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The purpose of the study is to look ‘generally on the potential impacts of deploying these technologies, including possible environmental, economic and national security concerns,’ according to the NAS website.
The CIA told U.S. news website Mother Jones: ‘It’s natural that on a subject like climate change the Agency would work with scientists to better understand the phenomenon and its implications on national security.’
Geoengineering is a controversial idea that involves the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climatic system with the aim of combating global warming- in this case to change the weather.
