Response
to Diana Bronson’s Reply from Rosalie Bertell (in red)
12th
October 2010
Dear friends,
Thank you for your open letter to the HOME campaign and for your endorsement of its goals. And thank you for the information you have forwarded for review.
We agree that it is an entrenched practice for governments, motivated by self-interest, to try to alter the weather, and that there is increasing discussion about how the climate as a whole could be manipulated. And we know that past actions by governments have unintentionally altered weather patterns.
It is
clear that many government actions to change weather have been deliberate. I
would refer you especially to those during the Vietnam War. The U.S.
deliberately tried to destroy the ozone layer over Vietnam so as to destroy the
crops. They also tried to use lightning in Project Skyfire and the monsoons in
Project Storm Fury. Please see THE COOLING
By
Lowell Ponte.
However, as we see it, our role -- and the goal of the H.O.M.E. campaign -- is to bring public awareness to -- and to stop -- the plans of a small group of countries to get on with planetary geoengineering experiments in the absence of any international debate. This discussion must not be confined to a small group of scientific "experts" from a small group of (high-emissions) countries.
Even
the fact of Dr. Heller proposing geoengineering should have clued you to the
fact that the military was already very advanced in this area. I would also add
that it is important to note that carbon dioxide cannot possibly be causing all
of the effects being attributed to climate change in the press. For example the
Earth wobble has increased significantly, and this is well known to enhance the
severity of storms.
Many geoengineering experiments have already taken place (for example, in ocean fertilization and biochar, as well as in areas of weather modification). This is a fact and is denied by no one. The geoengineering technologies that bear some relation to what are sometimes referred to as "chemtrails" are, to the best of our knowledge, the following:
1. Cloud seeding to provoke rain or change precipitation patterns, usually involving the spraying of silver iodide or dry ice from aircraft: This technology has been practiced in dozens of countries over decades with unclear results and varying scientific grounding1.
Cloud
seeding for rain does not use aluminum oxides and barium oxides as have been
found in chemtrails.
2. Cloud
seeding for military purposes: The most well-known examples are Operation Popeye
used in an attempt to prolong the monsoon during the Vietnam war, as well as the
US government's Project Storm Fury (1962-1983) intended to disrupt hurricanes.
Military
activities in general are designed to detect instabilities in weather and then
enhance them. However, there are also experiments which use Tesla technology
which draw energy from the earth’s fluid core, causing turbulence of the core
and weakening of the electromagnetic force which protects the planet.
3. Chemical spraying of herbicides or other chemical from airplanes: The best known example was Agent Orange, used by the United States during the Vietnam war, with devastating effects on hundreds of thousands of people, including civilians and military personnel as well as the children of those exposed to the high concentrations of toxins, primarily dioxin. It is of course possible that the military is looking at such options as part of its counter-insurgency or other plans and while we know DARPA, for instance, has held meetings on geoengineering, we have not had the opportunity to review precise information on such activities.
I
believe that chemtrails are in part exercises in preparation for future such
projects. However, current chemtrails are known to involve heavy use of aluminum
and barium which are toxic to humans.
4. Cloud whitening: The most commonly discussed cloud whitening geoengineering technology involves spraying salt water into lower-level clouds to increase their condensation nuclei, expanding their coverage and creating whiter surfaces that will reflect sunlight back to outer space. This is a form of "solar radiation management" and there is a burgeoning scientific literature on the technique. To the best of our knowledge, no scientific experiments of this type of cloud whitening have taken place outside the lab because a delivery system has not yet been worked out. However, scientists working under the auspices of the Silver Lining Project in California are reportedly planning to execute an experiment in the next 2-3 years3.
The use
of aluminum in the chemtrails also reflects upward the sun’s rays. I
understand that this is how they got permission to use chemtrails all over
Europe. When I returned to Philadelphia after the Right Livelihood Conference in
Bonn, Germany, I saw an incredible number of chemtrails with X’s and Parallel
lines over Frankfurt. On the other hand, President Obama landed in Philadelphia
just before our plane arrived (causing chaos at the airport) and there was not a
sign of even one chemtrail. In the past I have seen many chemtrails on entering
Philadelphia air space.
5. Stratospheric aerosols - the injection of sulfates or aluminum particles into the upper layer of the atmosphere as a technique to cool the planet. Alarmingly, this technique has been receiving increased attention from policy makers. To the best of our knowledge, only two experiments have taken place using this technology
(both in Russia under the direction of Yuri Israel). You are aware of the scientific debate around this testing since you have included one of our press releases4 as an Appendix to the Belmont Group's Case Orange report. It has also been well documented that human-made clouds, principally due to air traffic, are having impacts on the climate.
On 19
September the US Navy sent up a rocket from its base in Virginia and placed an
aluminum oxide artificial cloud some 500 miles above the Earth over the east
coast. The highest natural cloud is about 50 miles. They caused a large cloud
shadow which brought early snow to the east coast. Even Baltimore had snow and
had to ask Canada to borrow some snow plows. The US Naval Reserve has removed
this project from their web site since I began to talk about it. Who knows what
else they may be doing? They do not need to go through an environmental
assessment since no one’s property is involved (since no one owns the sky)! I
am guessing at the numbers but I think I am close. According to the original
plan they intended to try this experiment also over Singapore.
5 We have not studied what chemicals are released by the different types of aircraft involved and therefore are not in a position to judge the quality of the Case Orange report you have asked us to review.
You
might want to begin with the US-Canada experiments out of Churchill, Manitoba,
where the Brant Rockets dropped large amounts of barium and aluminum at very
high altitudes. When I visited the HAARP facility in Gacona, Alaska I saw boxes
there from the then terminated programs in Churchill.
HAARP
is a very large Ionic Heater designed to make changes in the ionosphere. There
are a series of SuperDARNS located from Iceland and Greenland, across Northern
Canada and ending in Kodiak Alaska. These are on 24/7 alert measuring everything
which happens at the earth’s surface. All of the data is passed into the
Astronomy and Plasma Physics department at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore. They are obviously trying to document what happens when they
‘tweak’ the ionosphere.
On behalf of
Sincerely,
Diana Bronson Programme Manager
1 See
2 See UK
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, The Regulation of
Geoengineering, London, March 2010, chapter 2, available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/221/221.pdf
and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Retooling the Planet: Climate Chaos
in a Geoengineering Age, A Report Prepared by
3 See
4
5 Rex Dalton, "How aircraft emissions contribute to global warming," Nature news, 21 December
2009, available at http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091221/full/news.2009.1157.html