1 . 1 Weather and Climate Engineering
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چکیده
I prepared a position paper on “Weather and Climate Engineering” for a workshop on “Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System” organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) held in Frankfurt, Germany in March 2008. The position paper will eventually be a chapter in a book. I think it is appropriate to share with the weather modification community the main points of this position paper. The position paper highlights the areas of greatest progress in weather modification research noting the major successes and failures. In this paper I will only mention the topics I covered and will focus on the lessons learned from cloud seeding that are relevant to climate engineering. I will mainly focus here on climate engineering which I define as a subset of the overall scheme of geoengineering dealing specifically with modifying the climate of Earth. I will conclude with recommendations and concerns I have about implementing climate engineering strategies.
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