This could make a solid plot for a Tom-Clancy-style thriller novel. Imagine a group of ecoterrorists that hijacks these satellites and some orbital bombardment satellites and starts dropping bombs on the carbon "leaks". And then a certain Refraction Numeral counterterrorist group gets sent in to stop them. All interspersed with heaps of exposition around various organizations and military technologies that may or may not have any basis in reality.
