Climate

Geoengineering &
Weather Modification

"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. Under suitable circumstances it has been possible to augment precipitation by ten to twenty percent, and to reduce the frequency of fire-producing lightning strokes. Effects on hail production have been noted, sometimes suppression and sometimes augmentation. These results probably would be of only passing interest were it not for the potential importance to mankind of further progress in this field. Perhaps the most significant result of the experiments to date has been to bring about a change in attitude from one of skepticism to one of cautious optimism. The limited success to date is encouraging, and underscores the importance of pressing forward with the necessary research to understand the dynamics of weather systems that will have to be dealt with in any efforts at weather modification.

The gradually accumulating evidence of positive results from efforts at weather modification led the Committee on Atmospheric Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, in November 1963, to appoint a Panel on Weather and Climate Modification "to undertake a deliberate and thoughtful review of the present status and activities in this field, and of its potential and limitations for the future." The Panel made its report at the beginning of this calendar year (Ref. 1). The composition of the NAS Panel is given in App. I, together with a list of the Panel's recommendations. Elaboration and discussion of these recommendations may be found in Ref. 1.

On June 16, 1964, the Director of the National Science Foundation announced the appointment of a Special Commission on Weather Modification. in its review of the field, the Commission activated seven subgroups to study the physical, biological, statistical, social, international, legal and legislative, and administration and funding aspects of weather and climate modification."

Weather as a Force Multiplier:
Owning the Weather in 2025
A Research Paper Presented To Air Force 2025
by Col Tamzy J. House et al
Published August 1996

"In 2025, US aerospace forces can "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.

A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary. Some of the potential capabilities a weather-modification system could provide to a war-fighting commander in chief (CINC) are listed in table 1.

Technology advancements in five major areas are necessary for an integrated weather-modification capability:

advanced nonlinear modeling techniques;
computational capability;
information gathering and transmission;
a global sensor array; and
weather intervention techniques.

Some intervention tools exist today and others may be developed and refined in the future.

Current technologies that will mature over the next 30 years will offer anyone who has the necessary resources the ability to modify weather patterns and their corresponding effects, at least on the local scale. Current demographic, economic, and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn this weather-modification ability into a capability.

In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels. These levels could include unilateral actions, participation in a security framework such as NATO, membership in an international organization such as the UN, or participation in a coalition. Assuming that in 2025 our national security strategy includes weather-modification, its use in our national military strategy will naturally follow. Besides the significant benefits an operational capability would provide, another motivation to pursue weather-modification is to deter and counter potential adversaries.

In this paper we show that appropriate application of weather-modification can provide battlespace dominance to a degree never before imagined. In the future, such operations will enhance air and space superiority and provide new options for battlespace shaping and battlespace awareness. "The technology is there, waiting for us to pull it all together;" in 2025 we can "Own the Weather"."

Unilateral Geoengineering
Non-technical Briefing Notes for a Workshop
At the Council on Foreign Relations
by Katharine Ricke et al
Published May 5, 2008

"David Keith has suggested that it should be possible to create microscopic reflecting composite particles that would be self-orienting and self-levitating under the combined influences of solar radiation, differential forces from molecular collisions, and the earth's electric and magnetic fields. Keith notes that "photophoretic levitation could loft particles above the stratosphere reducing their capacity to interfere with ozone chemistry ... [Such] levitated particles can have long lifetimes, reducing the need for continual replenishment of the aerosol ... [and] could be engineered to migrate poleward enabling albedo modification to be tailored to reduce polar warming so as to reduce the risk of rapid deglaciation and consequent sea level rise"."

GEOENGINEERING: PARTS I, II, and III
COMMITTEE on SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
by multiple people
Published March 18, 2010

Excerpts from the prepared statement of Mr. Lee Lane, Co-Director, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Geoengineering Project and former Executive Director of the Climate Policy Center:

Solar Radiation Management (SRM) aims to offset the warming caused by the build-up of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by reducing the amount of solar energy absorbed by the Earth.
Marine Cloud Whitening - Wind-driven spray vessels will sail back and forth perpendicular to the local prevailing wind and release micronsized drops of seawater into the turbulent boundary layer beneath marine stratocumulus clouds. The combination of wind and vessel movements will treat a large area of sky.
Stratospheric Aerosols - Sulfur dioxide (SO₂), as a precursor of sulfate aerosols, is a widely discussed candidate for the material to be injected. Other candidates include hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) and soot. A fairly broad range of materials might be used as stratospheric scatterers. It might also be possible to develop engineered particles. Such particles might improve on the reflective properties and residence times now envisioned.
Air Capture (AC) of carbon dioxide (CO₂) is the second family of climate engineering concepts. AC focuses on removing CO₂ from the atmosphere and securing it in land- or sea-based sinks. Like Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), air capture involves long-term storage of CO₂, but air capture removes the CO₂ directly from the atmosphere rather than from the exhaust streams of power plants and other stationary sources.

Article
Geoengineering
Who's Behind It &
How We Stop It
July 14, 2025

"If you care about your health, your children's health, or just the integrity of the natural world, now is the time to act. This isn't about politics. This is about basic human rights. Geoengineering isn't the future. It's the present. And it's time we make it the past." ~ Nicole Shanahan

"A one-page form allows anyone to begin modifying the atmosphere. No long-term environmental impact studies, no chemical safety requirements, no business license, no public comment."

Article
UK scientists are going to
dim the sun and will launch
geoengineering experiments
as part of a
government-funded programme
Apr. 24, 2025

"Professor Mark Symes, who is leading the Aria programme ... said no toxic substances would be released, an environmental impact assessment would be published before outdoor experiments and that local communities would be consulted."

Video
"Geoengineering is the
number one issue
that we are facing"
Dec. 12, 2023

Kristen Meghan discovered the US Air Force's use of aluminum, barium and strontium for geoengineering.

Video
NASA Engineer Tom Moser
Reveals the Truth
About Climate Science
Mar. 21, 2023

Video
Inconvenient Truth:
32 Climate Predictions Proven False
Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov
Mar. 30, 2023

Important Documents from
GeoengineeringWatch.org

GeoengineeringWatch.org has compiled a large list of documentation from governments and non-governmental organizations regarding Geoengineering & Weather Modification

Interactive Website
Weather Control Timeline
covering over 150 years
of man-made attempts to
control our climate and weather

Each event in this timeline contains descriptions, quotes, images, videos, and references divided into three main categories: Geoengineering; Weather Modification; and Space Weather Modification.

www.WeatherModificationHistory.com
Geoengineering,
Climate Engineering
& Climate Intervention

"Geoengineering is the term associated with technology used to address climate change and global warming with solutions ranging from painting roofs white, to genetically modified crops that reflect light, dumping iron in the ocean to make algae grow, pumping salt into clouds to make them shiny, and even mirrors in space and acid clouds to block the sun."

www.GeoengineeringMonitor.org
Geoengineering
technologies & approaches

"Geoengineering technologies and approaches broadly fall into two categories, Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). We are keeping close track of them and have more information about each of them: