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I would think they could hold several hundred thousand tonne.
I elected to concentrate attention on the above four agencies, since their programs, as set forth in the ICAS Select Panel Report, project to over 98% of the total national weather modification activity in 1970. Because the programs of the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were such a small part of the total, they were not reviewed in detail.
9. There must be regulation and control of weather modification activities, especially as those activities increase in magnitude and frequency and become international in scope. This is required especially to provide a mechanism for protection against harmful consequences of weather modification activity but also to permit valid experimentation.
"Project Skyfire of the U.S. Forest Service is performing an active research program aimed at suppression of lightning which causes some 10,000 forest fires annually in the United States. A field experiment is testing the effects of very heavy seeding with silver iodide on lightning storms. The results to date show a 32 percent reduction in cloud-to-ground lightning from seeded storms.
The type of lightning discharge most likely to ignite forest fires has been identified.
A program at the University of Wyoming devoted to the study of cap clouds has produced amounts of water which appear to offer promise of economic significance.
So many nuclei could be produced with silver -iodide smoke that calculations indicated all the air of the United States could be nucleated at one time with a few pounds of silver iodide, so that the air would contain one particle of silver iodide per cubic inch--far more than the number of ice nuclei occurring normally under natural conditions.
"Theory has predicted and experiments are confirming the fact that a few pounds of silver iodide released into the atmosphere in the form of fine particles can exercise a profound influence over the weather hundreds c£ miles away from the point of release. Clearly no private individual or group can be permitted to carry on operations likely to affect weather conditions over thousands or hundreds of thousands of square miles.
Aloysius the Gaul
It never ceases to amuse me how people can look at something, see what isn't there, and not bother to check anything about it before bursting into print.
sunnynights
Aloysius the Gaul
It never ceases to amuse me how people can look at something, see what isn't there, and not bother to check anything about it before bursting into print.
So we are all just to take your word for it now are we???
You have read it all.
you have concluded it's nothing at all.
You are telling everyone don't bother you have been over it, the other side is lying.
Give your self a
network dude
reply to post by sunnynights
Hell no, I encourage everyone to read it. Perhaps you might try and then you could DISCUSS it instead of discussing me.
Please let me know if you find the mental faculties to talk about what in that report troubles you.
The storm had weakened by 13 m s-1 between the first and second eye penetrations.
Even on the first penetration, airborne radar showed that the eyewall cloud towers were dying.
Rapid deepening of Erin ensued on 8 and 9 September with a peak maximum sustained wind of 105 kt (54 m s-1) briefly attained by 1800 UTC 9 September. Thereafter Erin maintained this intensity level until 1200 UTC 10 September, at which point the maximum wind speed began to weaken. As the CAMEX-4 mission was flown into Erin, the storm weakened 25 kt (13 m s-1) while moving toward the northwest at approximately 8–10 kt (4–5 m s-1). On 11 September, a more gradual weakening commenced and the storm recurved sharply toward the east.
The weakening of Erin’s convective towers is a direct indication of the storm’s decrease in strength over the ensuing two to three hours between these two ER-2 overflights.
sunnynights
Aloysius the Gaul
It never ceases to amuse me how people can look at something, see what isn't there, and not bother to check anything about it before bursting into print.
So we are all just to take your word for it now are we???
You have read it all.
you have concluded it's nothing at all.
You are telling everyone don't bother you have been over it, the other side is lying.
Give your self a
The ER-2 goes to 70,00 feet? Gosh - I'd never have realised......if it weren't for the fact that it is a version of the U-2 that NASA has been operating since 1981!
Adding to the general perception that Erin was nothing of particular interest to New Yorkers in Sept 2001:
you cannot do geoengineering in "small isolated areas around the planet" - geo-engineering, BY DEFINITION, is altering the climate OF HET WHOLE PLANET.
Just in case anyone missed it by, say, not bothering to read it, this link shows why Hurricane Erin changed course - a massive high pressure system covering the whole of the Mideast & eastern USA driving eastwards.
chemise are always telling people to "do their own research"
luxordelphi
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
The ER-2 goes to 70,00 feet? Gosh - I'd never have realised......if it weren't for the fact that it is a version of the U-2 that NASA has been operating since 1981!
Honestly, Gaul, relevance is lost on you. There was no U-2 at 2001 Hurricane Erin on Sept. 10, 2001. It was an ER-2.
I put up the specs for the ER-2 because if dropping soot was the goal, it has to be able to get up above the hurricane, fully loaded, and the ER-2 can certainly manage that. Further, I put up the specs because it gets really high really fast and flies really fast and there seems to be some time lost somewhere but I have not yet put that together as far as yea or nay.
Adding to the general perception that Erin was nothing of particular interest to New Yorkers in Sept 2001:
Gotta love the way hindsight can be propaganda. But cute find...hope it didn't take waaay too long.
you cannot do geoengineering in "small isolated areas around the planet" - geo-engineering, BY DEFINITION, is altering the climate OF HET WHOLE PLANET.
What!!??!!
We live in a closed inter-connected eco-system. What happens in Vegas doesn't really stay there.
Just in case anyone missed it by, say, not bothering to read it, this link shows why Hurricane Erin changed course - a massive high pressure system covering the whole of the Mideast & eastern USA driving eastwards.
That's the same retrospect/hindsight article. But let me tell you what I'm going to do for you: I'm going to make a list of all the reasons (from source links) brought up so far as to why Erin weakened:
1. High pressure system
2. Wind shear
3. Cooler waters
4. African dusts
5. Urban pollutions
6. ER-2
chemise are always telling people to "do their own research"
Chemise? Kind of a cute foreign sort of twist on your chemmies?
Over the past twenty years experiments have been conducted on weather modification, particularly on the effects of seedinq clouds with - such materials as silver iodide crystals. The results are limited.
Four seeding operations were conducted on the October 14 flight. The details of these seedings and the results obtained were discussed at considerable length by Langmuir in an occasional report. (^O) But a summary of his findings is to the effect that rainfall was produced over an area of more than 40,000 square miles as a result of the seeding--about a quarter of the area of the State of New Mexico. And substantially all of the rain for the whole of New Mexico that fell on October 14 and 15 was the result of the seeding operations near Albuquerque on October 14. ''The odds in favor of this conclusion as compared to the assumption that the rain was due to natural causes are many millions to one."
An early estimate by Langmuir was that about 100,000,000 tons of rainfall was produced. Later, using the rain reports from 330 stations given in a U. S. Weather Bureau publication, he concluded that the original estimate was unduly conservative.'^*-*^ Said he: ''The evidence indicated that the rain started from near the point of seeding shortly after the time of seeding and then spread gradually at a rate which at no place exceeded 22 miles per hour, over an area of at least 12,000 square miles north to northeast of Albuquerque with an average of about 0.3.5 inches. This corresponded to about 300,000,000 tons."
That video is the best compilation of evidence that I have ever seen.
As in any of the physical phenomena, there are definite limitations to the degree in which experimental meteorology may be employed in modifying clouds in the free atmosphere. Some of these apparent limitations may disappear as our knowledge increases, although most of the restrictions now recognized are imposed by known physical laws.
tsurfer2000h
reply to post by network dude
How does my understanding of contrails and science mean that I am gung-ho for the government?
Isn't a paid shill supposed to be that way?
No-one has ever denied that cloud seeding has been done now for over fifty years. It is not geo-engineering, and it is certainly not being done by commercial jet aircraft. So long as you are quoting an old study, you might want to read all of it:
sunnynights
You agree we cloud seed
You agree that is weather modification
Wouldn’t you agree that weather modification maybe harmful to life of earth including vegetation and animal forms?
So now we can stop with this silly Contrail/Chemtrail dog and pony show and get into the when, the where, the how, the who and why in regards to weather modification.