Posted on 04/13/2024 3:50:16 PM PDT by Twotone
The USS Hornet may be a decommissioned aircraft carrier, yet it has nevertheless become the launch-site for a controversial new war in the skies.
The Marine Cloud Brightening Program's Coastal Atmospheric Aerosol Research and Engagement project, led by researchers from the University of Washington, took to the deck of the Hornet Tuesday to launch streams of particles into the sky above the San Francisco Bay. Their ultimate objective is apparently to block and reflect sunlight in hopes of limiting "global warming."
CAARE researchers behind the geoengineering scheme opted not to announce their experiment, reportedly citing concerns that there might be significant backlash.
After all, the American public — or at the very least, the residents of Alameda — might first want to hear from the hundreds of scientists who have called for a non-use agreement for solar radiation management and stated in an open letter that the "risks of solar geoengineering are poorly understood and can never be fully known. Impacts will vary across regions, and there are uncertainties about the effects on weather patterns, agriculture, and the provision of basic needs of food and water."
The experiment: Clouds bounce some of the sun's rays back into space. This supposedly helps cool temperatures locally.
The University of Washington's Department of Atmospheric Sciences conceded that fossil fuel emissions and other human activities have long generated aerosols in the atmosphere that mix in with low-altitude clouds, causing them to brighten and reflect more sunlight, having a cooling effect on the earth's climate.
"I think most people are aware that there's a greenhouse gas effect that warms climate," UW MCB program director Sarah Doherty told the Weather Channel. "But what most people aren't aware of is that the particles that we've also been producing and adding to the atmosphere offset some of that climate warming. So, the overall effect is one of climate warming, but it would be a lot more without that particulate pollution."
With climate alarmists concerned over supposed global temperature increases and the corresponding war on fossil fuels sure to rob the clouds of a contributing brightener, some scientists are keen to pump out aerosols of their own.
Robert Wood, the lead UW scientist running the cloud project, noted on his university blog that the team at the CAARE facility developed a "Cloud-Aerosol Research Instrument (CARI)." This device, which has multiple nozzles and resembles a snow maker, can apparently fire trillions of salt particles into the air.
The UW indicated that once emitted, such particles would only remain airborne in the atmosphere for a few days.
Wood told the San Francisco Chronicle simulations project that if 15% of Earth's marine clouds were artificially brightened, the globe might cool by approximately one degree.
According to the New York Times, CAARE researchers used their CARI device last week aboard the USS Hornet, firing particles and testing to make sure their cloud-brightening machine would function as desired outside a lab.
The Chronicle indicated that the next step of research will entail actually attempting to meddle with the clouds off the coast of California.
The concerns: "Every year that we have new records of climate change, and record temperatures, heat waves, it's driving the field to look at more alternatives," Wood told the Times. "Even ones that may have once been relatively extreme."
Contrary to Woods' intimation, many still regard marine cloud brightening to be an extreme and potentially fruitless initiative.
In addition to noting that MCB and other forms of solar radiation modification may ultimately accomplish little in the way of lowering global temperatures, the Congressional Research Service noted in a May 2023 report that some "modeling studies of [marine cloud brightening] have suggested it could alter precipitation patterns at global and regional levels."
A 2017 study published in Nature Communications indicated that aerosols released just in the northern hemisphere could possibly even lead to an increase in droughts, hurricanes, and storms elsewhere.
Late last month, a group of 31 top atmospheric scientists noted in a paper published in Science Advances that there is presently a "lack of a clear understanding of the relationship between aerosol and meteorological conditions and liquid water and cloud fraction adjustments and their timescales."
"Regional changes in temperature and rainfall could influence heat stress, water availability, crop productivity and the ability of communities to thrive," added the scientists who emphasized the need to evaluate the viability and risks of MCB.
The widespread concerns over the feasibility and fallout of such experiments has prompted the Biden administration to distance itself from the CAARE experiment, even though President Joe Biden signed Congress' Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, providing funding for a "scientific assessment of solar and other rapid climate interventions in the context of near-term climate risks and hazards," including aerosol injection.
The White House told the Times in a statement, "The U.S. government is not involved in the Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) experiment taking place in Alameda, CA, or anywhere else."
so they’re admitting the Sun controls the planet ?
“Scientists just test-fired a cloud device over American soil with the ultimate aim of blocking sunlight”
Great. No wonder my solar panels have TOTALLY SUCKED for the past month.
Utter folly. These people are fools.
Here in Western Washington we are having a rainier spring with few days of sunshine. My friends in Huntington Beach report the same - more rain and less sunshine.
All of us want more sunshine to dry out the mold from the rain which is causing sinus problems. Now we are going to get less sunshine.
Nothing against the Blaze, its not like they are alarmist or anything - why not read the stuff put out by the perps...I mean the Really Bright Guys Who Shold be in in Charge.....
Note, if the swhit hits the fan, they will blame it all on NOAA. Just a heads up
“inform models to support projections of the impacts of marine cloud brightening and to “off-ramps” for marine cloud brightening research, as recommended by scientists convened by NOAA”
UCK
Some scientists actually talk about the idea of setting off nuclear weapons to trigger a mild nuclear winter effect. If successful it would last for years or even decades. And there’s no going back once it’s done.
Idiots!
Caused cancer in lab rats
So chem trails are now acknowledged?
They won’t be satisfied until every living thing on the planet is dead.
How did this group of nuts get a EPA wavier/exemption?
What they are doing is called pollution. They need to stop!
Article 7 The Congress shall have the power to maintain the temperature by jailing MAGA supporters.
Concentration camps for conservatives, lowers sea level.
- W’Post
Cooling the globe means that winter will be colder. Humans, animals and plants will die.
Once the particles have been released there is no way to recall them.
There is immense stupidity in the world, and the stupid ones are in control.
We used to call it smog.
And to think, back in the 1970s during THE COMING ICE AGE SCARE they were planning to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spray it on the ice fields to increase absorption from the sun.
They must be testing it in Alaska too! It’s been COLD up here in Fairbanks. 32 for a high today. Lots of snow all around. Probably a foot or more in the woods around my house. Hasn’t been 50 yet.
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