Wacky weather forecasters. I miss Sonny Eliot (Marvin Schlossberg) American meteorologist, actor and comedian, who was known for making jokes during his weather broadcasts (metro Detroit)
Wow, I never knew that
Sounds kinda like a sideshow barker; they were entertaining back in the day. Meanwhile, the magic act was being played out backstage.
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/1965/nsb1265.pdf page 108 (PDF pg 116) is interesting.
The following is from my non-commercial website. The few links in the following paragraphs are active there.
https://www.bucksafa11.org/2014/02/14/making-weather-pay/
Weather has been a trade-able commodity since 1997 when the first OTC weather trade was made. Two years later the Chicago Mercantile Exchange got in the game and investopedia.com includes weather trading in its search engines.
According to the investopedia website: Energy companies can enter into weather derivatives to eliminate risks of varying temperatures leading to uncertain demand and supply for their power, utility, and energy business.
The weather derivative market has grown globally, with big investment coming from a variety of participants. Weather instruments are a useful medium to mitigate risks for weather specific conditions. Depending upon the needs, specific weather derivatives or a balanced combination of weather and traditional commodity derivatives can be utilized for hedging.
Weather modification may not yet be perfected to the point agricultural firms can blame their failed GMO crops on ‘climate change’ but you can bet all the connected players will still be raking in the dough when it comes about. This weather play is one of their most savory angles. There’s little doubt they’ll work it hard, but quietly, right up to the end.
Maybe the next time you get a reach around email from your congressional representatives expressing heartfelt concern, you might want to write back and ask her what are the chances that what you’re experiencing isn’t the result of weather modification meeting up with market manipulation.
An interested third party review on geoengineering ...
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/geoengineering-reining-weather-warriors