Now, a powerful coalition of forces is quietly constellating around the idea of transforming the Earth’s atmosphere by simulating volcanic eruptions to counter the warming effects of carbon pollution. Engineering the planet’s climate system is attracting the attention of scientists, scientific societies, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed — nothing less than taking control of Earth’s climate system — the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning.
The Royal Society defines geoengineering as “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change” and divides methods into two types: carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, and solar radiation management aimed at reducing heat coming in or reflecting more of it out.
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https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-frightening-politics-of-geoengineering
My personal opinion would be that countries like China and Russia have already embarked upon Geo Engineering the weather and the drought affecting the western United States for the last 20 years is one of the results. There are many other consequences worldwide.
However, it also should be mentioned that without any interference with earth's weather things likely would be much much worse than they are already worldwide.
This is likely why governments don't tend to be saying anything about this publicly worldwide.
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