GRACE detecting weather modification ?

GRACE detecting weather modification ?

by Sean Singh -
Number of replies: 1

The giant weather modification projects being undertaken by china, seem to be apparent in slides 14 and 15 of Helena’s presentation. There are conspicuously strait lines leading from northern India, across the Tibetan plateau, which is not farmland or Forrest, but vast plains. Not something that would actually show carbon or water changes, because there is so little to change. The straightness of the lines across non-agricultural and non-forested areas, suggested to me the path which the sodium iodide launchers are placed, which then cause much higher than average rainfall. Given that this can be seen from space, would suggest a feat of engineering on the scale of the great wall. This is also how there is such a large increase in water just in the areas of china’s agricultural zones, given how mountainous the area in those zones are There is no reason for natural variability causing that kind of track. Which seemingly takes a 90degree turn into Russia, where their agricultural areas are currently expanding into. But any time you see strait lines or right angles, the cause is almost always humans. Nature simply does not behave in those ways. Also explains why there is such a large increase in rainfall in that small area, which does not occur anywhere else on the planet except Mexico which has been hit by one natural disaster after another from extreme weather. I do wonder those, would the jet stream carry excess sodium iodide horizontally across the globe ? For the elevation of china, the next stop would be ... japan and Mexico. Interestingly both places experiencing much higher than average extreme weather events. But I guess with Geo-engineering on this scale, it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Though many have been pining their hopes for averting climate change cheaply with

aerosols. I suppose if a few million poor people having their environment destabilized is a small price to pay for the future of farming.


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Re: GRACE detecting weather modification ?

by Helena Gerdener -
Its a model that we make realistically by assimilating observations into it. This slide contains an arbitrary month just to show the difference in spatial resolution and that both WGHM and GRACE are complementary. Please also note that "water in the atmosphere", i.e. predominantly water vapor, is already removed from GRACE data in the processing to focus on land hydrology applications, so it is not contained in these maps.