Climate change or weather modification?
What role is weather modification having on climate change? If nobody reports on the impact of geoengineering, I won't worry about the impact of my gas-burning car.
When I was a kid, I was scared of killer bees. The media told us that swarms of deadly Africanized bees were going to descend on Oklahoma sometime before my 10th birthday. We were supposed to have died in a cloud of green smog by the late 70s. New York was supposed to have been under water by the time I graduated high school in 1987. Overpopulation was definitely going to be the end of humanity, and we were supposed to have reached peak oil by the mid 1990s.
All of these were lies based on “science.” As a result, I lived much of my younger life in unnecessary, manufactured fear about the planet. And the same is true today. People continue to lie about the climate by the selective use of scientific data.
I am not saying that the climate is not changing. I’m not even saying that climate change is not man-made. I don’t really know. But it seems to me that one vital part of the equation is never discussed. You never hear about the fact that governments around the world have been working on weather modification for years. Weather warfare and geoengineering are never discussed in the apocalyptic climate fear mongering of the mainstream media.
There are companies in the business of helping governments and organizations change the weather. But have you ever heard a report in the mainstream media about the effect these companies are having on climate change? I haven’t.
If the climate is changing, it seems we’re changing it intentionally! And the technology we use got its start, like most things, with the military.
According to Wikipedia, “Following the US decision of July 1972 to renounce the use of climate modification techniques [See Operation Popeye] for hostile purposes, the 1973 resolution by the US Senate calling for an international agreement ‘prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war’, and an in-depth review by the Department of Defense of the military aspects of weather and other environmental modification techniques, US decided to seek agreement with the Soviet Union to explore the possibilities of an international agreement.”
In 1977 the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques resulted in a treaty, but weather modification has NOT stopped. It’s more common than ever.
Whether it’s a program in California to increase the snow pack in the winter, a project in Oklahoma to increase rainfall in summer, or a project in Beijing to make sure they don’t lose face or money due to rain at the Olympics, we’re causing climate change on purpose.
So the question is begging to be asked: What role is weather modification having on climate change?
I asked a respected climatologist in Washington this question, and he said that there are no military or government programs.... the “conspiracy theories (military programs, chemtrails, etc) are without any basis.”
I responded that Tennessee just recently passed a bill banning "geoengineering experiments" and "intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere." Additionally, the following states have passed similar measures:
Rhode Island introduced SB2540
New Hampshire entered HB1700
Illinois entered SB134
South Dakota entered SB215
Connecticut entered SB302
I haven’t heard back yet.
So, it’s clear weather modification or geoengineering exists, but what impact it’s having is apparently anybody’s guess. This information I don’t think is ever figured into the climate models.
There are currently two purposes for geoengineering, and they have become conflated:
There's the type mentioned above wherein people change the climate for their own needs: to win a war, to ensure events won't be cancelled or money lost due to rain, to ensure that people have enough to drink. And then there's the new type in which scientists do things (or at least plan to do things) like release sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to protect us from climate change.
It seems we're protecting ourselves from the changes that we deliberately make. The climate scientist I spoke with did say that there is minimal global warming from human endeavors. So, unless we know exactly what impact geoengineering efforts are making, I see no reason why I should feel bad about cooking with a gas stove or driving a gas car. In fact, I feel it may be time for me to finally get that diesel truck I been wanting.
Don’t fear the weather. Fear the fearmongers.