Final post here. I'm going down a rabbit hole chasing the physics and chemistry of the various particles and methods they're trying to modify the weather in various ways. It's certainly interesting from a scientific point of view, and a nice test to see if I can remember some of my undergraduate work.
These people are talking huge money for these projects, very large scales. They're testing on small scales of course because novelty demands caution. They're afraid of causing a disaster (and rightfully so). I just wish they don't succeed. So much of the temperature increase they're trying to correct for is an artifact of the urban heat island effect. They take thermometer data from sites in urban environments, sited in concrete jungles, surrounded by burning fossils fuels, HVAC systems, and vehicle exhaust and ignore all of those biases. They have stripped away about half of the weather stations now, mostly from rural areas that actually provide good quality, reliable long-term data and homogenized it with the urban data that's running hot because it reflects the totality of human activity in cities. They then craft those red-hot maps and hockey stick trend lines that terrify everyone who doesn't know enough or care enough to dig in and see how they managed the scam. If it were a student's work, I'd chalk it up to inexperience. They don't necessarily think to go back to the fundamentals and think about siting and confounding factors like that new parking lot or the A/C unit exhausting right onto the instrument box that was installed 10 years ago or the effects of that new airport's service lines and those constantly overflying jets. You have to have some years under your belt to really appreciate that sort of detail. But these are the experienced professors with the big names pushing this stuff. Sure, the students are the lead authors, but the corresponding authors are their supervising professors with hundreds of papers to their names....
We're wasting billions of dollars on efforts that are totally unnecessary because we're trying to correct an effect that is only there on paper because of fraud.
Yes, I’ve heard that they’ve been taking temperatures from the tarmacs of airports, to use that is fear porn on the weather channel across the nation. Then they post everything and red, to scare people. It’s a big psyop.
Final post here. I'm going down a rabbit hole chasing the physics and chemistry of the various particles and methods they're trying to modify the weather in various ways. It's certainly interesting from a scientific point of view, and a nice test to see if I can remember some of my undergraduate work.
These people are talking huge money for these projects, very large scales. They're testing on small scales of course because novelty demands caution. They're afraid of causing a disaster (and rightfully so). I just wish they don't succeed. So much of the temperature increase they're trying to correct for is an artifact of the urban heat island effect. They take thermometer data from sites in urban environments, sited in concrete jungles, surrounded by burning fossils fuels, HVAC systems, and vehicle exhaust and ignore all of those biases. They have stripped away about half of the weather stations now, mostly from rural areas that actually provide good quality, reliable long-term data and homogenized it with the urban data that's running hot because it reflects the totality of human activity in cities. They then craft those red-hot maps and hockey stick trend lines that terrify everyone who doesn't know enough or care enough to dig in and see how they managed the scam. If it were a student's work, I'd chalk it up to inexperience. They don't necessarily think to go back to the fundamentals and think about siting and confounding factors like that new parking lot or the A/C unit exhausting right onto the instrument box that was installed 10 years ago or the effects of that new airport's service lines and those constantly overflying jets. You have to have some years under your belt to really appreciate that sort of detail. But these are the experienced professors with the big names pushing this stuff. Sure, the students are the lead authors, but the corresponding authors are their supervising professors with hundreds of papers to their names....
We're wasting billions of dollars on efforts that are totally unnecessary because we're trying to correct an effect that is only there on paper because of fraud.
Yes, I’ve heard that they’ve been taking temperatures from the tarmacs of airports, to use that is fear porn on the weather channel across the nation. Then they post everything and red, to scare people. It’s a big psyop.