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Ethics of Geoengineering »  The CIA Wants To Control the
Climate!!!!11!  No, not really.  But that's the conclusion
people are getting from a story published initially at Mother
Jones, and picked up around the web. The CIA -- along with NASA,
NOAA, and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) -- is funding
a $630,000 NAS project to study geoengineering. Not how to do
it, but what the broader ramifications are for global politics.
The announcement at the NAS gives the details:  An ad hoc
committee will conduct a technical evaluation of a limited
number of proposed geoengineering techniques, including examples
of both solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide
removal (CDR) techniques, and comment generally on the potential
impacts of deploying these technologies, including possible
environmental, economic, and national security concerns. The
study will:  1. Evaluate what is currently known about the
science of several (3-4) selected exam