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There are several methods of Climate Geoengineering being practiced/tested on a global basis. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the Solar Radiation Management (SRM), also known as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), summarized in the above photo. These particles, released into the stratosphere, are believed to be the chemtrails we see.
From education.cfr.org
Solar Radiation Management, A Primer
In response, solar radiation management looks to lower temperatures by reducing incoming radiation. That process can also occur naturally. The volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 released millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Those particles acted like tiny mirrors that reflected solar radiation and contributed to global temperatures temporarily decreasing by 0.9°F the following year.
Solar radiation management looks to artificially replicate that natural process of reducing solar radiation absorbed by the earth. It can take several forms, including the following examples:
Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering—Similar to volcanoes, this technology would seed the atmosphere with sulfate aerosols released from airplanes or balloons. Such seeding would reflect some of the sun’s planet-warming radiation.
Marine cloud brightening—Already, clouds and the atmosphere reflect about one-third of radiation back toward the sun, and they also absorb another 20 percent. Marine cloud brightening involves spraying salt water into clouds to increase their reflectivity.
Space mirrors—Perhaps the most dramatic approach would involve placing massive mirrors—potentially the size of Brazil—into orbit to reflect solar radiation before it even reaches the planet.
Photos: Keith County
Try researching this topic and you will find mostly gaslighting and obfuscation. You will also find the name “Bill Gates” everywhere.
Bill Gates funding geoengineering labs at Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Bill Gates funding genetically modified crops to be resistant to aluminum toxicity.
Bill Gates buying up farmland to do experiments with GMO crops.
Bill Gates obsessing about population control in Africa at the World Economic Forum.
Bill Gates and George Soros funding geoengineering in Africa against the wishes of those nations.
This Op Ed is written by Chukwumerije Okereke
Dr. Okereke is director of the Center for Climate Change and Development at Alex Ekwueme Federal University in Nigeria.
As a climate expert, I consider these environmental manipulation techniques extremely risky. And as an African climate expert, I strongly object to the idea that Africa should be turned into a testing ground for their use. Even if solar geoengineering can help deflect heat and improve weather conditions on the ground — a prospect that is unproven on any relevant scale — it’s not a long-term solution to climate change. It sends a message to the world that we can carry on over-consuming and polluting because we will be able to engineer our way out of the problem.
The solar engineering technology attracting the most attention would use balloons or aircraft to spray large quantities of aerosols — tiny particles of, for example, sulfur dioxide or engineered nanoparticles — into the stratosphere to dim the sunlight. It’s called solar radiation management and it’s highly speculative.Without using the whole earth as a laboratory, it’s impossible to know whether it would dim anything, let alone how it would affect ecosystems, people and the global climate.
Other proposed techniques include covering deserts with plastic; genetically engineering plants to have brighter, more reflective leaves; creating or making clouds whiter; and deploying millions of mirrors in space. The point of all of them is to counter warming by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet and reflecting it back to the stratosphere.
Africa is already suffering the effects of climate change, such as drought, floods and erratic weather. And while geoengineering advocates see these technologies as a solution to such problems, the technologies run the danger of upsetting local and regional weather patterns — intensifying drought or flooding, for example, or disrupting monsoon cycles. And the long-term impact on regional climate and seasons is still largely unknown. Millions, perhaps billions, of people’s livelihoods could be undermined.
These technologies would also theoretically need to be deployed essentially forever to keep warming at bay. Stopping would unleash the suppressed warming of the carbon dioxide still accumulating in the atmosphere in a temperature spike known as “termination shock.” One study found that the temperature change after ending solar radiation management could be up to four times as large as what’s being caused by climate change itself.
Funding does not seem to be a problem for geoengineering researchers, however, particularly those in the United States. The Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program has been expanding rapidly, supported by Bill Gates and philanthropists from Silicon Valley, while George Soros recently announced his intention to back solar geoengineering projects in the Arctic. The University of Chicago has also this month announced the creation of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative to partner with national labs to explore these and other strategies.
But should we even be studying geoengineering at all? More than 400 senior climate scientists and scholars from around the world have called for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering. If it goes before the United Nations, it could result in a ban on real-world research on this technology.
Regardless, advocates have tried to entice African governments by offering to fund research projects, claiming that more research will shed more light on the dangers and benefits of the technology. One such organization, the Degrees Initiative, says its mission is to put “developing countries at the center” of the discussion around solar radiation management. But this just appears to be a way of trying to make Africa a test case for an unproven technology. Indeed more studies into this hypothetical solution look like steps toward development and a slippery slope to eventual deployment.
A striking example of rogue solar geoengineering is the case of the American start-up Make Sunsets, which recently launched balloons from Mexico to inject sulfur into the atmosphere with the claim this would offset carbon emissions. Data on the balloons’ final location, what happened with the released particles and any impact on warming were never made public.
The Mexican government was unaware of the exercise until after the fact, at which point officials swiftly announced a ban on solar geoengineering activities. The decision to test the technology without permission or notice was reckless, and the decision to do it in Latin America echoed some of the worst aspects of colonialism.
African nations should strongly resist letting their territories be used for experimental exercises like this. And they must join efforts to strengthen the de facto moratorium (under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity) on the development and deployment of these technologies. The technologies are potentially dangerous, and a major distraction from the real change that we all know wealthier nations need to make if we have a hope of outrunning climate devastation.
From “Friends of the Earth” foe.org
The U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has established a moratorium on geoengineering for most of the world, making exceptions only for small-scale scientific research “conducted in a controlled setting.” The U.S. is one of the only countries that has not ratified the CBD, and no federal law explicitly prohibits or regulates the deployment of solar geoengineering technologies, making the U.S. one of the most exposed countries in the world for private actors to attempt solar geoengineering.
From ciel.org:
Since 1971, at least 598 outdoor geoengineering experiment trials have been proposed, with over 90 percent proposed between 2004 and 2023 and more than half between 2019 and 2023 (see Figure 1). Four times more geoengineering field experiments were proposed between 2019 and 2023 compared to the previous five-year period.
Hopefully we have moved on from “It’s not happening” to “It may be happening but it’s a good thing.” Is it a good thing? Playing God with the Earth’s atmosphere, what could possibly go wrong?
It took an assist from ChatGPT to find out what exactly they are spraying on us, as none of the explanatory articles wanted to share that detail.
Sulfur Dioxide is the most widely used chemical according to that source. It is the substance that closely mirrors a large volcanic eruption. SO₂ reacts in the stratosphere to form sulfate aerosols, which scatter sunlight. It has the alarming side effects of depleting the ozone layer and causing acid rain. It renders unpredictable results.
Haven’t we been told since Al Gore was a tot that acid rain and ozone depletion is the reason we must embrace climate Communism? Aren’t these the same people forcing us to rely on solar power while they are busy blocking the sun? Make this make sense!
Look at the number 3 on the list above: Aluminum Oxide. Newer climate science articles are breathless about the possibility of aluminum as a more reflective and longer-lasting aerosol. Too bad it is also an ozone destroyer and toxic to soil. But Bill Gates, never one to miss out on monetizing his manmade disasters, is doing the GMO studies to create aluminum resistant plants. Too bad it is humans and animals that will be eating those plants. Studies are showing that inhaled or ingested aluminum can reside in human cells forever, and not in a good way. Link
There are Many Reasons to be Concerned
New research published in Nature Climate Change in late 2024 shows that sulfur-based geoengineering could devastate the ozone layer far more severely than previously thought. Scientists from the University of Cambridge found that stratospheric aerosol injection could thin ozone concentrations by up to 15% over populated areas, dramatically increasing cancer rates and ecosystem damage.
Let’s review the potential downside:
Termination Shock. The very real possibility that tinkering with the ozone could create a doomsday scenario where the world would overheat the minute the aerosol deployments stop. The African climate scientist mentions this in his quote above.
Famine. Acid rain +/- aluminum toxicity leading to crop failure worldwide. We haven’t even talked about the barium or titanium.
Respiratory and other Chronic Diseases. The nano particles are easily inhaled and can cause cellular damage with unpredictable results.
Destruction of Ecosystems/Biodiversity. (from ciel.org).
Geoengineering technologies could cause devastating harms to biodiversity, including potentially permanent impacts on food webs, disrupting ecosystem oxygen provision, degrading natural nutrient cycling, precipitation changes, uneven cooling, and weakening the ozone layer. The degradation of Earth subsystems will likely cause an extreme loss of ecosystem functions.
Destruction of Oceanic Ecosytems is already happening. (Link)
Australia’s first large-scale marine cloud brightening trial, launched in 2024, produced alarming unintended consequences that have shaken scientific confidence. The project, designed to brighten clouds over the Great Barrier Reef, instead created unpredictable weather patterns that damaged coral ecosystems in unexpected ways. Salt particles sprayed into the atmosphere created localized storms that increased water turbidity, blocking sunlight that corals desperately needed for photosynthesis. The experiment also interfered with natural cloud formation patterns, causing drought conditions in nearby agricultural regions. Marine biologists documented a 12% decline in coral health in treated areas compared to control zones, directly contradicting the project’s conservation goals. The Australian government suspended the program after just six months, citing “unforeseen ecological risks.” This failure has become a cautionary tale about the complexity of marine ecosystems and the dangers of technological solutions to environmental problems.
Unpredictable Weather Disasters
Weaponization. Of course, it’s already happening. (Link)
Will powerful countries attempt to ensure that the ill effects of geoengineering fall overseas? Anticipating the difficulty of a global decision on geoengineering governance, geoengineers have already said they do not need the consent of every country that will be affected.
Concern about unequal impacts raises a larger question: what’s to stop those who control geoengineering schemes from using them as a means of geopolitical manipulation and control–in other words, climate warfare? This is not without precedent: The United States has used cloud seeding as a weapon. Its government tried to extend the monsoon season in North Vietnam from 1967-72, and attempted to dry up Cuba’s sugar crop in 1969. What would stop this from happening again, on a much larger scale?
What Are We Seeing in Our Nebraska Skies? Are they Chemtrails?
Pilots Testify Bill Gates Is Carpet Bombing Cities with Chemtrails
The “experts” say no. Some pilots say yes.
The one thing we can say for certain about Chemtrails in Nebraska is we see them. We have wondered for years about them. They appear over rural farms, far from any major airport, and linger high in the sky.
They start as the contrails we remember growing up, but they often form patterns.
Photo above: Keith County
Then they fan out to ribbons, then sheets of gray white film covering the blue sky.
Photos below: Dawson County
The effect if you are outdoors is eerie. It feels like the sun is behind a cloud even when there are no discreet clouds. It can turn the sky slightly dim like a solar eclipse.
Photo: Dawson County
The other thing we know for certain is that gravity is a given. Nebraska is a state largely of verdant farmland, which is irrigated with the same ground water we drink from our wells, and use to water our livestock.
Whatever is sprayed into the sky will land in our water, our soil, and our crops. Livestock and humans will breathe in the particles, and ingest the crops grown from that soil and water. It seems we are being poisoned. It feels intentional.
Chemtrails are a hot topic suddenly. Tennessee and Florida banned them. Among other states, Iowa is looking to do the same. Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a House bill to ban chemtrails. It is possible State bans may be less effective due to airspace laws. The stratospheric nature of SAI may require a federal law. However, there have been some reports of Florida arrests on alternative media, so having the state law must be helpful to some extent. It is clear this is new territory for everyone— except the perpetrators.
How do you enforce a ban on something no one will admit to doing? How do you gather evidence at 30,000 feet?
Who is paying for these diabolical experiments? No doubt we are. May God have mercy.
Photos: Saunders County above, Kearney County below
Readers, log your own chemtrails photos on X. Nebraskans please use the hashtag #nebraskachemtrails. Document the date and the county. Here is an example: https://x.com/ForwardNebraska/status/1943704818792443975
Thank you for explaining what had been, for me, a mysterious conspiracy theory. You do good work.