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Research on solar geoengineering, including its governance and potential environmental impacts.
Yes. Federal and state agencies, as well as scientific bodies, have openly acknowledged and documented —most commonly cloud seeding for precipitation enhancement—and federal law requires reporting of ...
Solar geoengineering research studies deliberate techniques to reflect a small fraction of sunlight back to space or otherwise alter Earth's radiative balance to temporarily reduce warming, most commo...
No U.S. state has, in the reporting provided, enacted stand‑alone laws that expressly authorize outdoor solar geoengineering research or pilot deployments while simultaneously banning full deployment;...
operate in a fragmented legal gray zone: no single federal statute expressly authorizes or comprehensively regulates outdoor SRM testing, but a patchwork of existing laws and agency authorities—most n...
experiments to date have been financed by a mix of university internal funds, philanthropic contributions channeled through university programs, venture-backed startups, and a handful of government in...
Solar geoengineering research provokes fraught governance, ethical and technical debates because it promises rapid temperature reduction while carrying uncertain physical impacts, uneven regional effe...