Tech and the Weather: Storm Clouds Ahead?

Tech and the Weather: Storm Clouds Ahead?

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The weather in parts of the country and the world has been extreme lately, to put it mildly, and the sector – tech – that brought you such breakthroughs as emojis and planet-saving lab-grown meats, are turning their focus to the weather itself, although note to self re lab-grown meats, “The claim that the process reduced CO2 emissions over conventional livestock farming has been comprehensively demolished: one estimate is that it increases emissions by between four times and 25 times as much as reared meat. The animal, of course, can perform its own exercise by itself, for free, while the nutrients it requires are either free or cheap. It also enhances the land on which it grazes. Producing the product requires far more energy than leaving, say, a bovine in the field to produce the same all-natural result,” MSN reported. “The alternative proteins bubble has burst.”

So next up: the weather and this just in: “A growing number of Silicon Valley founders and investors are backing research into blocking the sun by spraying reflective particles high in the atmosphere or making clouds brighter. The goal is to quickly cool the planet,” Bloomberg reported…”Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet — known as solar radiation management (SRM) — could come with dangerous consequences such as shifting rainfall patterns and changing the prevalence of diseases like malaria, to say nothing of the potential geopolitical chaos. Those risks have scientists urging caution and governments slowly working to build policies. But the tech world has rarely shied away from testing a new product and figuring out the bugs later, and prominent philanthropists are dedicating more money than ever to these radical ideas.”

“Flubbed climate test won’t deter rich donors from altering the sky,” Politico chimed in. “They funded a failed experiment to block the sun. They plan to try again.”

At the forefront of this movement is Bill Gates, who was an early proponent of cloud-seeding/ geoengineering. The same Bill Gates who, when at the helm of MSFT in the early days, had no qualms about releasing new products before they had been properly tested, which often led to the dreaded blue screen of death.

Gates has been crisscrossing the skies with chemtrails for years, no matter that the long-term consequences are still unknown, and a climate-based blue screen of death is, well, not so good. Could those chemtrails/cloud seedings possibly have some effect on the current extreme weather? Old habits die hard, and while it might sound a bit farfetched, and speaking of releasing buggy products, “Judge Rules Bill Gates Must Face Vaccine-Injured in Netherlands Court,” CHD reported. “According to Dutch independent news outlet Zebra Inspiratie, the plaintiffs allege that Gates, through his representatives, deliberately misled them about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, despite knowing “that these injections were not safe and effective.”

And remember, we’re simply reporting.

In the name of climate safety, Gates is also heavily invested in lab-grown meats, btw.

A nod to the conspiracy theorists out there: the Bloomberg piece is quick to dismiss “the unfounded claims circulating on social media (including) the idea that the US government had effective control of the weather, spinning up storms to strike areas based on political affiliation (or a certain sector’s needs?). While that’s not true, there are people working in semi-secret on technology to tweak the weather, even if they’re nowhere close to controlling hurricanes.”

Hurricane Helene Shutters ‘Critical’ Quartz Mines That Power the World’s Electronics, Solar Panels and A.I. “The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is one of the only sources of high-purity quartz on Earth, but it has been left battered by the storm’s heavy rains,” said Smithsonian. And land is expected to go for pennies on the dollar. Cha-ching! If you’re curious, as we were, about when the last hurricane of this magnitude hit Spruce Pine, here you go: NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks – 150 years of tracking. The answer, btw, is never.

As for governmental weather manipulation being out of the realm of possibility, said Popsci, “With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of war.” Project Popeye was “a secret five-year-old cloud seeding operation meant to lengthen the monsoon season in Vietnam, destabilize the enemy, and allow the United States to win the war.” On “March 20, 1967, the “operational phase” of Popeye began.”

1967, Gracie??? The technology and weather manipulations might have improved just a bit in the intervening nearly sixty years, and “As geo-engineering projects soar, the declassified project is newly relevant,” the PopSci piece stated.

Remember the torrential downpours in Dubai? Bringing in the rain: “Has the UAE’s cloud-seeding program gone too far?” Wired asked.. “There are waterlogged streets, flooded malls, and questions over chemicals being pumped into the skies. So should we really be playing with the weather?”

Right or wrong, we do prefer to err on the side of research over spin, despite the fact that there is no doubt a faction that would label this unpopular science.

And you know tech. Once they get an idea – or a specific vertical – in their heads, it’s full steam ahead, no matter the consequences. And considering all the money currently being focused on the sector, just keep in mind that from what we’ve seen, when it rains, it pours. Onward and forward.

Onward and forward.

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