There is an
unfortunate bit of confusion over the ability of mankind to influence the
weather. Many conservatives rightly see
in the ginned-up hysteria of ‘man-made climate change’ a tool in the hands of
the globalist elite to increase their power over the lower classes – to
restrict the latter’s ability to own property, or to eat certain foods, to
travel, etc. Folks like Patrick Wood and Marc Morano have been documenting that
for years.
That said,
those same conservatives take their opposition to phony ‘climate change’ claims
to an unnecessary extreme – they deny that mankind has the power to alter the
weather at all. There is a protective
kind of humility here, which we appreciate, which implies that the weather is
in the hands of God, rather than man’s.
In a world without sin, it would be possible to agree to that and move
along to other matters. But in the
fallen world, it is not. Our Lord does
indeed counsel us to be ‘innocent as doves,’ but also ‘shrewd as serpents’ (St.
Matthew’s Gospel 10:16). It is the
shrewdness we need in analyzing the claims of weather alteration, not an
excessive innocence.
In the world
of sin, mankind has indeed advanced to the point of altering the weather/atmosphere. Mainstream reports on this subject abound.
A company in
Germany, Cloud Seeding
Technologies, offers services to deal with hail, rain, snow, and fog.
Salon via MSN reports,
Yet Arizona State University law professor
Karen Bradshaw knows firsthand that there are forms of weather control that do
work.
"I became
interested in cloud seeding after learning that the tiny, rural community of
Mt. Shasta, Calif., near where I grew up, attempted to pass a local ordinance
to prevent an electrical utility from cloud seeding," Bradshaw recalled by
email. She explained that a group of concerned citizens became concerned about
the health effects of local cloud seeding efforts. Cloud seeding is the
practice of introducing tiny ice nuclei into specific subfreezing clouds to
create rain and even snow. While this can be a boon to the agriculture
industry, residents of Mt. Shasta were worried after they read a scientific
study about silver iodide showing up in fish populations.
"When I
began to dig into that story, I was so surprised to learn about the history and
prevalence of cloud seeding," Bradshaw told Salon. "How was it
possible that even environmental law professors did not understand how
widespread it was? When I began mentioning the topic, people brushed it off as
a conspiracy akin to chem trails; very few people were aware that weather and
climate modification are real and happening. There is a UN Convention, federal statutes, legal cases and state
research reports on the topic."
Weather control
opens up all kinds of implications, and not just the sinister, storm-generating
kind. It raises questions about what is scientifically possible — and what is
ethical. Examples include Project
Stormfury, an attempt by the US government to weaken tropical cyclones by
soaring planes into them and sprinkling them with silver iodide. Despite
multiple attempts, it wasn't effective because hurricanes are just too massive.
Attempts to
modify hail storms and increase rainfall have been more effective. Operation Popeye, a weather modification project in North
Vietnam and Laos during the 1960s American invasion, entailed more than 50
cloud seeding experiments. The goal was to lengthen the monsoon season, causing
excessive rains and landslides that would disrupt truck traffic. The U.S.
Department of Defense deemed the results "outstandingly successful,"
with 82% of the seeded clouds producing rain within a brief period.
The Wyoming
Water Development Office proudly details their cloud
seeding program to enhance precipitation.
The AP
reports on a current
federal program to seed clouds in the Western States to refill the Colorado
River.
Then there
are the more exotic projects, such as guiding lightning using lasers. Via Salon-MSN again:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/01/garlington-yes-weather-modification-is-real/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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