Guest writer for Wake Up World
Is Geoengineering pushing us into climate chaos? The short answer is yes. Here’s how…
Start with something dynamic, like the weather and its increasing propensity toward sudden, drastic and lingering surprises. As the geological record of mass extinctions repeatedly shows, if pushed too far by various atmospheric conditions (like mass methane releases or meltwater shutdowns of ocean circulations), the longer-term weather patterns we call ‘climate’ can change drastically, for a very long time, within a decade. Or a year.
Geoengineers understand that complex weather behaviour emerges from a few simple initial conditions. Change those conditions along a broad atmospheric front by deploying aerial refuelling tankers to spread particles that accrete moisture and scatter incoming sunlight, absorb energy from ionospheric heaters like HAARP, or rapidly cool air masses by dispensing ice-nucleating chemicals that act like an airborne flash mob – and you change the heat balance of that airspace and thus the resulting weather. Do this repeatedly, spreading megatons of atmospheric-forcing particulates behind hundreds of heavy aircraft for many years and even climate can be altered.
But which way will it jump?
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If the flapping of a butterfly’s wings can randomly influence the course of a distant hurricane, consider an air force “wing” of 72 jet tankers, each spreading 200,000 pounds of aerosol particles one-tenth the diameter of a human hair along a flight path traversing thousands of miles. With our compounding emissions already hurrying heat and humidity in some places to the edge of liveable limits, geoengineering is the unwelcome bully that threatens to jerk the trigger on looming Abrupt Climate Shift.
Juggling Snakes
Earth’s climate system is chaotic enough to turn occasional stumbles into full-fledged flipouts. So the last thing anyone would want to do is to trigger such an upset with planeloads of monkey-wrenching aerosols. Right?
To elevate such planetary roulette from the status of blind swings at a constantly shifting atmospheric pià±ata to a reliably predictable science, the desired weather/climate output must be proportional to each atmospheric modification input. And the resulting atmospheric events must also react the same ways every time. That’s why we call such predictable progressions, linear. But the atmosphere, like life, is nonlinear.
Nonlinear means “full of surprises”. While short-term moisture, temperature and pressure trends can presage near-term weather over a day or two, the further into the future forecasts extend, the more variables are introduced by air masses feeding back on themselves. Other wild cards faced by the geoengineers include heat-trapping gases accumulated over the past 200 years, atmospheric and oceanic “feedbacks” like major methane burps, hyper-evaporation, warming waters and melting ice sheets, unscheduled volcanic eruptions, the fracking plague, and climax civilizations bristling with dirty stacks and exhausts – plus their own geoengineering efforts, ongoing since at least 1997 when I broke this story worldwide for Environment News Service. [see: Chemtrails Confirmed 2010 by William Thomas]
Because changes in Earth’s intricately-coupled biosphere occur simultaneously and interactively, attempting to anticipate and alter so many constantly changing conditions makes large-scale climate modification an exercise in juggling snakes. Begin with a few characteristics of the long-term weather patterns you want to change; Just seven building blocks can interact with each other one million different ways. Jump to a hundred climate-determining factors and each one will interact with the other 99, yielding 10 billion possibilities. Some outcomes are more likely than others, but this hardly precludes unpleasant nonlinear responses to deliberate planet meddling. [see “Considering Complexity” by William Thomas, Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine 1994]
Remember, the atmosphere is an “adaptive” participant in every geoengineering mugging, responding to each input every time with widely different outcomes. Since abrupt discontinuities are a prime feature of nonlinear systems, when attempting large-scale weather modification, unintended consequences are built-in. Like turning off the African and Asian monsoons on which many billions of not-just-human lives depend. [see: 20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be A Bad Idea by Alan Robock, via www.envsci.rutgers.edu]
The result of all this atmospheric forcing is climate chaos. “Chaotic” means “unpredictable”. Punch-drunk by our ever-accumulating heat-trapping exhausts, at least 17 years of concerted geoengineering efforts, a wonky jetstream, and dozens of amplifying feedbacks from thawing tundra, clearcut forests, burning forests, melting ice sheets and the expanding ocean heat reservoir (for example) – it’s no wonder so much inconvenient weather is lurching across this planet.
Geoengineering aerosols over Belgium
How do increasingly destabilized weather systems respond to deliberate further prodding by targeted laydowns of particulates powerful enough to disrupt air masses and soak up residual moisture like a sponge?
Nobody knows. The atmospheric predictions being produced by our best supercomputers are crunching incomplete data that ignores climate feedbacks and geoengineering, and are falling further behind the alarming weather headlines that are resulting from this churning complexity, which is ultimately unknowable. Given all the still-ignored feedbacks we’ve set in motion, most notably geoengineering, it’s not surprising that climate changes continue to outpace our data models. Any climate activist or “scientist” who continues to ignore these well-documented aerosol assaults is working with fatally flawed data. [For more information, see Chemtrails Timeline to 2013 by William Thomas.]
Geoengineering outcomes can be observed. There is no question that Solar Radiation Mismanagement (SRM) by allied governments is contributing significantly to the Great Drying, which may soon segue into the Great Dying. This is why the authors who studied Mount Pinatubo’s eruption do not support geoengineering; “Creating a risk of widespread drought and reduced freshwater resources for the world to cut down on global warming”, they write, “does not seem like an appropriate fix.” [This Changes Everything] We know from years of airborne experimentation that attempting to impose an inherently flawed model on Earth’s atmosphere under the official title of “Owning The Weather” invariably produces the opposite result.
As Naomi Klein writes, geoengineering “may cause the earth to go wild in ways we cannot imagine, making geoengineering not the final engineering frontier… but the last tragic act in this century-long fairy tale of control.” [This Changes Everything]
Welcome to Climate Chaos
So what does climate chaos look like?
- It looks like dozens of craters, one more than a half-mile in diameter, caused by pockets of exploding methane in the thawing permafrost of northern Russia, where temperatures prowl up to +20 °C above longtime norms, and the resulting wildfires over hundred-mile fire fronts are spreading solar heat-absorbing ash over vast stretches of the once reflective far north.
- It looks like endless pools of meltwater acting as lenses across the tundra, focusing sunlight into thawing even more super-warming methane.
- It looks like the 80 devastated islands of Vanuatu, where I once sailed my trimaran and where half the population has been left homeless by a hot ocean-fuelled Cyclone Pam.
- It looks like that blocking high over Brazil, where Sao Paulo’s 11 million residents face the prospect of dry taps. Another 33 million people in the Sao Paulo region fear the same fate. And they are not alone.
- It looks like the sea level rise that has driven 100,000 people away from their Indus River delta farms due to repeated flooding and saltwater intrusion into the water table.
- It looks like California’s “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” of high pressure that anomalously persists, re-building itself after every surge of westerly winds or invading cold air threatens to collapse this weather wall, but to the continuous accompaniment of the aerosol jets, doesn’t. Weather researcher Daniel Swain can find no evidence of a North Pacific ridge of this magnitude and persistence “in the observational record.”
Who Done It?
As Rutgers University professor Jennifer Francis explains, the loss of reflective sea ice and resulting heated surface air rising from dark waters is producing a northerly bulge in the jet stream that builds high pressure in the East.
Methane Cavern – Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration
Winds flowing “downhill” from this embedded High bring cold Arctic air southward into eastern Canada and the United States, as a persistent high pressure dome off the west coast flows warm, wet air north into Alaska, where the international Fur Rondy sled dog race, held every year since 1946, cannot mush “due to warm weather and heavy rain.”
So is atmospheric warming or geoengineering responsible for California’s thirst and Alaska’s failed winter? The answer: Both are so intricately meshed, it’s no longer possible to distinguish one from the other. At least until we shut off Teller’s sunscreen.
Are all these chemical and contrail sky plumes painting us into an untenable corner?
Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, David Travis measured a roughly 2°F difference over those three contrail free days between the rising day time and falling night time temperatures across continental U.S.A. (In 2005, James Hansen’s NASA team crunched slightly different numbers for 9/11 and came up with an average mean temperature change of just .05 °F – a perfect example of a changed starting point drastically altering complex outcomes.)
There is no way a few days of absent contrails (while geoengineering continued) equate with the disrupted hydrological cycle from 5,000+ days of aerosol spraying. But the 9/11 “experiment” in mass mind control and atmospheric processes means we dare not continue an experiment that artificially desiccates air masses as short-lived speed bumps to skyrocketing air temperatures. If Hansen is right, geoengineering isn’t working. If Travis is correct and we stop spraying particulates (whose tiny 10-micron size is deemed an Extreme Human Health Hazard by the EPA) we face an unknown instant temperature jump in a feedback-sensitive atmosphere already heading toward a 4°-6°C rise by 2035.
Climate changes are carrying us toward Abrupt Climate Shift. The geoengineers are saving us to death. “Putting our planet’s life-support on geoengineering life-support that can’t be turned off without an instant spike in temperatures is not a wise idea”, Naomi Klein suggests. “University professor Rob Nixon describes the brutality of climate change as ‘slow violence’; Geoengineering could be a tool to significantly speed that up.”
While many point to geoengineering as the culprit behind the ever more disruptive climate change they otherwise deny, and geoengineers use “climate change” to disguise the climate chaos they’re inciting; nearly two decades of large-scale geoengineering have erased the natural baseline by which we might measure climate impacts and gauge their rates of change.
Going Under
When unstable systems like Earth’s climate are pushed past critical thresholds, self-amplifying feedbacks cause chaos, which eventually degrades into a much simplified state. Examples include disappeared rainforests flipping into deserts, a once-teeming ocean turning into a vast acidic dead zone, seasonal regional climates suitable for agriculture and human life “simplified” into enduring heatwaves, and seawater inching towards 634 million pairs of human feet.
Before we can agree to step back from the climate precipice, geoengineering is shoving us toward the kinds of social breakdown occurring in Miami Beach, where “slimy green saltwater” from rising seas is filling streets, blocking doors, ruining vehicles, and inundating shops and homes. “Another foot of sea-level rise will be enough to bring salt water into our fresh water supplies and our sewage system”, warns scientist and South Miami mayor Philip Stoddard. If that happens,
“You won’t be able to flush away your sewage and taps will no longer provide homes with fresh water.. You will no longer be able to get flood insurance for your home. Land and property values will plummet and people will start to leave. Places like South Miami may no longer be able to raise enough taxes to run our neighbourhoods. Where will we find the money to fund.. fire services to tackle house fires? Will there even be enough water pressure for their fire hoses? It takes us into all sorts of.. scenarios. And that is only with a one-foot sea-level rise.”
Flooding in Miami Beach
Instead of buying time, every aerosol mission is reducing the time we have left to act. And by obscuring the true nature of our climate changes under veils of artificial clouds and 40 °F snow, the geoengineers are making it much harder to respond.
Every day the aerosol tankers fly, politicians beholden to Big Oil can delay meaningful action, while making Abrupt Climate Shift and a Canfield ocean more likely. “No reputable scientist I know thinks placing tiny reflecting particles in the stratosphere is a good idea”, says Philip Duffy, president and executive director of the Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change. And no one’s even discussing the quantum effects from aerosol technologies.
Geoengineering is used the same way chemo/radiation is used for cancer. Instead of addressing and healing the immune system they bombard it with more poison focusing on the symptom instead of the origin of the disease. Eventually one dies from the overload of toxins in the body instead of the cancer itself.
Full Stop
So I modestly suggest: Indict the geoengineers for reckless planetary endangerment, and ground the aerosol tankers now. How?
Use existing state/provincial, national and international air pollution and air traffic laws and regulations to apply for legal injunctions to stop geoengineering experiments over cities and entire regions “if and when any such attempts are made.” Then, using the evidence needed to obtain those writs, launch class action lawsuits naming anyone responsible who can be identified by name, title/rank for trust betrayed and damage done. Criminal charges must ultimately follow.
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About the author:
William Thomas is an award-winning investigative reporter with over four decades’ experience. His feature writing and photography have appeared in more than 50 publications in eight countries, with translations into French, Dutch and Japanese. A life-long environmental campaigner, his video documentary “Eco War” won the 1991 US Environmental Festival award for “Best Documentary Short”. Recipient of four Canadian feature-writing awards, William has been writing about wireless hazards since the publication of “Scorched Earth” in 1991. His recent book “Chemtrails Confirmed” records his ongoing geoengineering investigations.
For more information, visit William’s website: www.willthomasonline.net
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