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October 2010

US government reports on geoengineering

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1. Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN), chair of the House Science and Technology Committee just released a report, Engineering the Climate: Research Needs and Strategies for International Collaboration. Press release here…

2. The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) also has released one of its two studies, CLIMATE CHANGE: A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus Federal Geoengineering Research and Inform Governance Efforts

3. The Congressional Research Service also has some reports, International Governance of Geoengineering AND Congressional Research Service,
Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy

Journalistic Misfeasance

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…on October 6th, in Washington, D.C., the Woodrow Wilson Center will be the site of a presentation by James Rodger Fleming, a professor of science, technology and society at Colby College and author of “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.”

If, as the Washington Post article suggests, there is an interest in geoengineering, Fleming writes that “Geoengineering is in fact untested and dangerous. We don’t understand it, we can’t test it on smaller than planetary scales, and we don’t have the political capital, wisdom, or will to govern it.” Read the entire article…