WEATHER TAMPERING FROM ABOVE

Critics explode while more than 30 U.S. states move to ban planes from pumping weather-changing substances into skies

James Pascual
Farmers Forum

We’re tampering with the weather but five years ago nobody would have believed it.

Believe it. The state of Florida is about to make it illegal to try to change the weather by injecting anything into the air.

The Florida Senate passed a bill in April that “prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of Florida for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.”

The Florida law will make geo-engineering the climate illegal with a penalty of up to five years imprisonment and fines of up to $100,000. Pilots and air controllers can be fined up to $5,000.

But it’s more than just Floridians who are worried. There are 31 U.S. states that have introduced or have shown the intention to ban geo-engineering, that includes clouding seeding to block the sun to reduce global warming. Much of the concern is driven by what Americans see overhead — long white lines of clouds that streak across the sky and that no one remembers seeing as a child.

Tennessee is the only state to have already successfully enacted a ban, signed into law last year.

The Canadian government supports geo-engineering primarily through research and policy exploration. Small-scale projects exist and a research centre has been set up at Kingston’s Queen’s University. Former British Columbia Premier Bill Vander Zalm was so concerned about geo-engineering occurring in Western Canada that he filed a Freedom of Information request 11 years ago and confirmed it was already happening then. A 2012 Environment Canada report called Geo-engineering: Science and Governance, spilled the beans even though the 40-page report included half of the pages blanked-out and other pages with entire paragraphs blacked-out or redacted, meaning the government doesn’t want us to know what it is up to.

The U.S. Health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is also worried and in a podcast said, “It’s kind of frightening to think that somebody may be putting large amounts of bioavailable aluminum into the environment, spraying it in microscopic particulates from airplanes.”

That comment evoked immediate online chatter. Without arguing the merits of the arguments, the detractors labelled all concerns as a “conspiracy theory” that has “been debunked” and “there’s no evidence.”

Controlled big media broadcast that the long white streaks called chemical trails or chemtrails are condensation trails. It’s just water.
But there is a growing body of research in the United States that points to aluminum nanoparticles and other material in the air to reflect sun away from the earth in hopes of cooling the earth’s surface.

Geo-engineeringWatch.com, run by California researcher Dane Wigington, has had more than 50-million visits, and produced the documentary called The Dimming in 2021, which focused on a study that captured an abnormally high amount of aluminum nanoparticles in the cloud paths left behind by airplanes.

“No creature has ever been found to utilize aluminum,” argued Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, founder of the Sophia Health Institute, who was interviewed for the documentary. “Nothing thrives on aluminum. It is deadly to all life on earth.”

Unfortunately, there appears to be little interest in these findings or in the effects of the aluminum particles on humans.

Now the British are openly boasting about their geo-engineering plans. Ironically, the British don’t get a lot of sun and now their government is going to conduct experiments that would, on a larger scale, limit sunshine. One experiment will involve sending a weather balloon more than 14 kilometres into the sky carrying non-toxic mineral dust, such as limestone or dolomite. The dust will be contained within the balloon to study its behavior under stratospheric conditions without being released into the atmosphere.

Another experiment will test spraying a fine mist of natural seawater into the atmosphere from a coastal location to enhance cloud reflectivity, again reflecting more sunlight back into space.

These are small-scale studies but critics fear this is just the beginning. A major argument against geo-engineering is that, on a large scale, tampering with sunlight would have unintended consequences such as affecting crop yields and a human’s need of vitamin D, as well as cause other unknown environmental risks.

Many people are not happy. Dr. John Campbell, a U.K. health podcaster with more than 3-million subscribers, and former professor of nursing, posted a critique on April 26 that in one day had 170,000 views and an astounding 7,000 comments, almost unanimously against the British sun dimming experiment.

Campbell calls it “daylight robbery” when a small group decides to reduce the sunlight that people want and argues that the intended outcomes don’t even make sense. First you have to go along with the idea that man-made global warming is a crisis. Then you have to agree with reducing the sun’s rays that reduce photosynthesis, that then reduces the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere, leaving more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, even though global warming alarmists have been arguing that we need to reduce carbon dioxide to reduce global warming. That left Campbell literally scratching his head for an explanation.

In a follow-up video, Campbell said that he opposes the experiment and was wryly forthcoming about his personal conflict-of-interest in the matter.

“Personally I like to breath oxygen,” he said. “I find it helps my physiology and I like to eat food when I am hungry. And both food and oxygen comes from photosynthesis, which comes from the sunlight.”

He also noted that the sun-dimming experiments will be conducted on people whether they like them or not. “I was not asked for my consent for my environment to be experimented on.”

Dr. Campbell also fears the consequence. “I am worried about national and local food supply.”

Other criticisms range from unknown effects on human health, the potential to control or disrupt food supply or even weaponize the weather. Far fetched? Weaponization has been discussed for years. In 1962 Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was filmed telling graduating students at a Texas University that “He who controls the weather controls the world.”

While some aspects of geo-engineering can be helpful (see sidebar story), the upside of geo-engineering is not so clear when you consider the possible downsides. This is a strong reason to slow down and review the consequences.