No. Our governments are studying how to decrease sunlight because they think it will be good for us. Here’s how
James Pascual
Farmers Forum
OTTAWA — Geo-engineering is weather modification, an act of intentionally manipulating or altering the weather. The most common form of weather modification is cloud seeding, which increases rain or snow, usually for the purpose of increasing the local water supply, as in hot and arid Dubai. In Dubai, hygroscopic salt flares, containing materials like sodium chloride, are sprayed into clouds. These particles attract moisture, forming heavier droplets that trigger rain.
Clouding seeding is practiced in Alberta. Insurance companies got together to pay for clouding seeding prior to a hail storm over Calgary to transform hail into water and prevent car damage on the ground.
Weather modification has been around a long time and has been weaponized. The Americans used Operation Popeye, where clouds were seeded to prolong a monsoon, during the Vietnam war, to demoralize the enemy. More recently, the president of Iran in 2016 accused Western countries of planning a drought by using high tech equipment to drain clouds of raindrops.
Historical data shows that over long periods of time the earth warms and cools and we are now in a warming period. World governments think the warming is a crisis and is man made and are looking into geo-engineering on a larger scale to combat what they call global warming.
Here are some of the geo-engineering techniques:
Solar radiation management: This refers to a set of geoengineering techniques to reflect sunlight away from earth to cool surface temperature. It involves methods like injecting aerosols (e.g., sulfur particles) into the stratosphere to mimic volcanic cooling effects, deploying space-based reflectors, or increasing cloud reflectivity by whitening clouds through cloud seeding.
Particles pumped out at high altitudes include what governments say are non-toxic mineral dust (e.g., limestone or dolomite), into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space.
Above 20,000 feet, seeding high altitude clouds, composed of ice particles, requires different treatment. Cloud seeding would use particles of bismuth triiodide, silver iodide, or dry ice to reduce the cloud lifespan, allowing more heat to escape into space, as these clouds trap heat.
Marine cloud brightening: Ships would spray seawater into the atmosphere to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds, making them brighter and more effective at reflecting sunlight.
Arctic sea ice thickening: Experiments aim to pump water from beneath ice sheets to the surface, spreading it over areas up to one square kilometer to thicken sea ice, making it more reflective. Trials are planned in the Norwegian Arctic (Svalbard) and Canada, potentially starting as early as next winter.