Coalition forGeo-Engineering Research

Source Library

The documents behind the conversation.

Geo-engineering is not a fringe subject in the official record. This library collects 76 primary sources, government hearings, agency research plans, treaties, peer-reviewed journal articles, and press coverage, so anyone can read the evidence directly instead of taking our word for it.
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How to use this library

Primary sources, cited plainly

We list each document with its publisher, date, and format, and we link to the original wherever a stable public copy exists. Where a source sits outside the mainstream literature, we say so. Readers should judge the evidence, not the framing.

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Government & treaty records

Congressional hearings, agency research plans, declassified studies, and binding international instruments from the U.S., Canada, and the EU.

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Peer-reviewed science

Published research on stratospheric aerosol injection, cloud seeding, engineered ice-nucleating particles, and human health effects.

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Reports & governance

Institutional assessments and policy analysis, including work that argues for geo-engineering and work that argues against it.

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Press coverage

Mainstream reporting on federal funding, field experiments, and the programs that were launched or halted.

What this literature assesses

Health and environmental topics commonly examined across these sources

  • Respiratory effects from fine particulate matter
  • Ozone depletion and recovery
  • Acid deposition
  • Changes in precipitation patterns
  • Ecosystem impacts
  • Visibility reduction
  • Stratospheric chemistry
  • Atmospheric transport and deposition
  • Exposure pathways and uncertainty analyses

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Filter by category or search across every title, agency, journal, and year. Links open the original document in a new tab.

76 sources, updated as new records are published

U.S. government & congressional records

Hearings, agency research plans, statutes, and federal science programs addressing weather modification and solar radiation modification.

U.S. historical & declassified records

Mid-century federal weather-modification and stratospheric-deposition studies, including work sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.

Canadian government & academic records

Canadian federal strategy documents, the bilateral weather-modification information agreement, and Canadian academic work on climate engineering.

Europe & international bodies

European Commission advice, EU research programs, UN treaty instruments, and international assessment reports.

Peer-reviewed journal literature

Published research on stratospheric aerosol injection, marine cloud brightening, engineered ice-nucleating particles, aerosol chemistry, and the occupational and public-health effects of atmospheric release.

Reports, assessments & governance analysis

Institutional assessments, policy briefs, and governance analysis from research institutes, universities, and advocacy organizations.

Press & media coverage

Mainstream reporting on federal geo-engineering funding, field experiments, and the programs that were launched or halted.

Editorial standard

Why we publish sources we don't necessarily agree with.

This library includes documents that reach opposite conclusions. Federal research plans that treat solar radiation modification as a legitimate option sit alongside assessments arguing for an outright moratorium. Both belong here.

Listing a source is not an endorsement of its conclusions, and it is not a claim by the Coalition that any particular program is operating in any particular place. Where a document was published outside the major peer-reviewed journals, or where it is a working draft rather than a final paper, the entry says so.

Our own findings are published separately, with methodology and accredited laboratory results attached. If you spot a broken link, a superseded document, or a citation we've gotten wrong, please tell us and we'll correct it.

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