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A response to peer reviewed article “Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program.”

Recently a ‘peer reviewed’ article titled “Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program” (Christine Shearer, 2016) was published by Environmental Research Letters in an attempt to “establish a source of objective science that can inform public discourse” in relation to a secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program according to the authors Christine Shearer (Department of Earth System Science, University of California & Near Zero, Carnegie Institution for Science), Mick West (MetaBunk.org), Ken Caldeira (Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science) and Steven J Davis (Department of Earth System Science, University of California & Near Zero, Carnegie Institution for Science).

To anyone familiar with peer reviewed papers and data collection processes the poor design of the article and corresponding questionnaires[1], [2] is immediately apparent; most notably the use of non-scientific terms and ambiguous wording[3] that is liable to generate social desirability bias[4] within respondents. For example the use of the term “secret large-scale atmospheric spraying program” or “SLAP” rather than using familiar scientific terms e.g. geoengineering, solar radiation management etc. Let’s break it down.

Secret [5]

• kept hidden from others : known to only a few people
• keeping information hidden from others

Large Scale [6]

• involving many people or things <Their equipment is suitable for large-scale production.>
• covering or involving a large area <a large-scale map>

Atmospheric [7]

• the whole mass of air that surrounds the Earth
• a mass of gases that surround a planet or star
• the air in a particular place or area

Spraying Program [8]

• a plan of things that are done in order to achieve a specific result

Therefore it is reasonable to conclude answers submitted by respondents pertain only to a “Secret” “Large Scale” “Atmospheric” Spraying “Program”, thus excluding such things like geoengineering, solar radiation management, albeado modification, atmospheric climate intervention or even “known” large-scale atmospheric spraying programs etc.

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A Guide to Agenda 2030 (Part 1: Resources)

Attached to Agenda 2030 

(Post 2015 Agenda) 
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· 2030 Agenda
(aka Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development)

· The Future We Want

· RIO Declaration on Environment and Development 
(aka UN Conference for Sustainable Development, RIO20, Agenda21, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED))

· General Assembly Working Group

· Universal Declaration of Human Rights

· Millennium Declaration

· 2005 World Summit Outcome

· Declaration on the Right to Development


· World Summit for Social Development
 - Social Development in an Uncertain World (UNRISD Research Agenda 2010-2014)

· Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

· The Beijing Platform of Action

· Second UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
 - (Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024)

· Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States
 - SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway
 - Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (BPOA)

· Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
 - Sendai Framework
 - Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

· The Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
(aka Addis Ababa Action Agenda)

· Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries
(aka Istanbul Programme of Action)

· UN Charter

· Rome Declaration on Nutrition and Framework for Action 2015

· African Union Agenda 2063

· Report of the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals

· Doha Agenda
 - Doha Development Round
 - Doha Declaration on TRIPS Agreement and Public Health
 - The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements*
 - Compulsory Licensing for Public Health: A Guide and Model Documents for Implementation of the Doha Declaration Paragraph 6 Decision*
 - Implications of The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement And Public Health

· WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

· Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(aka TRIPS Agreement)

· Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

· International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (aka ICPD)

· Aid for Trade (OECD)

· Enhanced Integration Framework (EIF) for Trade Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

· Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organisation
(aka ILO )

 - Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis)
 - Labour of Standards (via ILO)

· Boosting global trade for Least Developed Countries

· UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

· Hong Kong Ministerial Mandate

· WHO Negotiations (Simulation*)

· Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (ICO) Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology
 - (See also UNESCO, United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

· Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

· Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

· Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report

· Global Sustainable Development Report

· Ministerial Declaration of the HLPF (High Level Political Forum) 2016 (Draft)

· Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review

· Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production