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Lowell Wood

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John Latham and engineer Stephen Salter hawked their idea of making marine clouds thicker and more reflective by whipping ocean water into a froth with giant pumps and eggbeaters

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Gregory Benford’s announcement that he wanted to “cut through red tape and demonstrate what could be done” by finding private sponsors for his plan to inject diatomaceous earth – the chalk like substance used in filtration systems and cat litter – into the Arctic stratosphere

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Yuri Izrael, head of the Moscow-based Institute of Global Climate and Ecology Studies, wrote to Russian president Vladimir Putin to make the case for immediately burning massive amounts of sulfur in the stratosphere

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Paul J. Crutzen, an atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate, proposed a scheme similar to Wood’s

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James Pollard Espy (1785–1860)

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1842 to Washington, D.C., where he was funded by the Navy and employed as the “national meteorologist” by the Army Medical Department

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Vincent Schaefer

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Howard T. Orville

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the Air Weather Service flew more than 2,600 cloud seeding sorties and expended 47,000 silver iodide flares over a period of approximately five years at an annual cost of some $3.6 million

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UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) was eventually ratified by nearly 70 nations, including the United States. Ironically, it entered into force in 1978

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Vladimir Zworykin, an RCA engineer noted for his early work in television technology

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“On the Possibilities of Weather Control,” Harry Wexler

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In 1965, the President’s Science Advisory Committee warned in a report called Restoring the Quality of Our Environment

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An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.

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Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research

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