MikeG
Senior Member.
This article by Derrick Broze appeared yesterday in Activist Post:
Scientists Say Airplane Contrails May Be Accidentally Geoengineering The Climate
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12...-accidentally-geoengineering-the-climate.html
The author starts out fairly reasonably:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...g-accidental-geoengineering-180957561/?no-ist
Broze then moves to familiar territory by citing “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather by 2025,” Operation Popeye, and others.
More to the point, in the mishmash of comingling historical examples of weather modification with proposed geoengineering projects, I continually notice that chemtrail believers either do not understand or simply refuse to make a distinction between weather and climate.
There have been some recent studies on the effect of contrails on cloudiness:
C. Ryan, A. R. MacKenzie, S. Watkins, and R. Timmis, “World War II contrails: a case study of aviation-induced cloudiness,” International Journal of Climatology, 32 (2012): 1745-1753.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.2392/abstract
https://www.metabunk.org/new-penn-state-study-into-the-affect-of-contrails-on-local-weather.t6407/
None that I know have addressed the long-term impact of contrails on climate, although the idea of unintended consequences is interesting.
Scientists Say Airplane Contrails May Be Accidentally Geoengineering The Climate
Chuck Long is a researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory at the University of Colorado in Boulder. At the recent American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Long and his team released their paper, “Evidence of Clear-Sky Daylight Whitening: Are we already conducting geoengineering?” The analysis found that vapor from airplanes may be altering the climate through accidental geoengineering.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12...-accidentally-geoengineering-the-climate.html
The author starts out fairly reasonably:
The first part of the article is actually lifted from a Smithsonian Magazine story that came out last week:More research is needed before Long can conclusively show much of an effect contrails are having on the climate, or whether they are leading to cooling or warming. However, Long says this is another way humans are altering the climate and, he says, “you can see this with your own eyes.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...g-accidental-geoengineering-180957561/?no-ist
Broze then moves to familiar territory by citing “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather by 2025,” Operation Popeye, and others.
It is a pretty disingenuous “Just asking questions” approach.So are geoengineering programs already active? Perhaps what Chuck Long and his team are noticing is not that standard contrails are causing geoengineering, but that geoengineering programs are already live and changing the climate.
More to the point, in the mishmash of comingling historical examples of weather modification with proposed geoengineering projects, I continually notice that chemtrail believers either do not understand or simply refuse to make a distinction between weather and climate.
There have been some recent studies on the effect of contrails on cloudiness:
C. Ryan, A. R. MacKenzie, S. Watkins, and R. Timmis, “World War II contrails: a case study of aviation-induced cloudiness,” International Journal of Climatology, 32 (2012): 1745-1753.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.2392/abstract
https://www.metabunk.org/new-penn-state-study-into-the-affect-of-contrails-on-local-weather.t6407/
None that I know have addressed the long-term impact of contrails on climate, although the idea of unintended consequences is interesting.