Run by physicist Jane Long of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, it will cover scientific and geopolitical implications of a climate-modification research program.
The risk of overheating in UK dwellings is predicted to increase due to anthropogenic climate change and local urban climate modification leading to an increased urban heat island effect.
I have no expectation or interest in developing a personal revenue stream based upon the use of these patents for climate modification".. Rasch added: "I don't feel there is any conflict of interest.
What's more the possibility of targeted climate modification would have obvious and terrifying consequences if used as a weapon of war.
This research has prompted scientists to start developing techniques of climate modification that may have the ability to counteract the effects of a warming planet.
Gardiner was in Sydney for a two-day symposium that aimed to grapple with the moral and ethical consequences of geoengineering, also known as climate modification.
Geoengineering – also known as climate engineering or climate modification - comes in as many flavours as might have been on offer at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
It's the same Thomas Malone who, amid predictions of weaponized hurricanes, wonders aloud whether "large-scale climate modification will be effected inadvertently" from rising levels of carbon dioxide.
If the promises made by geoengineering erode the political incentives requiring polluters to cut their emissions, will we see fossil fuel corporations begin lobbying to get political endorsement for climate modification?
Jane Long, an associate director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the panel's co-chairwoman, said that by spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, human activity was already engaged in climate modification.
At the time of the first Earth Day, the term "global warming" was barely in circulation — the relatively small group of scientists concerned about the consequences of rising CO2 levels used the phrase "inadvertent climate modification" — and actual warming had yet to be clearly detected.
