Mexico Bans “Make Sunsets” Rogue Geoengineering
April 2022 - Present
Make Sunsets, Inc. was founded in October 2022 by Luke Iseman and Andrew Song and is based in Box Elder, South Dakota. The company aims to “create ref [...]
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Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
January 17, 2022
On 17 January 2022, more than 60 senior climate scientists and governance scholars from around the world launched a global initiative calling for an I [...]
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Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) StratoCruiser
Spring 2019
Originally proposed by Bill Gates’ company Intellectual Ventures, the StratoShield has been renamed the StratoCruiser and a team funded by Bill Gates’ [...]
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“Hands Off Mother Earth” Manifesto: A Permanent Ban on Geoengineering
October 2018
110 civil society organizations and popular movements denounce geoengineering and demand an immediate stop to all open-air experiments. If your organi [...]
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Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
January 10, 2018
Recorded Wednesday, 10 January 2018: 8:45 AM Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas) Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. [1] Geoengineering, a [...]
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NASA/DLR-Multidisciplinary Airborne eXperiments, Emission and CLimate Impact of alternative Fuel (ND-MAX/ECLIF 2)
January 2018
“In January 2018, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administratio [...]
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Congressional Hearing on Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology
November 8, 2017
The purpose of this hearing is to assess the status of geoengineering research in the United States, while also exploring potential technologies and i [...]
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Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program
March 24, 2017
Produce research that advances solar geoengineering’s science and technology frontier, publishing high-impact papers, and disseminating ideas that are [...]
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Commercial Aviation Creating Ice Haze and “Accidental Geoengineering”
December 2015
If the recent clear sky “brightening” trend were due to cleaner air and fewer aerosols alone, it should be accompanied by an increase in direct downwe [...]
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Geoengineering Necessary to Meet COP21 Goals
November - December 2015
“Within the Paris agreement there’s an implicit assumption that there will need to be greenhouse gases removed,” said Phil Williamson, a scientist at [...]
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HAARP Ionospheric Heater Sold to University of Alaska, Back Online
September 3, 2015
Instead of falling to the dozer blade, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program has new life. In mid-August, U.S. Air Force General Tom Masi [...]
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Activists Challenge EPA at Hearing on Flight Pollution
August 11, 2015
The Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing its Washington, D.C., headquarters to hear from environmental groups, aircraft industry repr [...]
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CIA Concerned Rogue Geoengineering is Undetectable!
January - March 2015
Rogue Geoengineering is Undetectable Using Modern Sensors A fundamental scientific question is whether an engineered increase in reflectivity (albedo) [...]
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Contrail Cirrus Cloud Seeding and Thinning
January 2015
“Jon Egill Kristjansson told us about the fine line a potential cloud seeder would have to walk by seeding small, homogenous ice nuclei in cirrus clou [...]
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Jet Biofuel Enlisted for Contrail Control
February 2013 - July 2014
“Contrails might be a punch line in the culture these days, thanks to the imaginative folks who have rechristened them “chemtrails” and embroidered th [...]
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Russ George: The World's First Rogue Geoengineer
August 12-29, 2012
Geoengineering: Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) Russ George dumps iron in the Pacific Ocean with his Haida Salmon Restoration Project. A very large sub [...]
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AMEG Demands Global Geoengineering, Project LUCY, & The ANGELS Proposal
May - December 2012
The Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG) sent a letter to world leaders [1] demanding immediate geoengineering to prevent runaway global warming due [...]
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Aquiess and SciBlue Steer Atmospheric River Over Texas
April 16 - July 16, 2012
Fresh water has been dubbed “Blue Gold” in many publications as potable water will be to this century what oil was to the last century. Less than thre [...]
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Do Planes Trigger Rains? Fallstreak Holes
August 21, 2011
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane. Or so the saying goes, but new research has confirmed that airplanes do cause clouds to dump their conten [...]
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United Nations Environmental Program Warns Geoengineering Could Hurt Ozone Layer
August 1-5, 2011
Synthesis report: “Deliberate injections of sulphur-containing compounds into the stratosphere, which have been suggested as a climate intervention ap [...]
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Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (E-PEACE)
February 23, 2011
E-PEACE, an experiment which while not identifying as SRM resulted in clear implications for marine cloud brightening (MCB) technology post hoc; E-PEA [...]
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Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)
October 2010
SPICE (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) is an EPSRC, NERC and STFC co-funded 3 1/2 year collaboration between the University [...]
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Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI)
September 28, 2010
The Royal Society has launched a Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI) in partnership with the Academy of Sciences for the Developi [...]
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United Nations Warns Against Large Scale Weather Modification
March 22-24, 2010
It should be realised that the energy involved in weather systems is so large that it is impossible to create artificially rain storms, alter wind pat [...]
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ICAO Presentation on Intentional Geoengineering with Contrail Cirrus
March 4, 2010
Ulrich Schumann addresses the ICAO Colloquium on Aviation and Climate Change regarding mitigation options for aviation pollution and contrail cirrus c [...]
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The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
February 22-26, 2010
In the beginning, I had my doubts. The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies, held last week at the Asilomar conferen [...]
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DHS Hurricane Mitigation: Project HURRMIT and HAMP
January 2010
The back-to-back devastating hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 suggested that hurricanes might be a threat to national security, especially as the cl [...]
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The Intellectual Ventures StratoShield “Hose in the Sky”
November 28, 2009
Bill Gates' "StratoShield" would later be rebranded as David Keith's SCoPeX "StratoCruiser." Called a Stratospheric Shield, or StratoShield for short, [...]
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US/UK Joint Inquiry on Geoengineering: House Hearings
November 2009 - March 2010
Collaboration and Coordination on Geoengineering Introduction A joint inquiry on geoengineering was initiated in 2009 by the Science and Technology co [...]
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NOAA Refuses DHS Hurricane Modification Program
July 29, 2009
As we reported in May, more than 25 years after termination of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Project Stormfury, which aimed to [...]
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Operational Defenses through Weather Control in 2030
April 2009
“create localized fog or stratus cloud formations shielding critical assets against attack from energy based weapons” The United States needs to incor [...]
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COntrails Spreading Into Cirrus (COSIC)
March 2009
COntrails Spreading Into Cirrus (COSIC) aims to quantify the climate role of line shaped contrails caused by air-traffic that you often see in the sky [...]
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Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Scale Geoengineering
May 5, 2008
Geoengineering: Workshop on Unilateral Planetary Scale Geoengineering May 5, 2008 - Washington, DC [1] Directors: David G. Victor, Adjunct Senior Fell [...]
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Department of Homeland Security Hurricane Modification Workshop Report
February 6-7, 2008
In view of these realities, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the organizational assistance of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin [...]
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Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Research: FICER
January 2007 - Present
The Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER) Grants for (GEOENGINEERING) research are provided to the University of Calgary from gifts [...]
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CBS News: Sky Graffiti Warming Up Earth?
July 29, 2006
CBS News, Aired July 29, 2006 2:19 PM. Contrails are lines of exhaust left by planes. It can be fun to watch them as they crisscross the sky. But as A [...]
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HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) Operating at Full Power
2006
HAARP IRI is completed, with 180 towers, 72' tall, 80' apart, each with two pairs of crossed dipole antennas (2.8 to 8.3 MHz)(7 to 10 MHz), and a radi [...]
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Harnessing Artificial Tornadoes as an Energy Source
October 1, 2005
An atmospheric vortex engine (AVE) uses a controlled vortex to capture mechanical energy produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atm [...]
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Russian Geoengineering Solar Radiation Management Field Experiment
September 25, 2005
Results of a field experiment on studying solar radiation passing in the visible wavelength range are described with the model aerosol media created i [...]
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Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005
June 20, 2005
FAILED: H.R. 2995 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005. Rep. Mark Udall (Democrat) It is the purpo [...]
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September 11, 2001 Airline Groundings: Contrails Affect Daily Temperature Range
September 11, 2001
All flights were grounded after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the twin towers. A team of NASA scientists noticed that it got much colder that nigh [...]
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CME Group Launches Weather Derivatives
June 1999
Stock Market Betting On Weather and Climate Events From heat waves to arctic cold outbreaks, weather often has a significant impact on business. CME G [...]
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Doctor Evil’s Geoengineering Plan: From National Lab to Global Governance
August 15, 1997 - April 19, 2002
Edward Teller, Lowell Wood, and Roderick Hyde from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory publish three papers on climate change, geoengineering, and [...]
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Test Technology Symposium 1997: Weather Modification
March 19, 1997
Dr. Arnold A. Barnes Jr. from the USAF Phillips Lab gave a presentation titled “Session B: Advanced Weapon/Instrumentation Technologies.” where he dis [...]
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Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
1995-1996
US Air Force dreams of future weather warfare techniques. 2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force [...]
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FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Paper “Counterforce Weather Control: SPACECAST 2020”
June 1994
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release Counterforce Weather Control: SPACECAST 2020, Volume II [1]This is our final reply to your Januar [...]
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Mount Pinatubo Eruption Cools Planet, Scientists Rejoice
June 12, 1991
The ozone hole over Antarctica was the largest recorded following the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on June 12, 1991. Climate engineers excited by the global [...]
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Geoengineering with Sulfur, Jet Fuel, and Commercial Aviation
1991 - Present
Scientists propose how to geoengineer contrails with biofuels and sulfur-doped jet fuel 1991 - Stratospheric welsbach seeding for reduction of global [...]
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The “Silver Lining Project” Marine Cloud Brightening Boats
September 27, 1990
Double duty geoengineering and weather modification boats that spray oceanic salt water into clouds (marine strato-cumulus) to make them reflect sunli [...]
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Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) Experiment
1989-2010
Pumping CO2 into live forests to measure the effect of future climates on vegetation. The Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) technology was first develope [...]
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Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy, and Potential
May 1978
[FULL DISCLOSURE] Scoping report on all weather modification activities in the USA. This report was required by the Weather Modification Policy Act of [...]
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Cesare Marchetti Coins the Term “Geoengineering”
March 1977
Coined the term “geoengineering” and proposed sequestering CO2 in the deep ocean. The problem of C02 control in the atmosphere is tackled by proposing [...]
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The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) Weather Warfare Ban
December 10, 1976 - January 17, 1980
The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques Parties to the Environmental Modificat [...]
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National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976
October 13, 1976
S. 3383 (94th): National Weather Modification Policy Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a national policy on weather mod [...]
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Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972
December 18, 1971
Pubic Law 92–205, §1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 735 [H. R. 6893] [1] CHAPTER 9A-WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES OR ATTEMPTS; REPORTING REQUIREMENT §330. [...]
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Two States Sue Airlines Over “Smoke Pollution of the Skies”
1970-1972
“likely contrails are affecting precipitation to a much greater extent than are present deliberate seeding operations.” [1] Illinois and New Jersey of [...]
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Weather and Climate Modification Reports from 1965-1966
1965-1966
The Honorable Leland J. Haworth Director National Science Foundation Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Haworth: It is an honor to transmit herewith to the Na [...]
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Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
November 1965
Presidential report advises geoengineering solar radiation management (SRM) and investigated injecting condensation or freezing nuclei into the atmosp [...]
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President Lyndon Johnson Approves Weather Warfare
May 27, 1962 - 1969
“It lays the predicate and foundation for the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world's cloud layer and ultimat [...]
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President Kennedy United Nations Address On Weather Modification
September 25, 1961
“if the Soviets control space they can control earth, as in past centuries the nation that controlled the seas dominated the continents.” Senator John [...]
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U.S. Navy Creates and Destroys Clouds Using Carbon Black
September 9, 1958
"We dropped carbon black suspended in liquid, over a track a mile long and produced a solid line of clouds one mile long," Dr. Florence Van Straten to [...]
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Dam the Bering Strait, Use Nuclear-Powered Propellers to Melt Poles
1958
Arkady Markin, Soviet engineer; Proposed that the United States and Soviet Union build a gigantic dam across the Bering Strait and use nuclear power–d [...]
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Metal particle space ring to melt the arctic
1958
M. Gorodsky and Valentin Cherenkov proposed placing a ring of metallic potassium particles into Earth’s polar orbit to diffuse light reaching Earth an [...]
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Contrail Cirrus Complaints Begin Nationwide
November 16, 1948 - Present
"Darn Sky Riders: Jet Trails Dim Sun, Palm Springs Gripes" As you know our entire economy is dependent upon tourist trade, which is predicated on our [...]
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Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
October 20, 1948
The Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature was proposed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1940s, for land developmen [...]
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Nuke the Arctic to Melt the Poles
1945
Professor Julian Huxley, biologist and Secretary-General of UNESCO 1946–48, proposed exploding atomic bombs at an appropriate height above the polar r [...]
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Great Plains Shelterbelt and the Dust Bowl
1934-1942
The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. President Frankli [...]
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Space mirrors to focus sunlight and melt polar icecaps
1929
Proposed building giant mirrors on a space station to focus the Sun’s radiation on Earth’s surface, making the far North habitable and freeing sea lan [...]
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End Of Iceberg Menace!
September 29, 1912
A $190,000,000 Newfoundland Jetty Would Cause Axis to Shift, C. L. Riker Believes. END OF THE ICEBERG MENACE Plan to Send Gulf Stream Unchilled into A [...]
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Fire a Cannon to Tilt Earth's Axis, Melt Poles
1889
CHAPTER XI “The idea followed by the Administrative Council of the N.P.P.A. and the object of which is to substitute a new axis for the old one is to [...]
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Reroute warm ocean currents to melt the polar icecaps!
January 3, 1887
“How to Change the North American Climate,” announced the headline of one modest proposal published in The Atlantic. How indeed? It’s quite simple, sa [...]
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