Professor Robock told the callers that any attempts to meddle with the weather on a large scale would be detectable.
However, he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual conference in San Jose, that the weather has been weaponised in the past.
During the Vietnam War, US scientists tried to increase rainfall to hamper the enemy’s progress by spraying particles into the clouds.
And the CIA seeded clouds over Cuba ‘to make it rain and ruin the sugar harvest’.
Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding
Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding
Asked how he felt when he got the call, the professor said: ‘Scared.
‘I’d learned of lots of other things the CIA had done that haven’t followed the rules and that wasn’t how I wanted my tax money spent.
‘I think this research has to be open and international, so there isn’t any question of using it for hostile purposes.’
To add to the intrigue, the CIA is believed to have helped fund a major report into geoengineering.
Published last week by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences, the report mentions the ‘US intelligence community’ in its list of sponsors, alongside organisations such as Nasa.
Professor Robock said the CIA had told one of his colleagues it wanted to fund the report, but apparently did not want this fact to be too obvious.
He said: ‘The CIA is a major funder of the National Academies report so that makes me really worried who is going to be in control.’
He added that the tension created by any large-scale meddling in the climate could escalate to such an extent that it would end in all-out war.
The professor said: ‘If one country wants to control the climate in one way, and another doesn’t want it or if they try to shoot down the planes...if there is no agreement it could result in terrible consequences.’
Terrible consequences as in manipulation of raw data for computer models to shape debate over a totally false narrative, that kind of terrible results?
Thus far, other than some experiments using cloud seeding in efforts to reduce hurricane's strength, they either met their match,(Mother Nature) or they're hush hush about it. Going to go out on a limb and say this guy's been smoking way to much MaryJane.
This guy is seeing a host of therapists I hope.
