In the last 30 years it seems like the weather patterns and climate overall have become more chaotic. Most of this has been assigned by mainstream science to growing Global Climate Disruption (GCD). The evidence is quite compelling. More recently within the last decade the patterns have been more than chaotic, but at times it seems peculiarly organized chaos as new high-altitude wind patterns have reorganized themselves. In the U.S. for instance, we have had some odd winters where the jet stream has been coming down from the Canadian north west cutting a swarth with a dry south West and a wetter and colder northeast and southeast. Colorado seems to have been on the border of this jet stream oscillating between snow coming from the north east and warm dry from the south west. It seems different from the usually pattern where heat used to push up from the Gulf of Mexico during the winter – all part of GCD apparently. Then I started reading now about an old government program into weather modification. Only it seems it isn’t old anymore? Again, this is area of study that has been branded conspiracy. It is more than disconcerting to see scientists and engineers coming up with strange and wonderful ideas to combat GCD. Especially so when the most effective and simple solution is to stop burning fossil fuels and create renewable options as the main policy. The conspiracy part of this story comes in when you start to delve into these geoengineering ideas being put forth. What the mainstream media portray as ideas being discussed are actually ideas that have already been enacted on a global scale for decades already!! At first it was like I was reading science fiction novels until I started finding numerous credible sources saying the same thing. We have top secret projects going on to modify our weather and much more. And the not so unexpected aspect of these projects are not surprisingly linked to the military. In 1961, President Eisenhower gave a dire warning to the American people (and the world) about the military-industrial complex. He called this alliance of the military-industrial complex, “a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces.” He also warned of its influence on the government:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”
Lest you think that these defense contractors are just a few big corporations like Lockheed-Martin, the list reads more like a who’s who of the Fortune 500 international corporations! Weather modification has been around for over a hundred years with cloud seeding to produce rain or snow for increased local water storage. But modern weather manipulation has been a serious concept since the end of the second world war. Think about how weather has been a major factor in success or defeat of whole armies during extended war campaigns. The Russian winters for instance, decimated not only Napoleon’s armies but also stalled and ultimately were a major factor in the stalled advance and defeat of Hitler’s Nazi invasion. Imagine what you could do if you could create those conditions in a more localized area anywhere you chose to. A more formidable weapon would be to produce torrential rain to bog down a modern mechanized army. Weather warfare has been used with some success. For instance, the U.S. used it to increase rainfall by over 30% over the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1967-68 during the Vietnam war (Operation Popeye).
Maybe I’ve watched too many movies where the paranoid military are gung ho about using technology that has not been tested to get the upper hand with any protagonists. But anything that modifies planetary systems left in the hands of military makes me, and apparently the whole world, nervous. International concerns about weather modification with the intentionally act of manipulating or altering the weather in warfare has been banned by the United Nations since 1977 (The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (Geneva: May 18, 1977, Entered into force: October 5, 1978)). This convention specifically prohibits “widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury.” Get lawyers involved in the interpretation of the words used in the prohibition and you end up with a continuum of what is permitted. How wide is widespread? How severe is severe? This comes to mean that “local, non-permanent changes” are allowable. It should also be noted that the signatories to this convention are limited and not the whole of the UN! (The Convention was approved by Resolution 31/72 of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1976, by 96 to 8 votes with 30 abstentions.)
The technologies that have been propose by geoengineer theorists have been quite fanciful – and I might add extremely expensive, and in most cases involve unproved technologies. Having said that, what is of concern is the amount of hidden research that has occurred that is apparently being tested on a planetary scale with little true understanding of long term consequences. I would love to believe that sustainability was a central theme and this technology was being used to create a better world, especially since planetary systems are an ultimate public domain, but my skepticism grows as I plow through the information. TBC………
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