https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/11/02/americas-defence-department-is-looking-for-rogue-geoengineers

Nov 2nd 2022 | FORT COLLINS

What if a country experiencing the bad effects of climate change—crop
failures, perhaps, or serious flooding—were to begin, unilaterally and
perhaps quietly, to try to modify the climate? Such a project, reckons
darpa, a research arm of America’s defence department, is possible. But it
could trigger chaos, and not just of the meteorological sort. The agency,
the overall objectives of which include preventing “strategic surprise”,
has therefore recently begun to pay for research into how such an event
might happen, and how to react to it.

Part of this work is pure science—upgrading the relevant computer models to
forecast changing weather patterns that could result from such an irregular
geoengineering project. The other part is to use a branch of maths called
game theory to identify those countries, or even non-state entities, which
might, if push came to shove, be most likely to give climate engineering a
go.

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Source: Economist

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