By Mark Anderson
Stop the Presses News & Commentary
There’s long been such a thing as cloud-seeding as a form of weather modification—an example being the U.S. military’s clandestine Operation Popeye that illegally applied a “cold cloud modification system,” using three WC-130 planes to shoot silver-iodide flares into the skies and induce heavy rains to muddy the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The purpose? Stop or slow North Vietnamese troop convoys
But there’s a growing recognition that much else is going on above us—and has been for a long time. The photo accompanying this post is derived from a video of former CIA chief John Brennan tacitly admitting to the existence of atmospheric modification programs as he spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations. To see the video itself, click this link:
Many people call those frequent cross-cross streaks that mar our otherwise blue skies “chemtrails,” a broad term, which some scoff at, that refers to visual evidence of an apparent program involving atmospheric spraying that goes beyond creating rainfall.
Perhaps the most common claim is that atmospheric aerosols are being sprayed to deflect sunlight and keep the earth from getting too warm, under the “climate change” theory that world temperatures are unnaturally rising and humanity’s industrial emissions are chiefly to blame.
So, in today’s political and scientific “climate,” consisting of some facts and ample conjecture, along comes the state of Rhode Island, whose House has passed a bill that acknowledges the existence of atmospheric-modification programs generally known as “geoengineering.” The bill that 39th District State Rep. Justin Price (R) introduced is The Geoengineering Act of 2017” (RI H6011).
“The Rhode Island general assembly finds that geoengineering encompasses many technologies and methods involving hazardous activities that can harm human health and safety, the environment, and the economy of the state of Rhode Island. . . . It is therefore the intention of the Rhode Island general assembly to regulate all geoengineering activities,” the bill says.
Regarding regulation, the bill would “provide that a person seeking to engage in geoengineering activities would require a license from the director of the Department of Environmental Management,” an April 2017 legislative news release explained, adding: “Geoengineering is defined as the intentional manipulation of the environment, involving nuclear, biological, chemical, electromagnetic and/or other physical-agent activities that affect changes to earth’s atmosphere and/or surface.”
Specialists that this Stop the Presses editor has interviewed regarding geoengineering have some weighty concerns, especially regarding the bill’s “regulation” provision.
“There are concerted efforts in America and in Europe,” nuclear physicist and atmospheric researcher J. Marvin Herndon told Stop the Presses, “that are aimed at geoengineering ‘governance.’ All of those efforts, to my knowledge, fail to tell the full truth, fail to admit that geoengineering has been taking place covertly for decades.”
He continued, “The more I learn of the horrific adverse health consequences for humans and other biota, the more I realize that there is only one acceptable act of governance: The total and complete ban on placing any and all substances into the air we breathe for any reason.”
Although Herndon did add: “Representative Justin Price deserves major kudos for not burying his head in the sand as most (virtually all) civic leaders do.”
To be sure, the bill does require advance disclosure of precise geoengineering plans before they’re carried out; otherwise, geo-engineering should be banned, says Price, who remarked: “I think the public should not take the idea of geoengineering lightly, because we have no idea what irreversible damage could be done to the planet or our atmosphere . . . . Either the entire process is completely transparent to the public, with strict oversight, or I say, it absolutely should not happen.”
This bill, introduced back on March 24 and passed by the House Sept. 19 by a 67-0 vote, would “create a 5-member commission to study and provide recommendations on the regulation and licensure of geo-engineering. . .”
Yet this issue runs even deeper than many may suspect. Jim Lee of South Carolina, a full-time citizen researcher on geoengineering, especially weather modification, spoke at length on such matters at last December’s Freedom Force International conference, “Global Warming: An Inconvenient Lie” in Phoenix, Arizona.
While he, too, credits Rep. Price for waking people up about geoengineering, there already are broader laws on this subject that have long been on the books—such as the Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1976—that should be, but are not, being utilized to bring clandestine atmospheric modification into full public view and establish a means of policing, punishing or banning it.
The bill’s text does say, though, that violators would be punished $500,000 per occurrence with “not less than 190 days” in jail. And per-occurrence could mean per-day.
“With the Rhode Island bill, there’s no way to punish anybody,” Lee countered. “It doesn’t say anything about how you catch somebody [engaging in geoengineering flights] without a license. The 24-hour prior notice in the bill is OK, but we have to deploy atmospheric sensors to catch violators in the act.”
As he understands the big picture, most atmospheric modification programs are “deep-state” and by definition would be hard to thwart under the Rhode Island bill—given the limited jurisdiction and land area of that small eastern state. But Lee said the average person, as well as government agencies, can readily obtain sensors that can be deployed to collect airborne chemical traces. This could be used as evidence with which to identify law-breakers and find out if their activities have caused harm—such as ultra-dry conditions that give way to fires, or illness in humans and animals.
And given the strange characteristics and patterns of the unusually hot and rapid Northern California fires, it's long overdue to achieve some breakthroughs on just exactly what's happening to the environment, well beyond standard fruitless debates over mere "global warming."