Geo-engineering update

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Submitted by adam ricketson on Thu, 2009-12-31 09:32.

It seems that Russia is taking the lead in the development of technologies that actively modify local climate and protect the global climate.

  1. Moscow attempts to have a snow-free winter (but misses the mark). I do not know how much they managed to reduce snowfall.
  2.  The Russian space agency plans to divert an asteroid that has a small risk of hitting Earth.
Global warming is just the beginning of how our technologies will enable us to influence our environments on an ever grander scale.

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Weather of Mass Destruction?

#7867 On Fri, 2010 01 01 15:11 FreedomDemocrats said,

Will geo-engineering become the next "WMD" scare? Preemptive wars started to prevent the world's most dangerous dictators from getting their hands on the world's most dangerous weapons--weather altering technologies?

I picked up a book once at a used bookstore about geo-engineering from the 1970s or 1980s. Russia's interest in the science of geo-engineering isn't that new. With such a large landmass near/in the Arctic, it has a clear interest in what can be done to develop more ice-free ports, expanded agriculture, and the like.

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