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Statement on the Introduction of H.R.5519 - Atmospheric Climate Intervention Research Act
Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining, released the following statement on the introduction of H.R. 5519 by Congressman Jerry McNerney:
Montreal Protocol Scientific Assessment Panel: Assessment of Potential Risks to the Ozone Layer
In 2019, the United Nations Montreal Protocol Scientific Assessment Panel passed a resolution to include “solar radiation management research” in its next Ozone Assessment report evaluating potential risks to the ozone layer.
SilverLining Unveils Interactive Roadmap for Research and to Advance Understanding of Near-Term Climate Risk and Intervention. The 5-year digital roadmap includes ambitious improvements to climate observations and models and study of a portfolio of rapid interventions.
Rapid and effective reporting, regulation and enforcement for weather modification and climate intervention activities would be best achieved in a structure in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides research and analysis of weather and climate impacts in support of a program of registration, permitting and enforcement by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To achieve this, NOAA should expand relevant research and, with EPA, collaborate in the design of relevant processes. Within this, to support critical research, small-scale emissive research studies should be supported and exempted from permitting requirements for impact-scale activities.
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is a promising approach to reducing near-term climate impacts and risks by dispersing sea salt particles (aerosols) into low marine clouds to make them reflect slightly more sunlight back into space to cool the climate.