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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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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HAARP Readies for Busiest Research Season since UAF Acquired Observatory in 2015
April 6-14, 2018
“Alaska’s super-power High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) transmitters in Gakona, Alaska, will fire up again for the spring researc [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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HAARP Creates Densest Artificial Plasma Cloud
November 12, 2012
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research physicists and engineers from the Plasma Physics Division, working at the High-frequency Active Auroral [...]
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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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Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)
September 8-18, 2009
NASA's Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), Plans To 'Make Clouds' Tonight . . . A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artifi [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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High Voltage Orbiting Long Tether (HiVOLT) to Remove Space Radiation
2002
The space radiation environment presents a significant impediment to both human and robotic exploration and development of space. The Earth’s magnetic [...]
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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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The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is Operational
March 1999
The HAARP facility becomes operational, with a radiated power of 960 kW. Introduction: Electromagnetic waves in certain frequency ranges are absorbed [...]
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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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Secretary of Defense William Cohen on Eco-Terrorism with Electromagnetic Waves
April 28, 1997
There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangero [...]
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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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Triggered-Lightning Avoidance for Space Launches
1996-1998
Shown is a photograph (below) of a lightning flash that was triggered 49 seconds after the 1987 launch of the Atlas/Centaur-67, resulting in total des [...]
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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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Triggering the HF Breakdown of the Atmosphere by Barium Release
March 19, 1993
RF ionization rates for mixtures of air with bariurn are computed using a Fokker-Planck code. It is shown that there is an optimum mixing ratio of bar [...]
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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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Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) and the Arecibo Ionospheric Heater
July 1990 - September 1993
Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) dumps chemicals in space while a ground-based microwave antenna in Arecibo, Puerto Rico heats [...]
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Department of Defense HAARP Steering Group - Joint Services Program
December 13, 1989 - February 12, 1990
HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program - Joint Services Program Plans and Activities Summary of HAARP Steering Group Activities and Schedule Dec. 13 [...]
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International Treaties and Active Experiments in Space
September 1, 1989
Satellite explorations of the near earth environment have vastly increased our understanding of space plasmas and their interactions with systems. A l [...]
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Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR)
July 13, 1989
On July 13, 1989 the BEAM experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR) linear accelerator was successfully launched and operated in space. The flight demonstrated [...]
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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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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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Stanford Star Lab: New Concepts in Ionospheric Modification
April 15, 1986 - November 1987
Stanford's Star Lab plans future of space weather modification. By directing repetitive pulses of the electron beam downwards along the magnetic field [...]
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The Russian Woodpecker, Chernobyl Meltdown, and Ionospheric Heating Over the USA (1983-1986)
1983-1986
Last Christmas the low temperature records in 21 states and 60 cities were broken. According to the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas C [...]
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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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Project Waterhole, Interrupting Aurora With Water Vapor
1981-1984
Project Waterhole is a series of three sounding rocket launches supported by extensive ground based scientific instrumentation. The purpose of the pro [...]
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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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NASA Project Cameo Barium Cloud Over Alaska
October 30, 1978
The space agency released barium from a satellite over Alaska Sunday, creating glowing, bluish-white clouds for a weather experiment to study the move [...]
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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 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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Sounding Rockets Explosive Shells Pound Ionosphere
1970 - 1975
December 1, 1970 to April 28, 1972 - ARPA Project SECEDE Contractor: University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute. Amount of Contract: $283,849.00 Stri [...]
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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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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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Project High Altitude Research Program (HARP) Cannons Launch Chemical Payloads Into Space
June 1965
U. S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND BALLISTIC' RESEARCH LABORATORIES ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND Project High Altitude Research Program (HARP) is direct [...]
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Artificial Strontium and Barium Clouds in the Upper Atmosphere
February 14, 1964 - December 3, 1964
“So far seven different experiments have been carried out with sounding rockets in the Sahara and in Sardinia.” Active experiments in the magnetospher [...]
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Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
October 10, 1963
Upper-atmospheric nuclear explosions fry satellites by creating artificial radiation belts. Discovery of "The Christofilos Effect" was made during Ope [...]
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Plasma Seeding and Magnetospheric Modification Begins!
May 1963 - Present
“Create an artificial ion cloud in interplanetary space for studying the state of the interplanetary medium .. sounding rocket experiments of May 1963 [...]
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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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Project Highwater
April 25, 1962 - November 16, 1962
Experimental release of water in the ionosphere resulted in ice clouds and radio disruption. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United States plans to laun [...]
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Project West Ford
October 21, 1961 - September 5, 1963
480,000,000 copper dipole antennas launched into orbit. The West Ford Needles project was an experiment to allow long distance communications by bounc [...]
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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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Meteotron Jet Engines Create Clouds and Tornadoes
June 17, 1961 - 1969
A French scientist, J. Dessens of the Observatoire du Puy de Dome, Clermont University, reports in Nature the discovery by accident of a way to make t [...]
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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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Project Firefly - Chemical Releases in Space
July-December 1960
Project Firefly 1960, the upper atmosphere chemical release program of the Geophysics Research Directorate, in cooperation with other participting age [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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