The agency is being asked to strengthen a toothless rule that requires only a heads-up before experiments to modify the weather.
Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an entrepreneur approaches the city’s mayor with an extraordinary offer.
But meddling with the climate is contentious, and efforts to regulate — or even study — geoengineering on a large scale have proven difficult both domestically and internationally.with the Commerce Department 10 days before they do so, thanks to a law from the 1970s that requires reporting of efforts to modify the weather.
It’s been on his mind for a few years, Bookbinder said, since he started wondering about “the next big problem that we’re not thinking about yet.” On a smaller scale, he’s hoping to get the regulatory ball rolling by prodding the U.S. government to update 1970s-era rules that track efforts to modify the weather.
NOAA is currently leading a congressionally mandated research effort investigating “natural and human activities that might alter the reflectivity and radiative balance of the atmosphere” and the potential impact of those activities, according to the That “would help the federal government prevent harm and track activities until or unless Congress chooses to take legislative action or all or any appropriate federal agencies undertake full notice-and-comment rulemaking,” they wrote.
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