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In November 2006 I participated in a conference sponsored by the NASA-Ames and the Carnegie Institution on “Managing Solar Radiation,” one of the many euphemisms for geoengineering. I was the sole historian. This paper brings the checkered history of weather modification to bear on these very recent initiatives and asks, are we at the start of a third cycle—this time involving both weather and climate modification?
For example, in 1951 New York City was facing 169 claims totaling over $2 million from Catskill communities and citizens for flooding and other damages attributed to the activities of a private rainmaker, Wallace Howell. The city had hired Howell to fill its reservoirs with rain, and, at least initially, claimed that Howell had succeeded. When faced with the lawsuits, however, city officials reversed their position and commissioned a survey to show that the seeding was ineffective. Although the plaintiffs were not awarded damages, they did win a permanent injunction against New York City, which ceased further cloud seeding activities; further litigation stopped just short of the Supreme Court.
luxordelphi
If WWIII has already begun, globally, using weaponized weather modification, how would we know? Our prophets tell us that we wouldn't. Our military tells us that we wouldn't.
So that is the point of this thread: how would we know? How could we know? What steps would help us to know? How could we, caught between the cross hairs, as it were, know??!!
How would we, on the wrong end of a weather experiment, be able to tell whether or not it is natural?
Xtrozero
luxordelphi
If WWIII has already begun, globally, using weaponized weather modification, how would we know? Our prophets tell us that we wouldn't. Our military tells us that we wouldn't.
So that is the point of this thread: how would we know? How could we know? What steps would help us to know? How could we, caught between the cross hairs, as it were, know??!!
It is easy to tell since weaponized weather modification is not been invented yet....
Weather modification took a macro-pathological turn between 1967 and 1972 in the jungles over North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Under operation POPEYE, The Air Weather Service conducted secret cloud seeding operations to reduce traffic along portions of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Flying out of Udorn Air Base, Thailand without the knowledge of the Thai government or almost anyone else, but with the full and enthusiastic support of President Johnson, the AWS flew over 2,600 cloud seeding sorties and expended 47,000 silver iodide flares over a period of five years at an annual cost of approximately $3.6 million. In March 1971, nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson broke the story about Air Force rainmakers in Southeast Asia in the Washington post; several months later the Pentagon papers confirmed his information.
Operation POPEYE, made public at the end of the Nixon era, was called the Watergate of weather warfare. Some argued that environmental weapons were more "humane" than nuclear weapons, and that inducing rainfall was preferable to dropping napalm; as one wag put it, "make mud, not war." Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, represented the mainstream of scientific opinion, however, when he observed: "It is grotesquely immoral that scientific understanding and technological capabilities developed for human welfare to protect the public health, enhance agricultural productivity, and minimize natural violence of large storms should be so distorted as to become weapons of war."
One observer noted that the lesson of the Vietnam experience was not that rainmaking is an inefficient means for slowing logistical movement in jungle trails, but "that one can conduct covert operations using a new technology in a democracy without the knowledge of the people."
DenyObfuscation
reply to post by luxordelphi
How would we, on the wrong end of a weather experiment, be able to tell whether or not it is natural?
Don't we have plenty of people that can "Just look up"?
And if at some stage there were some sort of weaponised weather you might think that it would likely be used in some form of conflict - and since the crap weather seems to be hitting all over the world in places that are not having any conflict as it always has for 5000 yeas of recorded history you might think that crap weather is nothing more than crap weather.
network dude
reply to post by luxordelphi
Except the only weather modification that has any merit is cloud seeding and you have to have a permit before you seed in the US. So there is a paper trail even on that. Of course you have all those fantasies that "sound real good" that you like to cling to, but here.....in the real world.......we tend to like facts.
luxordelphi
DenyObfuscation
reply to post by luxordelphi
How would we, on the wrong end of a weather experiment, be able to tell whether or not it is natural?
Don't we have plenty of people that can "Just look up"?
Very astute, Hall Monitor, because contrails persisting without proper conditions for persistence would certainly be a way to tell.
DenyObfuscation
luxordelphi
DenyObfuscation
reply to post by luxordelphi
How would we, on the wrong end of a weather experiment, be able to tell whether or not it is natural?
Don't we have plenty of people that can "Just look up"?
Very astute, Hall Monitor, because contrails persisting without proper conditions for persistence would certainly be a way to tell.
How can you assess the conditions to possibly come to that conclusion?
ETA: I hope this doesn't involve the Astro-Chaise.edit on 3-1-2014 by DenyObfuscation because: (no reason given)
According to meteorology professor Hans Verlinde of Penn State, one of the authors of the NRC report, the basic problems in cloud microphysics "haven't really changed much over the years." Scientists do not have the ability to characterize the background concentration, sizes, and chemical composition of aerosols, the very smallest particles that participate in cloud processes. This is particularly true for ice nuclei. Additionally, the mass accomodation coefficient, a factor that determines the activated drop spectrum at cloud base and the maximum supersaturation attained within the cloud, is not known within an order of magnitude. Taken together, this means that atmospheric scientists cannot with confidence predict the droplet distribution and its variation within any particular cloud. Moreover, factors such as chemical surfactants and radiation influence the evolution of the droplets over time.
luxordelphi
AndyMayhew
reply to post by luxordelphi
Yes.
There are an awful lot of people who have spent their lives watching and studying the weather. We would know.
Who's we? The military would know. How would we, Joe & Jane Public, know? The military has stated that this is the beauty of this weapon - no one would know. Do you think they don't know what they're talking about?
luxordelphi
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Good point, however, in light of the global spying by NSA and partnering countries, I'd have to say that there appears to be a global conflict in which we, the world, appear to be the enemy. With an enemy spread out over the entire globe, it shouldn't be surprising to find weaponized weather events in diverse places.
luxordelphi
reply to post by DenyObfuscation
Ok...I'll make a list, off the top, of what I think might cause the start-stop contrail/chemtrail behavior and I'll list all the ones I can think of without prejudice to sides in that debate but first, to stay topical, I'll quote the OP link on this subject.
1. Different temperatures
2. Different humidities
3. Different particle concentrations
(The first 3 are a stretch.) (They involve some of those perfect storm conditions that you all are so fond of.)
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD), formally the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques is an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects. It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978.
The Convention bans weather warfare, which is the use of weather modification techniques for the purposes of inducing damage or destruction. The Convention on Biological Diversity of 2010 would also ban some forms of weather modification or geoengineering.[2]
It is foolish, imo, to think that the government won't experiment and lie when it comes to weather modification when they have consistently done so in the past.
Reading this along with HARP,and personalised internat, whenever one encounters abnornal weather one can never be certain wheather or not the weather is natural or man made. Just another source of confusion, worrry and uncrtainity which I suppose is just what the powers that be have planned for us to enable them to place in a space where we are easy to control and imprisoned