Again, no one here is claiming aliens or any of that CRAP. I dont understand why people always throw anything that is unknown into the BS category.
There HAVE been human rights violations at Area 51. There have been many that have been leaked.....do some research. It doesnt make the news, it gets swept under the rug like everything else at Area 51. And now that everyone knows about Area 51, I would bet money that they went ahead and built another "non existent" facility.
Black Budget Items.... Exactly. So are you saying the USA government has absolutely no interest in
Geoengineering?
Whos jumping at shadows? Im just not so quick to chalk it up as BS.
I haven't challenged your claims about attempts made at Weather Control, just I fail to see any point in relating them to the contrails and vapor trails in the sky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
This one should answer the questions about what chemicals are used, Silver Iodide, and Dry Ice (CO2)
With an NFPA 704 rating of Blue 2,
silver iodide can cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury (e.g., chloroform) with intense or continued but not chronic exposure. However, there have been several detailed ecological studies that showed negligible environmental and health impacts.
[2][3][4]. The toxicity of silver and silver compounds (from silver iodide) was shown to be of low order in some studies. These findings likely result from the minute amounts of silver generated by cloud seeding, which are 100 times less than industry emissions into the atmosphere in many parts of the world, or individual exposure from tooth fillings
[5].
Modern uses
The largest cloud seeding system in the world is that of the
People's Republic of China, which believes that it increases the amount of rain over several increasingly
arid regions, including its capital city,
Beijing, by firing silver iodide
rockets into the sky where rain is desired. There is even political strife caused by neighboring regions which accuse each other of "stealing rain" using cloud seeding
[5]. About 24 countries currently practice weather modification operationally. China has used cloud seeding in
Beijing just before the 2008 Olympic Games in order to clear the air of pollution. Again, see above for disputes regarding the Chinese claims.
[6]
In the
United States, cloud seeding is used to increase precipitation in areas experiencing
drought, to reduce the size of
hailstones that form in
thunderstorms, and to reduce the amount of
fog in and around
airports. Cloud seeding is also occasionally used by major
ski resorts to induce snowfall. Eleven western states and one Canadian province (Alberta) have ongoing weather modification operational programs
[7]. In January 2006, an $8.8 million cloud seeding project began in
Wyoming to examine the effects of cloud seeding on snowfall over Wyoming's
Medicine Bow,
Sierra Madre, and
Wind River mountain ranges.
[8]
A number of commercial companies, such as Aero Systems Incorporated
[9], Atmospherics Incorporated
[10], North American Weather Consultants
[11], Weather Modification Incorporated
[12], Weather Enhancement Technologies International
[13], Seeding Operations and Atmospheric Research (SOAR)
[14], offer weather modification services centered on cloud seeding. The USAF proposed its use on the battlefield in 1996, although the U.S. signed an international treaty in 1978 banning the use of weather modification for hostile purposes.
In Australia, CSIROs activities in
Tasmania in the 1960s were successful[
citation needed]. Seeding over the
Hydro-Electricity Commission catchment area on the Central Plateau achieved rainfall increases as high as 30% in autumn. The Tasmanian experiments were so successful that the Commission has regularly undertaken seeding ever since in mountainous parts of the State.
Russian military pilots seeded clouds over
Belarus after the
Chernobyl disaster to remove radioactive particles from clouds heading toward
Moscow.
[15]
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/19/when-cloud-seeding-goes-wrong-cement-chunk-falls-from-the-sky/
http://ask.yahoo.com/20020920.html
http://www.nawcinc.com/wmfaq.html
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/cloudseeding.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stormfury
There were no more near-seedings until 1969. In the interim, equipment was improved. What once was the primitive method of hand-dumping dry ice was replaced with rocket canisters loaded with silver iodide, and then gun-like devices mounted on the wings of the airplanes that fired silver iodide into the clouds. Observation equipment was improved.
[9] Additional reconnaissance data was utilized to modify the working hypothesis. The new theory took cumulus towers outside the
eyewall into account. According to the revised theory, by seeding the towers,
latent heat would be released. This would trigger the start of new convection, which would then cause a new eyewall. Since the new eyewall was outside the original one, the first eyewall would be choked off of energy and fall apart. In addition, since the new eyewall was broader than the old one, the winds would be lower due to a less sharp pressure difference.
[9]
Hurricane Debbie provided the best opportunity to test the underpinnings of Project Stormfury. In many ways it was the perfect storm for seeding: it did not threaten any land; it passed within range of seeding aircraft; and was intense with a distinct eye.
[13] On
August 18 and again on
August 20, thirteen planes flew out to the storm to monitor and seed it. On the first day, windspeeds fell by 31%.
[11] On the second day, windspeeds fell by 18%.
[11] Both changes were consistent with Stormfury's working hypothesis. Indeed, the results were so encouraging that "a greatly expanded research program was planned."
[14] Among other conclusions was the need for frequent seeding at close to hourly intervals.
[15]
The
1970 and
1971 seasons provided no suitable seeding candidates.
[11] Despite this, flights were conducted into
Hurricane Ginger. Ginger was not a suitable storm for seeding, due to its diffuse, indistinct nature. The seeding had no effect. Ginger was the last seeding done by Project Stormfury.
[11]
After the seedings
Stormfury inside
Tropical Storm Dorothy
Atlantic hurricanes meeting all of the criteria were extremely rare, which made duplication of the "success" reached with Hurricane Debbie extremely difficult. Meanwhile, developments outside of meteorology hindered the cause of hurricane modification.
In the early 1970s, the Navy withdrew from the project.
[16] Stormfury began to refocus its efforts on understanding, rather than modifying, tropical cyclones.
[17] At the same time, the Project's aircraft were nearing the end of their operational lifetimes. At the cost of $30 million (year unknown)
[16] two
Lockheed P-3's were acquired. Due to the rarity of Atlantic hurricanes meeting the safety requirements, plans were made to move Stormfury to the Pacific and experiment on the large number of typhoons there.
[10] This action required many of the same safety requirements as in the Atlantic, but had the advantage of a much higher number of potential subjects.
[16]
The plan was to begin again in 1976, and seed typhoons by flying out of
Guam. However, political issues blocked the plan. The
People's Republic of China announced that it would not be happy if a seeded typhoon changed course and made landfall on its shores,
[10] while
Japan declared itself willing to put up with difficulties caused by typhoons because that country got more than half of its rainfall from tropical cyclones.
[10]
Similar plans to operate Stormfury in the eastern north Pacific or in the
Australian region also collapsed.
[18]
Failure of the working hypothesis
Multiple eyewalls had been detected in very strong hurricanes before, including
Typhoon Sarah[19] and
Hurricane Donna,
[20] although the double eyes were usually seen in very intense systems. Double eyewalls were also seen post-seeding in some of the seeded storms. At the time however, the only known times that rapid changes in eyewall diameter, other than during presumably successful seedings, was during rapid changes in intensity.
[21] It remained controversial whether the seedings caused the secondary eyewalls or whether it was just a natural cycle.
[22] Basically, if eyewall changes similar to those observed in seeded hurricanes were rare in unseeded tropical cyclones, it would provide powerful evidence that Project Stormfury was successful. Inversely, if such changes were common in unseeded systems, it would throw doubt on the very hypothesis and assumptions driving Project Stormfury.
[23]
Data and observations began to accumulate that debunked Stormfury's working hypothesis. Beginning with Hurricanes
Anita and
David, flights by
Hurricane Hunter aircraft encountered events similar to what happened in "successfully" seeded storms.
[23] Anita itself had a weak example of a concentric eyewall cycle, and David a more dramatic one.
[22] In August 1980, Hurricane Allen passed through the
Atlantic,
Caribbean, and
Gulf of Mexico. It also underwent changes in the diameter of its eye and developed multiple eyewalls. All this was consistent with the behavior that would have been expected of Allen had it been seeded. Thus, what Stormfury was accomplishing by seeding was also happening on its own.
[24]
Other observations in Hurricanes Anita, David,
Frederic, and Allen
[25] also discovered that tropical cyclones have very little supercooled water and a great deal of ice crystals.
[26] The reason that tropical cyclones have little supercooled water is that the
updrafts within such a system are too weak to prevent water from either falling as rain or freezing.
[27] As cloud seeding needed supercooled water to function, the lack of supercooled water meant that seeding would have no effect.
Those observations called the basis for Project Stormfury into question. In the middle of 1983, Stormfury was finally canceled after the hypothesis guiding its efforts was debunked.
[28]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_cannon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Weather_Modification_Office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Convention
http://www.water.utah.gov/cloudseeding/pdf/facts96.pdf
Of course, the Silver Iodide and CO2 could potentially explain Chem Trails, but I really doubt that the government has come up with an idea to try seeding the exhaust trails of jets to cause it to rain.
There's no telling if the energy wasted pursuing such an action would justify the potential financial returns.
Though all this really does show that there's hardly a secret conspiracy about using vapor trails for weather modification, it's (well there's a lot) pretty much out in the open.
