Revealed us senate document confirms national and global. The earths atmosphere is a complex dynamical, physical, and chemical system. Climate engineering fact and photo summary climate. This article reveals a us congressional report that further confirms the involvement of the us government in climate modification and weather warfare programs.
Managing climate stabilisation one of the largest barriers to attempting to slow or reverse climate change has been the widespread perception16 that it cannot be accomplished under current technologic, demographic, and economic. Climate geoengineering technologies can be divided into three broad areas. The continuing rise in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, mainly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, is driving changes in the earths climate. To maintain a constant temperature, earth radiates energy to space at the same rate. This extensive congressional document is a revealing and detailed addition to the existing data that proves geoengineering programs are real, and ongoing. Exposing the climate geoengineering coverup there are several live presentations on the subject of climate engineering available on the windows below. Research is also shedding light on actions that might be taken to limit the magnitude of.
Chief scientist designate of the united nations environment. Managing climate stabilisation one of the largest barriers to attempting to slow or reverse climate change has been the widespread perception that it cannot be accomplished under current technological, demographic, and economic conditions e. How well we can predict the climate and climate change, of course, depends on our knowledge, but what the climate is and whether there is climate change is indepen. Published annually since 2005, the climate change performance index ccpi is an independent monitoring tool for tracking countries climate protection. Fink phd vice president for research and strategic partnerships and professor of geology, office of research and strategic partnerships, department of geology, portland state university, portland, or, usa. This can be traced to the early years of the cold war, when scientists in both the united states and the soviet union devoted considerable funds to controlling the weather as part of their military strategy. The most prominent subcategory of climate engineering is solar radiation management. Geoengineering cities to stabilise climate jonathan h. The longterm consequences will be exceedingly threatening, especially if nations continue business as usual in the coming decades. Geoengineering watch exposing the climate engineering. The global climate risk index 2020 analyses to what extent countries and. Federal government has repeatedly denied their existence.
Geoengineering must be considered weather and biological warfare due to the endless list of catastrophic downstream impacts and effects. Geoengineering is the intentional largescale technological manipulation of earth systems in the stratosphere or ocean or in the ground in an attempt to delay or reduce climate change. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. They are organized by the date of the documents publication.
The impacts and costs of climate change european commission. While there is no complete record of the scores of weather and climate control projects in dozens of countries, this map is the first attempt to document the expanding scope of research and experimentation. The study, chaired by professor john shepherd frs, was researched and written over a period of twelve months by twelve leading academics representing science, economics, law and social science. After decades of denial, the us government uses the nih to reveal the obvious truth. Climate intervention is no substitute for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and adaptation efforts aimed at reducing the negative consequences of climate change. The idea of climate today is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate. Relying upon the efforts of over forty contributing au.
Climate engineering under the paris agreement a legal and policy primer 1 executive summary while the paris agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to no more than 2c a goal that appears unlikely to be achieved in the absence of significant amounts. Aug 02, 2017 danea wigington mans attempt to engineer earths climate and life support systems is the most destructive and deadly endeavor ever launched by the military industrial complex and global governments. Governance and technology policy congressional research service summary climate change policies at both the national and international levels have traditionally focused on measures to mitigate greenhouse gas ghg emissions and to adapt to the actual or anticipated impacts of changes in the climate. This statement sets out the governments view on research, development, deployment and regulation of geoengineering, while acknowledging the priority is to tackle the root cause of climate. This statement sets out the governments view on research, development, deployment and regulation of geoengineering, while acknowledging the priority is to tackle the root cause of climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and adapting to those impacts that are unavoidable. Climate files is an archival database of news, information and documents. Weather and climate modification geoengineering watch. In general, the goal of geoengineering would be to counteract the effect of human greenhouse gas emissions or their consequences. A simplified picture of earths energy balance, showing incoming sunlight delivering energy to earth. However, as our planet enters a period of changing climate never before experienced in recorded human history, interest is growing in the potential for deliberate intervention in. Etc group publishes a world map of geoengineering the largescale manipulation of earth or climate systems.
Enormous progress has been made in increasing our understanding of climate change and its causes, and a clearer picture of current and future impacts is emerging. Because earth is cooler than the sun, it radiates not visible light but infrared energy. In principle, all geoengineering options could be abandoned on short notice, with either an instant cessation of direct climate effects or a small time lag after abandonment. Geoengineering the climate 247 altering planetary albedo 8, climate model simulation of the effect of albedo geoengineering 9, improved scienti. Unattainable goals from agenda 21, the paris accord, agenda 2030, and the green new deal lead to calls for geoengineering, yet nobody is in charge of the governing this dangerous technology. Recent media interest in the topic combined with growing public concern of climate change has changed a previously academic term to one in general use and in 2010 geoengineering entered the oxford english dictionary as the modification of the global environment or the climate in order to counter or ameliorate climate change. Climate geoengineering focuses on ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or on offsetting warming effects by targeting the overall amount of solar energy hitting the earth. Mar 11, 2019 climate engineering, an application of geoengineering, is the deliberate and largescale intervention in earths climatic system with the aim of reducing global warmingclimate engineering has two. Engineering sustainability portland state university.
Since the very inception of the chemical geoengineeering programs, the u. Climate is an enduring idea and also a powerful one. Geoengineering is the idea of applying planetary engineering to earth. Government finally admits chemical geoengineering via. The effects of global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions ghgs are.
However, the full 6 climate response to this geoengineering scheme is currently poorly under7 stood. Climate intervention reports 2015 climate change at the. Dynamic processes cover a large range of scales from the microscopicscale. Take folate and vitamins b12 and b6 and eating sulfurcontaining foods such as broccoli, collards, kale, daikon radish, garlic, onions, and omega3 eggs. Following on from carbon capture volume 29 in this series, geoengineering of the climate system presents an overview of the technologies currently being considered as large scale solutions to climate change, and considers some of the possible benefits and disadvantages of each.
Climate files is a project of the climate investigations center and is made possible. Weather and climate the structure of the atmosphere surrounding the earth is a gaseous envelope or atmosphere, held in place by the planets gravitational attraction. If you are new to this subject, the second red window below, climate engineering, a clear and present danger is a recommended starting point for an overall summary presentation. Synthesis report potsdam institute for climate impact research. The commission held eleven meetings supplemented by many days. Geoengineering refers to deliberate, often globalscale, manipulations of the climate system. Much of the background work for the treatment of the other aspects of the problem was carried out under national science foundation grants or contracts, reports of which research and study are to be published as stated in the appendix. Carbon cycle climate feedbacks between modifying the planetary albedo and. Nov 19, 2017 government finally admits chemical geoengineering via chemtrail operations. Greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are warming the earth and causing changes in the global climate.
Special report climate engineering under the paris agreement. Documents compiled here are from various sources and are derived from more than 20 years of research and data collection. Nov 27, 2015 working out climates using the climate cookbook posted on november 27, 2015 by patrick in this guide we will be attempting to apply realistic climates to a map of our world, ending up with something like this, here each colour denotes a different climate. Geoengineering, purposely altering earths climate, may decrease the effects of climate change. Geoengineering is the intentional, largescale technological manipulation of the earths systems, often discussed as a technofix for combating climate change. Though the framework convention did not define dangerous, that level is now generally considered to be about 450 parts per million ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The european transdisciplinary assessment of climate engineering.
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