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2025-02-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Politics of Climate Tech: Billions spent on geo-engineering despite objections
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[JustTheNews] While geo-engineering like cloud seeding isn’t a secret, there’s not yet a consensus as to whether it will do more harm than good.
As wildfires raged in California last month, The Drudge Report mocked Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's suggestion to "make it rain" with cloud seeding.
Days later, the news aggregation website contradicted itself with the headline, "AI Drones to 'Make It Rain' in Weather-Control Breakthrough.”
The dichotomy highlighted a little-known war over climate technology, in which billions are being invested not only in cloud seeding (Utah, for example, spends about $700,000 annually spraying silver iodide to make it snow and enhance its water supply), but also more controversial practices.
At the top of the list are “geo-engineering” techniques like Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) – each designed to reduce global temperatures by reflecting a portion of the sun’s energy back into space.
While geo-engineering isn’t a secret, there’s not yet a consensus as to whether it will do more harm than good. And the processes are expected to undergo more scrutiny as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly delving into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which has funded research into geoengineering, even though it says it is not yet conducting experiments in the atmosphere.
In fact, climate scientists can’t even agree about whether geo-engineering is already in use or not by any entity, let alone the NOAA. And if it is going on, is it visible? Chemtrail activists, often dismissed as conspiracy theorists, certainly believe so.
THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
According to recent polls, approximately 85% of Democrats see climate change as a major problem, thus they are generally supportive of aggressive action. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a porgressive Democrat, said at the recent World Economic Forum, "We must explore all avenues to combat climate change, even those that seem science fiction."
Conversely, only about 30% of Republicans view climate change with the same urgency.
At a recent conservative think-tank event, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said, "Playing God with our weather systems could lead to unintended consequences, affecting not just our environment but our sovereignty.”
Tennessee recently banned geoengineering, cloud seeding and other technologies aimed at controlling the climate, and at least 10 other states are considering similar action.
Seemingly siding with conservatives are many environmentalists and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crowd who fear the potential for misuse.
In addition to that are the so-called "chemtrail" activists who have warned for years that something nefarious is afoot, pointing to suspicious patterns in the sky that most scientists say are long-lasting condensation trails created by aircraft.
Environmentalist and health activist Nicole Shanahan posted to X on Jan. 24 that “Chemtrails are tagged as a conspiracy theory, but geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc. are the terms used in practice. Using the colloquial word ‘chemtrails' triggers gaslighting.”
Shanahan, who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. running mate before he ended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump for president (he was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services this month), linked to her post a 2018 study dubbed, “California Wildfires: Role of Undisclosed Atmospheric Manipulation and Geoengineering.”
The study hails from a couple of scientists not easily dismissed as promoters of mere conspiracies: Dr. Mark Whiteside, the recently retired medical director for the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, and J. Marvin Herndon, a doctor of nuclear chemistry, once dubbed a “maverick geophysicist” by The Washington Post.
Their study suggests that aerosolized coal fly ash, used in geoengineering, could increase combustibility by drying out vegetation and altering weather patterns, leading to more intense fires and droughts.
Unlike many in the scientific community, the study does not present geo-engineering as theoretical, but as ongoing. Activities include jets spraying particulates into the atmosphere to suppress solar radiation.
Whiteside has delved into what he describes as a covert operation affecting global climate: tropospheric aerosol geoengineering (TAG). He and Herndon have spent years documenting the environmental and health implications of these activities.
Geo-engineering, Whiteside told this reporter, involves large-scale environmental manipulation intended to mitigate global warming. Contrary to mainstream narratives presenting geoengineering as a future strategy, Whiteside asserts that such practices have been in operation for 75 years, evidenced by historical efforts like Project Cirrus and military operations during the Vietnam War.
He argues there's a deliberate cover-up, pointing to patents, military documents and the 1978 UN ENMOD treaty, which he describes as a "Trojan Horse” that enables environmental modifications.
The funding for these operations, he speculates, might come from misallocated public funds, including billions unaccounted for in the Pentagon's budget, which is being audited by DOGE.
Whiteside says that geo-engineering is sold as “sunscreen for the Earth,” and that the public is “bombarded with lies, misinformation, and distraction to the point they believe they are not seeing what they are seeing, and conditioned to cry ‘conspiracy theory’ when shown an obvious particulate trail.”
In a lengthy study at the European Journal of Applied Sciences published last year, he and Herndon noted that President Lyndon Johnson spoke about controlling the weather in 1962.
They say in the study that the ozone layer has been damaged and ultraviolet radiation now penetrates the Earth’s surface, adding: “This situation has been made unimaginably worse by the deliberate, covert planetary modification, euphemistically called geongineering.”
The mainstream media and the masses “look the other way and ignore the obvious atrocities,” Whiteside says.
CONTRAILS VS. CHEMTRAILS
The science behind “contrails” isn’t in dispute, described as line-shaped clouds of condensed water vapor made from aircraft engines. Chemtrails, though, are typically dismissed as the stuff of conspiracy theorists who say that aircraft are purposely dispersing chemicals.
While Whiteside and Herndon say the concept of chemtrails are real, and central to the discussion of geo-engineering, they appear at odds with most of their colleagues, and with official pronouncements from NASA and the NOAA, both of which say chemtrails are scientifically illegitimate. 
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