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Remember when Bobby Kennedy seemed to suggest "chemtrails" were real when he responded to an X post in August, and promised to "stop this crime"? And that time he interviewed Dane Wigington in 2023 to find out what research existed to back up "chemtrails"?
Remember the beating Kennedy took in the mainstream media (here, here, here) for promoting a so-called conspiracy theory?
We are going to stop this crime.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 26, 2024
Well, the "chemtrail" crowd has been saying "told ya so" ever since learning Connecticut State Senator Saud Anwar sponsored Proposed Bill 417, An Act Concerning Permit Requirements for Cloud Seeding Activities in the State.
The bill proposes the general statutes be amended to require the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to develop a permit for undertaking any weather modification techniques employed in the state, and that includes cloud seeding.
Plus, an environmental impact assessment will be required to evaluate risks and ensure that public safety, health, and the environment are protected from any unreasonably risky weather modification activities.
Weather modification includes "any activity performed with the intention of producing artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere" according to NOAA.
Currently, NOAA states that cloud seeding is the only 'common' weather modification activity practiced in the U.S., common being the operative word.
It's usually done by private companies in west mountain basins during winter to help build up snowpack, or in the desert southwest to fill water reservoirs during summer. Sometimes airlines use a type of seeding to disperse fog called "glaciogenic seeding."
Why cloud seeing hasn't been used to help dampen the California wildfires is a different issue.
It's also worth mentioning that back in 2022, the Biden Administration's Consolidated Appropriations Act directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with support from NOAA, to provide a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions” that could help address "climate change."
The resulting July 2023 research document focused on atmospheric-based approaches to solar radiation modification (SRM), specifically stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). The report also mentions cirrus cloud thinning (CCT).
SAI was originally proposed in 1977 as a method to allegedly "tackle the impacts of global warming" by reflecting some of the sun's rays away from Earth. The approach "aims to mimic the planet cooling effects of volcanic eruptions by injecting sulfur dioxide (SO2) directly into the stratosphere where it forms sunlight-reflecting sulfate aerosols."
MCB involves the "injection of salt spray into shallow marine clouds to brighten them, increasing their reflection of sunlight and reducing the amount of heat absorbed by the water below."
NOAA is even offering a 2025 grant for "Integrating Observations and Modeling in Support of Process Understanding Relevant to Solar Radiation Modification Research," indicating the government's continued interest in weather modification.
But rather than working to create a permit process for those wishing to engage in unproven and potentially risky weather modification techniques in Connecticut, reasonable people in the state wonder why not just ban weather engineering altogether like Tennessee did?
Toward that end, the folks at Zero Geoengineering have put together a letter you can automatically send to legislators to urge them to ban weather modification practices, and they also maintain a state-specific page for Connecticut with some interesting information.
