Oh really?
All them ship captains outta be arrested for wildly driving their ships in erratic patterns!
Posted on 04/13/2024 3:50:16 PM PDT by Twotone
The USS Hornet may be a decommissioned aircraft carrier, yet it has nevertheless become the launch-site for a controversial new war in the skies.
The Marine Cloud Brightening Program's Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement project, led by researchers from the University of Washington, took to the deck of the Hornet Tuesday to launch streams of particles into the sky above the San Francisco Bay. Their ultimate objective is apparently to block and reflect sunlight in hopes of limiting "global warming."
CAARE researchers behind the geoengineering scheme opted not to announce their experiment, reportedly citing concerns that there might be significant backlash.
After all, the American public — or at the very least, the residents of Alameda — might first want to hear from the hundreds of scientists who have called for a non-use agreement for solar radiation management and stated in an open letter that the "risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known. Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture, and the provision of basic needs of food and water."
The experiment: Clouds bounce some of the sun's rays back into space. This supposedly helps cool temperatures locally.
The University of Washington's Department of Atmospheric Sciences conceded that fossil fuel emissions and other human activities have long generated aerosols in the atmosphere that mix in with low-altitude clouds, causing them to brighten and reflect more sunlight, having a cooling effect on the earth's climate.
"I think most people are aware that there's a greenhouse gas effect that warms climate," UW MCB program director Sarah Doherty told the Weather Channel. "But what most people aren't aware of is that the particles that we've also been producing and adding to the atmosphere offset some of that climate warming. So, the overall effect is one of climate warming, but it would be a lot more without that particulate pollution."
With climate alarmists concerned over supposed global temperature increases and the corresponding war on fossil fuels sure to rob the clouds of a contributing brightener, some scientists are keen to pump out aerosols of their own.
Robert Wood, the lead UW scientist running the cloud project, noted on his university blog that the team at the CAARE facility developed a "Cloud-Aerosol Research Instrument (CARI)." This device, which has multiple nozzles and resembles a snow maker, can apparently fire trillions of salt particles into the air.
The UW indicated that once emitted, such particles would only remain airborne in the atmosphere for a few days.
Wood told the San Francisco Chronicle simulations project that if 15% of Earth's marine clouds were artificially brightened, the globe might cool by approximately one degree.
According to the New York Times, CAARE researchers used their CARI device last week aboard the USS Hornet, firing particles and testing to make sure their cloud-brightening machine would function as desired outside a lab.
The Chronicle indicated that the next step of research will entail actually attempting to meddle with the clouds off the coast of California.
The concerns: "Every year that we have new records of climate change, and record temperatures, heat waves, it's driving the field to look at more alternatives," Wood told the Times. "Even ones that may have once been relatively extreme."
Contrary to Woods' intimation, many still regard marine cloud brightening to be an extreme and potentially fruitless initiative.
In addition to noting that MCB and other forms of solar radiation modification may ultimately accomplish little in the way of lowering global temperatures, the Congressional Research Service noted in a May 2023 report that some "modeling studies of [marine cloud brightening] have suggested it could alter precipitation patterns at global and regional levels."
A 2017 study published in Nature Communications indicated that aerosols released just in the northern hemisphere could possibly even lead to an increase in droughts, hurricanes, and storms elsewhere.
Late last month, a group of 31 top atmospheric scientists noted in a paper published in Science Advances that there is presently a "lack of a clear understanding of the relationship between aerosol and meteorological conditions and liquid water and cloud fraction adjustments and their timescales."
"Regional changes in temperature and rainfall could influence heat stress, water availability, crop productivity and the ability of communities to thrive," added the scientists who emphasized the need to evaluate the viability and risks of MCB.
The widespread concerns over the feasibility and fallout of such experiments has prompted the Biden administration to distance itself from the CAARE experiment, even though President Joe Biden signed Congress' Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, providing funding for a "scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions in the context of near-term climate risks and hazards," including aerosol injection.
The White House told the Times in a statement, "The U.S. government is not involved in the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) experiment taking place in Alameda, CA, or anywhere else."
So I hope they have a REALLY big supply of SOMETHING and a LOT of rockets get it up there.
But the Siberians and the Canadians are gonna be REALLY pissed come next winter!
i remember the last time “scientists” meddled with clouds: it was right before the Big Thompson Flood in Colorado ...
“Scientists” were “cloud-seeding” by releasing trillions of nanoscopic iodine particles from airplanes .... they got rain all right, LOTS of it: they made the Big Thompson Flood ...
funny thing though, “cloud-seeding” instantly stopped after that massive flood, and the media went completely silent about “cloud-seeding” as if it had never happened ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Big_Thompson_River_flood
Heck, my farts linger longer than that!
What's the price tag going to be for this EXPERIMENT?
Do they ever think of ways NOT spend money foolishly?
SpelChunk used the word 'many' where it is OBVIOUS that the phrase "anyone with an active braincell" was intended.
Train fish to swim upside down so that their bright bellies will reflect the solar heat back up.
Up thru the water that it just passed thru.
Oops!
Utility grid failing nationwide as less light is being received from solar farms.
Public EV charging stations overload - cause west coast grid to fail.
Hoover dam generators shut down due to over heating.
All you had to do was move 10 miles from your present location: Straight UP!
We just spent time and money for fifty years to rid ourselves from dirty air.
And now, typically in Leftist fashion, they want to send up dirt to cover the sun.
IS THERE ANY SANITY IN MARXIST/FASCHIS/COMMUNIST MINDS?
Oh really?
All them ship captains outta be arrested for wildly driving their ships in erratic patterns!
i remember the last time “scientists” meddled with clouds: it was right before the Big Thompson Flood in Colorado ...
“Scientists” were “cloud-seeding” by releasing trillions of nanoscopic iodine particles from airplanes .... they got rain all right, LOTS of it: they made the Big Thompson Flood ...
Meteorological synopsis[edit]On July 31, a thunderstorm complex developed alongside the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains, near Estes Park, Colorado.[5][6][7] The development was caused by a number of meteorological factors, including a shortwave trough, a polar front that moved across southeastern Colorado with the main polar airmass northeast of the Front Range, and moisture and unstable air behind a cold front extending across the Big Thompson Valley.[6] Upper-atmospheric light winds caused the thunderstorm complex to stay stationary, which produced heavy rainfall across portions of the Big Thompson Canyon, including up to 7.5 inches (190 mm) of rain falling in one hour.[5][8] Over four hours near Estes Park, 12–14 inches (300–360 mm) of rain fell, causing the Big Thompson River to overflow its banks and triggering a flood crest that moved through the river and the Big Thompson Canyon.[9][10][11] The flood crest moved at an average speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), and crested at 30 feet (9.1 m).[10][12] A flash flood warning was issued at 23:00 Central Time (5:00 UTC), but was criticized because the warning was issued only several hours following the flood.[13] |
Strange - it didn't get mentioned in the link.
No. It is called seeding clouds, and has nothing to do with contrails.
There was another article the described the use of salt and a reflector of solar energy. Such salt would go into the fresh water used for human needs and adversely affect it.
“Strange - it didn’t get mentioned in the link.”
not strange at all ... i lived one water-shed away from the Big T then (still do) and the media went radio-silent about the big cloud-seeding experiment after the flood, whereas before they couldn’t shut up about how it was the greatest thing since sliced bread ... most telling of course, the cloud-seeding ended abruptly (and quietly) after the flood ...
there was no internet then, just the 3 TV networks, WaPo, NYC, and LAtimes for all practical purposes and walter cronkite was biggest kommie lying PoS conceivable, though of course we the sheeple had no clue about that until many decades later ...
the media was extremely tightly controlled prior to the internet, and many of the older current politicians, including biden and obama have frequently publicly lamented about how everything was so much “simpler” then ... no such thing as “misinformation” then either because the only information allowed was the “official” version ...
This was a Simpson episode! The evil capitalist Mr. Burns was blocking the sun and a baby shot him. Instead, the evil communists will be blocking the sun collectively because—global worming.
a what will happen when it falls to the crop soil?
So this is our “new woke military”. The world is not impressed,except the woke European countries that are in a death spiral.
Most plants aren't real keen on having increased sodium is their soil either. They plan to salt the earth.
“Most plants aren’t real keen on having increased sodium is their soil either. They plan to salt the earth.”
The crap they’ve already been chem-spraying is settling on the plants and confusing the bees, preventing pollination. I suspect it is also causing deaths in animals. Odd, unexplained eagle/eaglet deaths have occurred with no apparent autopsy results. They probably know exactly what caused the deaths, but dare not reveal it. They are, instead, blaming Avian flu, or a water plant, a toxin produced by the water plant, anything BUT what they’re spraying into the air we breathe.
But I have friends that, like myself, have experienced lung problems after being outside on days when they have been heavily spraying. And according to Dale Wigington at geoengineeringwatch.org, the crap they’re unleashing is undoubtedly causing the respiratory issues. They’re playing god by killing off God’s creations. It’s how they, the globalist evil left, roll.
They want you to believe that it’s all just wacko conspiracy theory stuff... but all you have to do is look up and see the sky tic-tac-toed with fake clouds they’ve produced, that do not dissipate or evaporate quickly, like real contrails... and you can see for yourself what they’re doing.
And the real question remains... what, if anything, is government NOT lying to us about?
Which would then essentially have the effect of salting the fields where food crop production would be compromised .
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