For the past week or so, Ive been tweeting back and forth with Stanford atmospheric scientist, Ken Caldeira. In this exchange with me, he has repeatedly insisted that the man-made clouds Ive tweeted about are ordinary contrails, and asked me why I think theyre anything other than that. Imagine my surprise to discover that he is featured in the movie What in the World Are They Spraying, saying, So what would we do if in the year 2040 or 2060, theres a severe climate crisis, say widespread famines, or Greenland sliding suddenly into the ocean--that the only plausible way in which we could start cooling the earth this century, is to directly intervene in the climate system, say by putting particles in the stratosphere. You know, maybe Im putting a particle into the atmosphere because Im trying to make money, or maybe Im putting a particle into the atmosphere because Im engaging in scientific research and trying to understand cloud physics, or maybe Im putting this particle into the atmosphere because Im trying to make it rain locally or to seed a cloud and get more snow on our ski slopes. And this obviously raises all kinds of questions, its usually risky, and it will likely negatively impact some people, but we might find ourselves in a situation where those risks seem worth taking. https://youtube/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA I find it interesting that he goes to such lengths to deny that theres anything strange about the persistent contrails that so often cover our skies, doing radio interviews about the issue, tweeting about it, etc., while he is one of the foremost geoengineers espousing theories and technologies for using planes to spray nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Smells fishy to me.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:49:20 +0000
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