Science and technology are amazing tools in our toolbox, but are they being used responsibly? Just because we can does not mean we should.
Cloud Seeding
In the beginning, cloud-seeding was meant to bring rain to dry areas, diminish the strength of hurricanes, and reduce hailstone size for our benefit. But there is more.
Cloud seeding is usually dispersed by smaller aircraft flying at a lower altitude than commercial aircraft. When potential clouds containing a level of moisture are identified in a flight area, usually by NOAA, planes are directed to start “seeding.” The procedure utilizes silver iodide “exploded” into the cloud to form ice crystals, increase cloud size and release moisture in the form of rain or snow.
Cloud seeding services are contracted by individual states or a group of states in a cost-sharing arrangement, as was recently agreed to by a group of western states.
In 2024, a New Mexico House Bill, HB130, was introduced for a 3-year pilot program to investigate the effectiveness of cloud seeding for $1.98 million. The bill passed the NM House but was stalled in the Senate. Had it passed, the program would have been administered by New Mexico State University through the Department of Agriculture. Gov Michelle Lujan Grisham noted that the efficacy of cloud seeding has not yet been determined. She also stated, “She was glad that the program would be starting in a small part of the state and that the data would be gathered to determine how it impacts plant and animal life.”
There is still inconsistency of the effectiveness of cloud seeding in the production of precipitation. Not every potential cloud is the same, and the atmospheric conditions vary, thus leading to an inability to precisely determine the circumstances of success. More information is being collected to develop conclusions. According to Fritz Energy, “Potential risks include silver toxicity from silver iodide.” “Studies indicate minimal human health consequences related to cloud seeding.” “There may be long-term ecosystem impacts due to altered weather patterns and distribution of water vapor.” However, it is still not known many decades later if there are long-term effects of cloud seeding on the environment.
Lack of Data
This is the problem. Cloud seeding has been conducted over many decades with the sole focus on the increase of precipitation. After the long-term use of silver iodide in the seeding process, the only data is the amount of moisture produced. Because of this singular vision, there does not appear to be any data from monitoring negative effects on people, plants, animals, and overall environmental impact that could lead to other potential damages both short and long term. How many times have we seen and been victims of unintended consequences involving ecological, environmental, and health conditions when all exposures are not examined before “loosing” these processes on our communities? A detailed risk vs measurable benefit analysis should be required before broad dispersal of any product.
Weather Modification in Vietnam
In an interview with Dr Ben Livingston, a physicist who considers himself the “Father of weaponized weather,” explains how heavy rains were caused in Vietnam’s dry season to propel the US efforts during that war.
After the war, he became CO at Corona Naval Weapons Research Center. His job was to write the plan for weather modification for the whole world. Silver iodide was to be used in hurricane clouds, with the goal being to lower the spread and the wind velocity by making the eye bigger. This would save lives and property. In 1972 the Air Force picked up the torch to continue this research and testing. At that time it was thought these storms could be weakened, slowed or even allowed to spin out in the ocean, but this is not happening. We are suffering the opposite effect.
When he was asked why there is no lawsuit against the government for not stopping these storms, he said “…I really don’t understand why because the government has a responsibility to the citizens of the country to protect them. And they won’t acknowledge the fact that they can stop it or slow it down. A proposal was made to the Senate in 2006 to take action on stopping or reducing the speed of these storms and only one Senator responded, “They don’t seem to care.” Russia, Turkey, Greece, Indonesia, Canada all use weather control to their benefit. We aren’t.”
Weather Warfare
The practice of “warfare weather modification” was revealed to the United States Congress, which halted its use. This information was also presented to the international community, culminating in a United Nations Resolution 17119 that included the Soviet Union. The resolution became effective in 1978.
The introduction of the UN Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques and Annex says, “Recognizing, however, that military or any other hostile use of such techniques could have effects extremely harmful to human welfare.
Article I. 1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party.
Article II. As used in article I, the term “environmental modification techniques” refers to any technique for changing through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.
There was no prohibition for use of Environmental Modification in peacetime.
Other Forms of Weather Modification
Other forms of weather modification include high altitude aerosol injections, commonly known as (SRM) Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering, (SAG) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering, (SAI) Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Geoengineering, Climate Engineering, and Chemtrails. These will be discussed in a later article.
Transparency
There should be a public notice when and where cloud seeding is scheduled to be performed, and the actual number of silver iodide applications during each flight.
Secrecy surrounding any atmospheric spraying is unacceptable and should require a notice to the public. The lack of transparency and operational denials opens the door for “conspiracy theories.” There have been too many anecdotal events, through observation and physical effects, during and after “spraying.” It should not be kept secret. If the “spraying” or use of any chemical in the sky is advantageous to mankind and the environment, why hide or deny something beneficial? Maybe it’s not. Anything that has the potential to negatively affect humans, plants, and animals – long or short term – should be studied and outcomes known before exposing the public. Our people and lands should never be contaminated only to be told years from now about the negative effects that cannot be reversed.
