16 February 2025 | ZeroGeoengineering.com | ZeroNotification.com | The Unrecognized Infrastructure of Weather Modification
There are two federal laws specifically addressing weather modification. Additionally, there are 27 states plus Washington, D.C., that have some sort of weather modification policies. The problem is, for decades weather modification programs have been occurring without informed consent or public oversight.
The term “weather modification” is defined as any activity performed with the intention of producing artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere.
A common form of weather modification is called cloud seeding. Cloud seeding, carried out via aircraft or ground generators, is a type of weather engineering or experimentation that alters atmospheric conditions by adding pollutants such as silver iodide, trimethyl aluminum, or liquid propane, into clouds. Cloud seeding may be used for both weather modification (small scale) and geoengineering (large scale) experiments. These activities are contrary to decades-long environmental efforts to reduce pollution.
In 2020, while people were under covid mandates, the governor’s authority under emergency powers were quietly expanded in nine states. There was no debate or public discussion about this weather modification policy addition in: Alaska, Arkansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.. Rhode Island is taking legislative action to repeal the governor’s emergency weather modification powers and prohibit polluting via weather modification. Meanwhile, measures have been introduced in Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma to repeal their current weather modification policies.
FLASHBACK 1965 National Science Foundation Weather and Climate Modification Report
“…cooperative programs with any State through such instrumentalities as may be designated by the governor of such State.”
Sixty years later, the National Science Foundation continues to spearhead weather experimentation.
The December 2024 GAO Cloud Seeding Technology Report, acknowledges that the 80 year-old cloud seeding technology is unproven, stating: “…in some studies we reviewed, when uncertainty was considered in estimates of cloud seeding effectiveness, the estimated effect was not distinguishable from zero with a high degree of statistical confidence.”
The result of 80 years of meddling and interfering with natural weather systems remains unacknowledged.
Cloud Seeding Increases Pollution
Cloud seeding technologies in regular use are listed in the chart below. The dispersion of polluting seeding agents into the atmosphere via aircraft is widely recognized. Less widely recognized about cloud seeding is the use of observational infrastructure – a foundational component of weather modification.
Few people realize that weather experimentation or forecasting utilizes ground-based communications infrastructure, which transmits microwave radiation pollution 24/7/365.
February 13, 2013 Cell Phone Towers As Rain Gauges
July 30, 2019 Forbes Cell Towers Weather Prediction
Below – H.R. 353 The Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017:
Cell phone calls and weather forecasting are two different functions currently regulated as one. There are no agencies monitoring or measuring the microwave radiation pollution generated by this infrastructure. For this reason, State bills are addressing the infrastructure of weather modification in its entirety.
The TCA applies solely to mobile phone calls or text made outdoors not to weather forecasting. Nor does the TCA apply to the radiation transmitted via satellite or Doppler radars also known as Next Generation Radar, or NEXRAD.
The following study on a Doppler radar found high levels of microwave radiation pollution.
If states do not have policy to prohibit weather modification activities and atmospheric experimentation, then by default, they adopt federal law.
State bills are emerging to challenge and correct federal weather modification policy in order to protect life and the natural environment from harmful pollution.
Related
5Z 2005 OSTP Letter RE: S. 517 Rebranding Weather Modification to Weather Research
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