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Welcome to our weekly round-up of SRM news and events.  

Highlights

London Climate Action Week: Climate Tech Time – Hope in Darkness: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong? (Jun 25)


New Florida law bans weather modification and geoengineering (Florida’s Voice, Jun 20)


E-petition debate relating to geo-engineering and the environment (UK Parliament, Jun 23)


Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky? (New Scientist, Jun 17) 


Stratospheric aerosol injection can weaken the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect (Communications Earth & Environment, Jun 20) 


The effect of solar radiation modification on agroclimatic indices in Africa (Environmental Research: Climate – accepted manuscript, Jun 19) 

Watch or Listen

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E-petition debate relating to geo-engineering and the environment - Monday 23 June 2025 UK Parliament (Jun 23)


Why is the UK trying to 'dim the sun' with solar geoengineering? Roundtable (Jun 22) 


Special Episode – Should the UK ban geoengineering? UK debates outlawing climate interventions Nick Breeze ClimateGenn (Jun 20) 


Planetary Health Check 2025 Facing Future (Jun 19)


Sessions from Degrees Global Forum The Degrees Initiative & SRM360 

Community

London Climate Action Week: Climate Tech Time – Hope in Darkness: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong? (Jun 25)


Call for Abstracts: Nordics, Baltics and the Arctic in Transition - Uncertainties and Opportunities for Risk Analysis The Society of Risk Analysis Europe - Nordic Chapter, IDA Risk and University College Copenhagen 


Solar geoengineering: A hopeful and frightening response to climate change Cascade Institute (Jun 26) 

SRM in the Media

Image Source: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/ Tallahassee Democrat


Top Stories


Florida bans 'chemtrails' with new geoengineering and weather modification law Tallahassee Democrat (Jun 23) 


Why geoengineering is no longer a complete taboo for scientists New Scientist (Madeline Cuff, Jun 23) 


The plan to 'turn off' the Sun was a geoengineering project that studied releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and combat global warming CPG (Bruno Teles, Jun 21) 


Researchers call for urgent exploration of methods to cool Earth The Guardian (Paul Brown, Jun 20) 


New Florida law bans weather modification and geoengineering Florida’s Voice (Jun 20) 


Britain prepares for hostile nations, actors to weaponize the sun – report The Jerusalem Post (Jun 19) 


Geoengineering in the Age of Distrust: Are We Ready? The New Climate. (Ben Shread-Hewitt, Jun 18) 


ICAN Challenges British Government’s Geoengineering Experiments to Dim the Sun ICAN (Jun 18) 


AbibiNsoma Foundation and FIDEP Foundation call for democratic oversight of emerging climate technologies, supports global non-use agreement on Solar Geoengineering Joy Online (AbibiNsoma Foundation , Jun 18)  


Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky? New Scientist (James Dineen, Jun 17) 


El Gobierno británico y su preocupación sobre la utilización de armas meteorológicas por parte de Rusia ‘The British Government and its concern about Russia's use of meteorological weapons’ Marca (Jun 16) 



Climate in the Media

What Conflict in the Middle East Means for Climate Change Time (Justin Worland, Jun 24) 


Can the Arctic Freeze Again? Scientific Trial Begins in the UK Zamin (Jun 23)


Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn BBC (Mark Poynting, Jun 19) 


Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says The Guardian (Damian Carrington, Jun 19) 


Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible New Scientist (Madeline Cuff, Jun 19) 


Bonn Bulletin: Climate talks delayed by agenda fight Climate Home News (Jun 16) 

In Academia

Articles


Stratospheric aerosol injection can weaken the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect He, H., Soden, B. J., Vecchi, G. A., Yang, W. (Communications Earth & Environment, Jun 20) 


The effect of solar radiation modification on agroclimatic indices in Africa Egbebiyi, T. S., Ajayi, V., Arowolo, A., Ogunniyi, J., Ogunjo, S. (Environmental Research: Climate – accepted manuscript, Jun 19) 


Assessing changes in atmospheric rivers under stratospheric aerosol injection using ARISE-SAI-1.5 Quagraine, K. T., O'Brien, T. A., Quagraine, K. A., Kravitz, B., Tilmes, S. (Environmental Research: Climate – accepted manuscript, Jun 19) 


Stratospheric Aerosol Intervention experiment for the Chemistry–Climate Model Initiative Tilmes, S., Bednarz, E. M., Jörimann, A., Visioni, D., Kinnison, D. E., Chiodo, G., Plummer, D. (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Jun 18) 


Southeast Asia’s Extreme Precipitation Response to Solar Radiation Management with GLENS Simulations Kuswanto, H., Fauzi, F., Miftahurrohmah, B., Tan, M. L., Do, H. X. (Atmosphere, Jun 15) 


Preprints 


Coupling Effect between Climate Change and Net Radiation Using Solar Geoengineering Techniques and Climate Scenarios Intervention Over West Africa Adenuga, K. P. (SSRN, Jun 19) 

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