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Iran Accuses Israel of Cloud Theft


June 2, 2018

"Joint teams from Israel and one of the neighboring countries make the clouds entering into Iran barren. Moreover, we are faced with the cases of clou [...]


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USDA Sprays Electrified Water Over Texas


July 2017

U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wesley C Hoffmann (Clint) from the Aerial Application Technology Research, Agricultural Engineering division used an [...]


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Drones electrically seed clouds in United Arab Emirates


2017-Present

Abu Dhabi-UAE: 24 April 2017 – The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science is collaborating with a team of leading meteorologists to develop [...]


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Climate Global Control Trading LLC Creates and Steers Hurricanes with Ionospheric Technology


January 2016

Climate Global Control Trading, LLC. Steers Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa In agreement of our company and Abu Dhabi, was a task to deposit precipitation in [...]


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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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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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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 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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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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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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Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009


April 16, 2009

This bill was introduced on May 20, 2009, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote. Although this bill was not enacted, its pr [...]


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Laser Guided Lightning Rods


2008-Present

DARPA Project NIMBUS Lightning can cause delays in operations, disrupt communications, destroy assets, and generally pose a deadly threat to military [...]


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Steering Cyclones with the Thunderstorm Solar Powered Satellite, Bernard Eastlund


April 21, 2008

Atmospheric heating as a research tool - Monday, 21 April 2008: 10:30 AM-12:10 PM, Standley I Lyle M. Jenkins on behalf of the late Bernard J. Eastlun [...]


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Chinese Weather Modification at the Beijing Olympics


March 25, 2008

How the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery. To prevent rain over the roofless 91,00 [...]


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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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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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Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005


March 3, 2005

FAILED: S. 517 (109th): Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005. Sen. Kay Hutchison (Republican). It is the pur [...]


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Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research


October 2003

“Although 40 years have passed since the first NAS report on weather modification, this Committee finds itself very much in concurrence with the findi [...]


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The Weather Damage Modification Program (WDMP)


2002-2005

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has been engaged in weather modification research since the 1960s, although this research declined signif [...]


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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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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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FOIA Reveals U.S. Navy Weather Modification Program Still Active at China Lake


April 1994

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release NON-LETHAL WARFARE PROPOSAL TITLE: WEATHER MODIFICATION [1] PROPOSED BY: Code C2741 (Warhead Deve [...]


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FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Geophysics Directorate Weather Modification Intentions


1994

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Classified Release TITLE: Weather Modification Using Carbon Black [1] PROPOSED BY: Phillips Laboratory (AFMC), Geoph [...]


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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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Russian Cloud Seeding Prevents Chernobyl’s Radioactive Rains Reaching Moscow


April 26, 1986

Russia used cloud seeding over Belarus to prevent Moscow from receiving radioactive rainfall (fallout) from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown. In [...]


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A High Flying Theory on Acid Rain Problem


September 1982

“I’ve seen instances when the blue sky, after a few hours, is laced almost completely in every conceivable direction, but mostly west to east, by jet [...]


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Clouded Judgment: Do Jet Contrails Increase Cloud Cover?


December 30, 1980

JOHN CHANCELLOR, anchor: On clear days, you can often see long white lines being traced high in the sky. They are contrails of jet aircraft. They’re a [...]


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NOAA Atmospheric Modification Program (AMP)


1980-1994

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Federal-State Cooperative Program in Atmospheric Modification Research (AMP). The State of Nort [...]


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Weather may be unnaturally severe because of unnatural modification


March 13, 1979

Admires noted that President Gerald Ford signed an international weather modification act in 1976 and shortly thereafter was able to ski on fresh snow [...]


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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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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 UAV Drones


November 4, 1974

In two flights at Edwards Air Force Base in the Southern California desert. The pilotless plane has flown up to 5 hours and 8 minutes and to altitudes [...]


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Steering Hurricanes with Carbon Black Dust


July 1974

William Gray and company describe the use of carbon black dust (CBD) dispersed by aircraft to alter weather and create cirrus clouds. It may also be p [...]


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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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CIA Project Nile Blue - Rain Embargo on Cuban Sugar Crops


1969-1970

“But the seeding near Cuba was to cause less rain, not more. It was supposed to squeeze rain out of clouds before they reached the island. You might s [...]


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Great Lakes Snow Redistribution Project


1968-1972

The primary objective of the Great Lakes Snow Redistribution Project is to alleviate the heavy snowfalls which annually hamper Buffalo, New York, and [...]


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Solar-Powered Satellite (SPS) Weather Control Death Ray


1968

Climatological and heating effects of the microwave power trans­mission system in the lower atmosphere. Between 60 and 500 km, the atmosphere is subje [...]


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Operation Popeye, Motorpool, Intermediary, Compatriot: Weather Warfare Over Vietnam


March 20, 1967 - July 5, 1972

Operation Popeye's weather warfare project was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and was allegedly sponsored by Secretary of St [...]


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A Recommended National Program In Weather Modification


November 7, 1966

MEMORANDUM FOR DR. DONALD F. HORNIG Subject: Weather Modification Program At its meeting of March 29, 1966 the Federal Council asked ICAS to prepare a [...]


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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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National Cumulus Modification Project


1963 - 1972

NOAA hurricane mitigation cloud seeding experiments over Carribbean and Florida. The Departement of Commerce's National Oceanic and Amtospheric Admini [...]


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Project Stormfury


August 17, 1962 - 1983

Project Stormfury - the ESSA/Navy hurricane research and modification program - will attempt to seed hurricanes massively and repeatedly, to learn whe [...]


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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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Project Skywater: Atmospheric Water Resources Management


1961 - 1988

“to explore, develop and determine the feasibility of applying the technology of weather modification to meet the Nation’s increasing demand for clean [...]


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National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE)


1959 - 1981

The National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) is a scientific field program established to answer the question of whether or not man can modify hailsto [...]


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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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Project Skyfire: Preventing Forest Fires with Cloud Seeding


1956 - 1967

The Project Skyfire cloud-seeding generator is designed to produce silver iodide nuclei for experiments performed in devising techniques for lightning [...]


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Project SCUD, U.S. Navy Hurricane Modification


October 1952 - March 1954

This experiment was conducted in the central and southeast coast of hte United States to study primarily the effects of aerial seeding with dry ice an [...]


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Cloud Seeding Projects in the USA (1952-1965)


1952-1965

Randomized experimentation in weather modification is like the weather itself: many people talk about it, but few actually do it. In the 17 years sinc [...]


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Irving P. Krick's Ground-based Cloud Seeder


December 1949

In December 1949 Krick suggested cloud seeding without resorting to airborne devices; his proposal employed ground-based smoke generators dispersing v [...]


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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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Project Cirrus, First Hurricane Cloud Seeding Experiment


October 13, 1947

The energy expended by a tropical hurricane is enough to drive all the machinery in the world for three or four years. Yet the Army, the Navy and Gene [...]


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Vincent Schaefer, Irving Langmuir, and Bernard Vonnegut invent Cloud Seeding


November 13, 1946

Vincent Schaefer (1906–1993) discovered the principle of cloud seeding in July 1946 through a series of serendipitous events. Following ideas generate [...]


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Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO)


1946

During world war two, fog was dispersed with a secret weapon called Fido. This stood for either “Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operations” or “Fog, [...]


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C.W. Post: Cereal Czar and Rainmaker


1911-1914

The cereal manufacturer, C. W. Post of Texas, maintained belief in the concussion method. From 1911 to 1914, Post executed “rain battles” near Post Ci [...]


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Charles Mallory Hatfield “The Moisture Accelerator” Makes Rain For L.A., Floods San Diego


1902 - January 20, 1916

The indisputable fact is that Hatfield went into the hills nineteen times to bring on a rain, and nineteen times it rained when he promised. Last Dece [...]


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Steiger Vortex Rain-Making Gun


September 1902

The Steiger Vortex gun is a cone-shaped barrel, fabricated from sheet steel, designed as a rainmaking device. The gun was originally designed by Alber [...]


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Rain-Making Test Unpopular in Washington


November 3, 1892

SHOWERED GLASS AND PLASTER. Rain-Making Tests Unpopular in Washington. Bombardment of the Sky Kept Up All Night. After a dry spell of many weeks, Wash [...]


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Effects of Rain-Making


September 5, 1891

Uncle Sam’s Rain: Prosperity. Politician’s Rain: Office. Miser’s Rain: Money. Merchant’s Rain: Orders. Farmer’s Rain: Crops. Spinster’s Rain: Angels? [...]


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“Ohio Rain Wizard” Frank Melbourne


1891-1893

RAIN TO ORDER. An Interview With Frank Melbourne, the Rain King. CINCINNATI, July 3. — An evening paper publishes the following interview held with Fr [...]


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An Ode to Pluviculture


1891

“The Rhyme of the Rain Machine” by F. W. Clarke Said Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones “The weather is far too dry, So I reckon I’ll have to stir my bones [...]


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Gen. Robert St. George “Dry Hence Forth” Dyrenforth


1890-1892

It is not surprising that European American settlers in the Great Plains, dependent on agriculture and plagued by drought, would develop an interest i [...]


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James Pollard Espy - The Storm King


1841

James Pollard Espy (or “The Storm King”) (May 9 1785 – January 24 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist who proposed burning forests on the west coast of the [...]


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