List of Abbreviations
ACI: Atmospheric Climate Intervention
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
AWS: Air Weather Service
BESK: Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator
CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage
CCSP: Climate Change Science Program
CCTP: Climate Change Technology Program
CDR: Carbon Dioxide Removal
CDRMIP: Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project
CO2: Carbon Dioxide
CRS: Congressional Research Service
DAC: Direct Air Capture
DARPA: Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
DOD: United States Department of Defence
DOE: United States Department of Energy
DOS: United States Department of State
ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
ENMOD : Environmental Modification Convention
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
FDsys: Federal Digital System
GAO: Government Accountability Office
GCEP: Global Climate and Energy Project
GCM: General Circulation Model
GeoMIP: Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project
IGY: International Geophysical Year
IPCC: United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NAS: National Academy of Sciences
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
NCAR : National Center for Atmospheric Research
NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation
NIAC: National Institute for Advanced Concepts
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSF: National Science Foundation
NWS: National Weather Service
OF: Ocean Fertilisation
OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy
PSAC: President’s Science Advisory Committee
RAND: Corporation Research and Development Corporation
ScoPEx: Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment
SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering
SRM: Solar Radiation Management
UK: United Kingdom
UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
US: United States of America
USDA : United States Department of Agriculture
USGCRP: US Global Change Research Program
USGS : United States Geological Survey
WHOI : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO: World Meteorological Organization