govindasamy, K. Caldeira, S. Thompson, P.B. Duffy, C. Delire

Climate and Carbon Cycle Group Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory

Global Warming and Ice Ages - From the promoter of Atmospheric Geoengineering the Father of the Hydrogen bomb

Prospects for Physics Based-Modulation of Global Change covers the use of aluminum "dust" as scattering agents deployed in the startosphere by wide body aircraft to reflect sunlight. This is a .pdf document

E. Teller, L. Wood, R. Hyde

Geoengineering .pdf document

A report that covers a number of Geoengineering options such as stratospheric dust, aircraft exhaust and multiple balloon system,

Summary For Policy Makers - Global Change Mitigation

A Report of Working Group III of the IPCC

IPCC Says CO2 Emissions Can Be Deeply Reduced

Edward Teller Advances Global Warming Cure

Nuclear physicist Edward Teller says that the jury is still out on whether or not greenhouse gases are

leading to global warming, but that contemporary technology offers considerably cheaper options for

addressing any global warming effects than politicians and environmentalists are considering. More

CBS News Confirms Global Warming Experiments Underway

Sunscreen for Planet Earth

In 1979, physicist Freeman Dyson, in his characteristically prescient manner, proposed the deliberate, large-scale introduction of such fine particles into the upper atmosphere to offset global warming, which he thought even then
would eventually become a human concern. Some of my colleagues and I have recently surveyed the current technological prospects for such an introduction. More

Can Engineers Fix Global Warming?

``Another way to cool the planet is to reflect more sunlight back into space, before it heats up the earth and the atmosphere,'' says Benford. ``We could compensate for the warming effect of all greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution by reflecting less than 1 percent more of the sunlight.'' This could be achieved by installing
white roofs on homes and buildings, using lighter colored pavement for roads and parking lots, or, even more dramatically, by spreading dust in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight before it reaches the earth, Benford says. More

Quantifying and Minimizing Uncertainty of Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols

The clear-sky climate forcing by anthropogenic aerosols has been shown to be of sufficient magnitude to mask the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gases over large regions. Anthropogenic aerosols are composed of a variety of aerosol types including water-soluble inorganic species (e.g., sulfate, nitrate, ammonium), organic condensed species, elemental or black carbon, and mineral dust. Estimates of the clear-sky forcing by anthropogenic sulfate aerosols and by organic biomass-burning aerosols have been published previously. More

"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake

in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."

"You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland

and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

FAIR USE NOTICE. This document contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. GeoCrisis is making this article available in our efforts to advance the understanding of environmental, justice issues, corporate accountability, human rights, labor rights and social understanding. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.