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

Highlights

Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill To Tackle 'Weather Modification' (Newsweek, Jul 6) 

Can We Really Fix Climate Change? (StarTalk Plus, Jul 4) 

La géoingénierie (Les Clionautes, Jul 3) 

New NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts Axios (Alex Fitzpatrick, Jul 2) 

Fear, trust and other human factors are vital yet overlooked pieces of solar geoengineering research (Phys.org , Jul 1) 

Watch or Listen

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Can We Really Fix Climate Change? StarTalk Plus (Jul 4) 

La géoingénierie Les Clionautes (Jul 3) 

Community

Call for Abstract for CMIP Workshop  ‘Progress in modelling SRM through GeoMIP’ (Deadline Aug 13) 

Call for Abstracts for Virtual workshop series on Stratospheric Aerosol Injection by WCRP(Deadline Aug 15) 

DSG Residency Program: Supporting New Leadership in SRM Governance

SRM in the Media

Image Source: Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images in Newsweek

Top Stories

Marjorie Taylor Greene Mocked For Promoting 'Weather Modification' Ban As Texas Reels From Deadly Floods IBT (Morgan Music, Jul 7) 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill To Tackle 'Weather Modification' Newsweek (Kate Plummer, Jul 6) 

The UK Government is funding Geoengineering research; should they?  Not Just Climate (William McFarlane, Jul 6) 

Lawmaker sparks controversy after proposing law based on conspiracy theories: 'False claims' The Cool Down (Jenny Allison, Jul 4) 

Fear, trust and other human factors are vital yet overlooked pieces of solar geoengineering research Phys.org (Rebecca Cohen, Jul 1) 

Earth is absorbing too much sunlight: It’s a waking climate giant The Hill (Robert Tulip, Jun 19) 

Climate in the Media

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down The Conversation (Alex Sen Gupta, Jul 3) 

New NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts Axios (Alex Fitzpatrick, Jul 2) 

Tracking sea ice is ‘early warning system’ for global heating – but the US is halting data sharing The Guardian (Graham Readfearn, Jul 2) 

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years The Conversation (Steven Sherwood, Jun 27) 

Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections Carbon Brief (Dr May Chim, Jun 23) 

How the UK is testing a radical plan to refreeze the Arctic The Times (Rhys Blakely, Jun 22) 

In Academia

Articles

Impacts of Solar Radiation Modification on Temperature Extremes and Heatwaves in Southeast Asia Feng, Z., Tan, M. L., Mahamud, M. A., Chuah, J., & Zhang, F. (Weather and Climate Extremes, Jul 5)  

Reconstructing Risk–Risk Analysis to Support Effective Governance of High-Risk Climate Interventions McLaren, D. P. (European Journal of Risk Regulation, Jul 3)  

Comparing Future Projections of Warm Spells and Their Characteristics Under Climate Change and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection in CESM2 and UKESM1 Glade, I., Hurrell, J. W., & Lombardozzi, D. L. (Frontiers in Climate – accepted manuscript, Jul 1)  

Preprints

Cloud Susceptibility and Climate Sensitivity to Midlatitude Marine Cloud Brightening Hirasawa, H., Henry, M., Mason, A. M., Rasch, P. J., Doherty, S. J., Wood, R., Haywood, J., & Von Salzen, K. (ESS Open Archive, Jun 30)  

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Marine Low-Clouds in a Warmer Climate Prabhakaran, P., Myers, T. A., Hoffmann, F., & Feingold, G. (EGUsphere, Jun 27)  

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