Are they playing God with the weather?

Are the conspiracy theorists right..?

Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen.
And I don't know when,
But just saying it could even make it happen. Cloudbusting. Kate Bush

Have you looked up at the sky recently and wondered where the sun has gone? Where have the blue skies and the white fluffy clouds of the Orb fame vanished to? Some of the more conspiratorially minded wang on about chem-trails, pointing out that the criss-cross of sky lines cause the thin dusty clouds blocking out the sun. And to be fair, you only have to watch at how contrails from planes disappear into the atmosphere within minutes to see that the often ubiquitous hatching across the sky might have the more sinister characteristics of chem-trails. This week, however, what was previously sneered at as dark-web rabbit-hole lunacy has gone mainstream, with chem-trails even being discussed on This Morning between the usual fluff about the best corkscrews on Amazon and how to self-tan without marking the sheets.

This week, the normally sun drenched, desert-based shopping mall called Dubai looked like it had been pranked by a celebrity water soaking with its heaviest rainfall in 75 years. With almost gleeful reporting in the press it was hashtag absolute carnage.

The Evening Standard reported that as ‘Chaos at Dubai airport continued, scientists warned the record-breaking rainfall that brought the city-state to a standstill was likely to have been “supercharged” by climate change.’ Presumably these are different scientists to those involved in developing cloud seeding technology. Scientists are like football fans; they all have a different opinion depending upon where they are standing, who they support, who pays them and how oiled they might be.

While passengers stuck in the airport were pretending to be inconvenienced by surviving on a diet of duty free Toblerone and giant Skittles, climate experts were falling over themselves like a Black Friday scrum for discounted TVs to claim that rising temperatures caused by manmade climate change are causing extreme weather events around the world, such as the storms that struck the UAE and Oman this week. CNN claimed that ‘torrential rainfall events’ - making them sound like they include lanyards and a corporate goodie bag - ‘will become more frequent due to human-driven climate change.’ Of course they did.

However, a few voices began suggesting that over-enthusiastic cloud seeding may have caused the #absolutecarnage in Dubai. This rather sudden admittance of weather manipulation previously disregarded as a conspiracy theory caused a stampede of scientists to deny it. Professor John Marsham, at Leeds University, said speculation around cloud seeding is a ‘distraction from the real story here’. He added, with the tone of a school teacher hitting a lifetime quota of dimwit exposure, that ‘We know that man-made climate increases extreme rainfall - this is well understood.’ It’s also well understood John, that geo-engineering is a reality, including cloud seeding which was first conducted in 1946 by American chemist Vincent Schaefer.

If there’s any country with a desire that matches its resources for more rain then it’s the UAE. After all, if they can persuade premiership footballers to play empty stadiums in a league no one has heard of, then cloud bursting is a no-brainer. In fact, the UAE has been conducting cloud seeding operations since 2002 to address the area’s water security concerns.

Ahmed Habib, a meteorologist, told Bloomberg that the National Centre of Meteorology sent out seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to capitalise on convective cloud formations. However, in what might be seen as damage limitation exercise while Mr Habib eyed the nearest exit, a Esraa Alnaqbi claimed ‘climate change likely contributed to the storm.’

The BBC of course were scrambled to also swiftly claim that the rain was caused by climate change, while simultaneously admitting it’s too early to quantify if that’s actually the case. Never let future facts get in the way of narrative supporting, knee-jerk opinion, after all, the BBC mumbles manmade climate change in its sleep.

There’s considerable debate around cloud seeding disrupting natural weather patterns, although probably not during meetings at geo-engineering company Make Sunsets. Make Sunsets is a company linking arms with the UN armed with modelling that suggests ‘solar geoengineering could offset most climate change for most people most of the time.’ It’s strangely reminiscent of John Lydgate’s “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”

Not only do Make Sunsets have the sort of innocuous, cuddly company name that suggests they arrange children's parties yet in sci-fi movies spells disaster, but they’re also proud to declare: We create global cooling by launching reflective, biodegradable, high-altitude clouds. main side effect: more vivid sunsets;) One assumes that’s a wink and not reference to the eye patch of a spectral master-villain. It’s also a bit like saying we get picturesque giant mushroom clouds from nuclear bomb detonation.

Make Sunsets say that ‘Climate change is an undeniable reality. Its current impacts on the environment are extensive, ranging from rising sea levels to more frequent extreme weather events.’ NATO footage of no coastal encroachment has presumably eluded them, or that a land survey of Finland completed in early 2021 calculated that the south coast of Sweden was rising by at least 1mm a year. BBC disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring is presumably too busy making corrections to her own CV errors to monitor Make Sunsets. They continue in this vein with ‘These effects will only worsen over time if left unchecked, leading to devastating consequences for our planet and future generations.’ to which of course they have the answer. This involves the deployment of aerosols at attitudes of 20 kilometers or higher to ‘impact local weather and air quality, stratospheric sulfate aerosols are more stable and have global consequences.’ We can only pray that their attention to stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is better than their grammar.

SAI is a geoengineering technique designed to reduce global temperatures by introducing aerosols into the Earth's stratosphere to reflect sunlight. It results in a grey haze where there should be blue skies. Anyone recall voting for this? Most worrying they claim that ‘sulfate aerosols can remain in the stratosphere for up to a few years, continuously reflecting sunlight and providing a cooling effect.. to significantly reduce global temperatures.’ With the human race being equatorial and preferring warmth to cold what could possibly go wrong with reducing sunlight to planet earth? And ‘a few years’ makes it sound like an inconsequential city break.

Elsewhere, Ireland has had such continual rain over the past 6 months that cattle can’t be put out to pasture, and the grass is growing so rapidly as to not contain sufficient magnesium for lambs. The most cynical mind might conclude such reletlentless grey hazy skies and rainfall is purposeful, after all, with livestock production being blamed for climate change Greenpeace want meat consumption in the European Union to drop by 71% by 2030, and the WEF’s C40 Cities are intending that we cut meat consumption by two-thirds.

In the UK there are two companies contracted for spraying operations according to an interview with a pilot in The Exposé. 2Excel Aviation is the largest, and operates out of Doncaster, Lasham Airport just west of London, Newquay, Bournemouth and Prestwick. The other is RVL Aviation, based at East Midlands Airport, and operate Newquay, Southampton, Stansted, Teesside, Prestwick and Liverpool airports. They bought at least two Boeing 737s which are part of a group of aeroplanes that have been spotted spraying over Cornwall. It’s hard to accept these planes might have been destroying every potentially sunny day since Christmas. In the US Tennessee lawmakers have even passed a bill, that which sadly doesn’t cover the UK, to forbid the "intentional injection, release, or dispersion" of chemicals into the air.”

Most worrying of course is that unusual weather conditions due to geo-engineering might easily be chalked up to human-driven climate change by a complicit mainstream media in justification of collective Net Zero measures.

The speed with which organisations such as BBC claimed the Dubai flooding was definitely not cloud seeding rang somewhat reminiscent of Detective Frank Drebin in Naked Gun ushering people past an exploding fireworks factory behind him saying ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here.’ In the comic 2000AD the Justice dept in Mega-City One had weather control, that could provide localised thunderstorms, etc, to prevent civil uprisings; they knew that mastery over the weather gives you faculty over the people. Inclemency is power to the State. Yet with the Dubai rainstorms, it seems that perhaps the concept of chem-trails has slipped from the hands of ‘conspiracy theorists’ and into the public domain.