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

Highlights

Administrator Zeldin Announces New Online Resources on Contrails and Geoengineering (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Jul 10) 

EPA head promises 'total transparency' on geoengineering and contrails as weather conspiracy theories swirl (NBC News, Jul 10) 

The Escalation of Extreme Weather: How Climate Change is Fueling Unprecedented Disasters (The Aspen Institute, Jul 10) 

The Interaction of Solar Radiation Modification with Earth System Tipping Elements (Earth System Dynamics, Jul 10) 

Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay (New Scientist, Jul 8) 

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Live Discussion: Making sense of extreme heat and solar geoengineering SRM360 (Jul 29)

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Planetary Boundaries: Navigating Our Limits Climate Emergency Forum (Jul 13) 

Administrator Zeldin Announces New Online Resources on Contrails and Geoengineering U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Jul 10) 

Rainmaker CEO addresses concerns about cloud seeding after Texas floods Fox News (Jul 10) 

The Escalation of Extreme Weather: How Climate Change is Fueling Unprecedented Disasters The Aspen Institute (Jul 10) 

How is Geopolitics of GeoEngineering shaping the Weather? Turing Life and Earth (Jul 10) 

SRM in the Media

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Top Stories

Trump’s Tax Law Throws Lifeline to Unloved Energy and Climate Sectors Bloomberg (Michelle Ma, Jul 14) 

Unnatural Disasters: The Next Front in Russia’s Hybrid War RUSI (Matt Ince, Jul 14)

Zeldin confronts furor over weather tampering, vows ‘total transparency’ Politico Greenwire (Kevin Bogardus & Ellie Borst, Jul 10) 

Zeldin cites ‘legitimate questions’ about contrails as EPA launches webpage to combat conspiracy The Hill (Rachel Frazin, Jul 10) 

EPA head promises 'total transparency' on geoengineering and contrails as weather conspiracy theories swirl NBC News (Pilar Melendez & Evan Bush, Jul 10) 

Trump’s EPA Chief Tried to Debunk Chemtrails, but Nobody Actually Read the Report Rolling Stone (Miles Klee, Jul 10) 

Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ Nature Hoy (Mariana Salaverria, Jul 10) 

Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts Europe Says (Josh Christenson, Jul 10) 

Reduce, remove, reflect: The three Rs that could limit global warming Phys.og (Dante McGrath, Jul 8)

Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ Carbon Brief (Jul 8) 

Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats WIRED (David Gilbert & Molly Taft, Jul 8) 

Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay New Scientist (Michael Le Page, Jul 8) 

Climate in the Media

Extreme weather is the UK's new normal, says Met Office Met Office (Justin Rowlatt, Jul 14) 

‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline The Guardian (María de los Ángeles Orfila, Jul 11) 

Artificial cooling 'urgent' for Great Barrier Reef after warming spike New Scientist (Madeline Cuff, Jul 11) 

Why Armed Forces Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change Bloomberg (Jul 10) 

Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected The Conversation (Joyce Kimutai, Jul 2) 

In Academia

Articles

Multi-Risk Governance of Solar Radiation Modification Wiener, J. B., Felgenhauer, T., Borsuk, M. E. (European Journal of Risk Regulation, Jul 10) 

The Interaction of Solar Radiation Modification with Earth System Tipping Elements Futerman, G., Adhikari, M., Duffey, A., Fan, Y., Gurevitch, J., Irvine, P., Wieners, C. (Earth System Dynamics, Jul 10) 

Assessing the Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on Precipitation Extremes in Africa Using the ARISE-SAI-1.5 Dataset Quagraine, K. A., Tye, M. R., Quagraine, K. T., Tilmes, S., Simpson, I., Nkrumah, F., Egbebiyi, T. S., Odoulami, R. C., Klutse, N. A. B. (Environmental Research: Climate - accepted manuscript, Jul 10) 

Integrating a Comprehensive Index and the SWAT+ Model to Assess Drought Characteristics and Risks Under Solar Radiation Modification Du, H., Tan, M. L., Samat, N., Chen, Z., Zhang, F. (Ecological Indicators, Jul 8) 

Book Chapters

Regulating Geoengineering Davies, G. (Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene, Jul 8) 

Why Researching Solar Radiation Management Technologies Is Essential and Governable Simon, M., Brent, K., McGee, J., McDonald, J. (Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene, Jul 8) 

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