The ENMOD Treaty

There are also major foreign policy concerns, beginning with the international ENMOD treaty�the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use ot Environmental Modification Techniques, ratified by the United Nations in 1978 in response to the United States' use of silver iodide cloud seeding to alter the weather over the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye was an effort to "make mud, not war" to slow North Vietnamese supply lines by lengthening the monsoon season.^^^ The treaty outlaws "deliberate manipulation" of "the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space."^^'' Each of its seventy-four signatory countries agreed not to "engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting, or severe effects." So if a country interpreted either geoengineering or its cessation as a hostile act, we could find ourselves at war over the climate.

Notes:

Prohibits geoengineering, such as agent orange, as a tactic in war.

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Fool Me Twice

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Otto , Shawn Lawrence (2011-10-11), Fool Me Twice, Rodale Press, Retrieved on 2013-01-08

Source Material [books.google.com]

Folksonomies: politics science