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Climate hawk lawmakers told about geoengineering – but what did they learn?

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Sen. Becca White speaks at the Atheneum in St. Johnsbury

By Alison Despathy

A Danville couple tried – without apparent success – to educate carbon-reduction conscious lawmakers on the threat geo-engineering poses to the global climate. 

Dawn and Peter Brittain of Danville attended a Vermont Climate Solutions Caucus summer tour event at the St. Johnsbury Atheneum, featuring Rep. Scott Campbell (D-St. Johnsbury), Sen. Becca White (D-Windsor) and a VPIRG staffer. 

The Brittains attended the gathering because they own a dog kennel and the increased costs of energy and fighting climate change are of concern for their local business. In the breakout group led by Senator White, Dawn explained that her house and business are currently set up on propane and if the Clean Heat Standard passes next session, the economic burden and possible conversions will create a financial struggle. She also voiced her concerns that with an all electric grid, the animals under her care would be in danger with a power outage.

Then the Brittains raised a climate change problem of their own: educating lawmakers about geoengineering, a little-known effort to influence climate (including cooling the earth) via technology.

For years Dawn and her husband Peter have been paying close attention to the history and practice of weather modification including cloud seeding and solar radiation management experimentation. Both raised questions about the impacts this has on worldwide weather and climate patterns, including here in Vermont, especially with the recent devastation due to flooding.

On this same note, in the breakout group led by Representative Scott Campbell, Mary Hauser of Newark came well prepared and was determined to ensure the conversation included geoengineering and weather modification as causes of human induced climate change. Mary shared information folders full of history, research and model legislation, all intended to educate about this high risk reality and the need for laws to prevent this experimentation.

Based on their reactions and questions, neither Campbell or White appeared aware of this practice and its controversial use and potential devastation. Hauser and the Brittains believe it is a high priority that legislators educate themselves on this subject given their concern about the climate and recent weather events occurring in Vermont.

Over the past few years, there has been an exponential increase in awareness about weather modification technology. Some scientists have called for a regulatory review and many others are demanding a complete moratorium in order to attempt to understand impacts, the ethical dilemma of this technology, and the effects of hazardous material utilized in these practices.

Despite many unknowns, geoengineering has been moving forward. As reported by MIT Technology Review,

“Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts. 

Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets, appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell “cooling credits,” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads.”

This unauthorized experiment by the company Make Sunsets resulted in the country of Mexico placing an outright ban on solar geoengineering. The Center for International Environmental Law praised Mexico’s decision, stating,

“The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) applauds the Mexican government’s announcement that it will not permit solar geoengineering experiments and deployment on its national territory. The announcement follows a private, US-based company’s (Make Sunsets) recent unauthorized experimental geoengineering flights in Mexico. CIEL calls on all governments to take steps to ban solar geoengineering outdoor experiments, technology development and deployment.

Ten states – Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, South Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio – have introduced legislation to ban weather modification practices and prohibit the use of toxic compounds on the people and environment. In 2017, Rhode Island was the first state to introduce legislation to ban geoengineering and in April, 2024, Tennessee passed the first state law SB 2691, Public Chapter NO. 709, to ban geoengineering and its hazardous pollution.

Tennessee law states, “The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited. This act takes effect July 1, 2024, the public welfare requiring it.”

Mary Hauser has been taking pictures of the skies around her house for years which were also included in her information folders. Representative Campbell’s breakout group expressed deep concerns about geoengineering and its impacts on weather and the health of all life exposed to the often toxic compounds used with this technology. 

The majority of their conversation focused on this issue as many seek to understand the flooding events, how this controversial practice has been allowed to occur and what can be done to protect the health of Vermont’s environment and Vermonters.

Key components of Mary Hauser’s weather modification info packets consisted of:

  • A Popular Science article from March 20, 2018 entitled, With Operation Popeye, the US Government Made Weather an Instrument of War– as geo-engineering projects soar, the declassified project is newly relevant, which discusses both the history of weather modification used during the Vietnam War and its technological evolution and risks.
  • An article from Organic Consumers Association entitled, Blocking the Sun is not a Climate Solution which discusses the scientific communities’ concerns and demands for a moratorium on this technology and its high risk impacts, public and private funding investments for geoengineering, private corporations ongoing experimentation with this technology, their drive to create an offset market for trading ‘cooling credits’, and the aerosolized toxins used in solar engineering including coal fly ash, sulfuric acid, carbonyl sulfide, black carbon, aluminum, and barium titanate.
  • Weston A Price Foundation articles on Climate Change history, political influence and earth’s natural climate cycles Part 1 and Part 2.

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  1. As a citizen of Vermont I have also watched the cloud seeding ,and have witnessed the changes in weather affecting vegetation ,water and air in the state of Vermont .Any governmental Vermont representative that says they have not heard of this or witnessed it first hand in Vermont is lying ,asleep or inept . We need this prohibited in our airspace NOW .

  2. will cloud seeding bring you five inches of rain to a certain area/// one would think vermont is a victim of weather warfare

  3. Bravo to the Brittains! Of course, our “lawmakers” feign no knowledge of the subject. So either a) they have their heads in the sand, or b) they’re complete intellectual lightweights. Chemtrails are not hard to identify. Look up. If you see “contrails” that look like soap-on-a-rope, make X’es in the sky, and that don’t dissipate…. it’s probably a chemtrail.

    I applaud Tennessee and all the other states that have passed or are trying to pass legislation to stop this practice. I’m old enough to remember what blue sky was like. I’m also old enough to remember that in the past our climate was, in general, colder in the winter and warmer in the summer than it is now. The dreaded “closed upper-level low” that’s now seemingly parked over the Great Lakes region year-round and that takes a week to move didn’t exist until the past 20 years or so.

    However, where are the teeth in any of these pieces of legislation? How can they be enforced? Well…. they can’t as things stand now. So what’s a state to do?

    Well, if I were governor… At the first confirmed report of a chemtrail in the process of being sprayed over my state, I’d send up the Air National Guard with orders to a) identify the plane and relay that information, and b) communicate to them that they need to stop, and if they don’t do so, they will be forced to land. Should they not do so, I would authorize the ANG to follow them until they do land. One way or another, the information has to come out.

    Harsh? Sure. But sometimes people have to be led to the precipice to see the truth.

  4. Thank you guys. They’ll keep spraying until all the “climate denyers” take the knee to the globalist NWO unless we expose them first. Amazing to me most consider this a tin hat conspiracy. Look up!

  5. Please, Everyone should call their representatives and senators to “tell them to stop experimenting with our lives and Vermont weather making schemes that are dangerous and draw up a bill that bans geoengineering, cloud seeding and chemtrails in our airspace !! Then pass it!!!! And governor here’s your proof that geoengineering does exist and why haven’t you done something to stop it!!!!

  6. I wonder if it ever occurs to the climate activists or leadership that whatever is sprayed into the atmosphere rains down on them too. It does impact their health, food and water resources – they are not immune, compensated, but not immune. While they’re advocating to eliminate fossil fuels and tax us for simply existing, fossil fuels are utilized to pollute the climate with aluminum byproducts and other undisclosed stuff. Depopulation…the word is uttered in many speeches and symposiums….do the activitists think they are not going to be a part of that number on the ledger? The website Deagel.com estimates the US population to be roughly 200,000,000 less in the short-term. How do they come up with that figure?

  7. Once if you mentioned “Chemtrails”, or even noticed them, you were labeled a tin foil hat whacko but if labeled “Geo-Engineering” we’re fighting “climate change”? The DOD has been spraying EVERYTHING since the 1950’s, the skies, the subways, Vietnam, and God knows what & where. Other branches use other methods, like the Haarp/Elf program in the arctic. How do we know these programs haven’t CAUSED the “wild weather”? But then again, Vermont flooded BAD in 1927 (when Lindbergh flew solo to Paris) and there were still blown-down trees in my folk’s forest from the Hurricane of 1938. Other things pose much greater dangers like the New Madrid Fault & the Yellowstone Caldera, where an old & regular geyser just blew up & sent tourists running for their lives, and an EMP Burst, from the sun or a renegade nuke, could send the USA back to 1848 unless we harden our grid.

  8. Just remember that the upper level air flows predominantly from west to east so stopping the seeding of the atmosphere over Vermont won’t help Vermont.

  9. You shall have no other gods before me, this works for trans surgeries as well as this

  10. Yes, but they can parrot all the spoon fed BS propaganda that has/is being fed to them by those who will profit financially or inherit land baron power over the peasants.
    I’m reminded of a scripture:
    Zechariah 7:11
    But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.

    Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Wilful-Ignorance

  11. I have seen the Chem Trails cover the skies of VT completely and not dissipating unlike Contrails. A lot off political no nothings in Montpelier, wring out their tears from their crying towels about climate change and are falsity concerned, really don’t know about it except tax people thinking that’s a solution. Noted VT is NOT one of the 10 states banning the geoengineering. I don’t think they know how to spell the word and too lazy to look it up. So Montpelier dish out money (and tax for more) to assist flooded towns. There;s no more 100 year floods, It’s yearly. Obvious atmosphere modification and the Chem Trails lead to the warming, like a greenhouse. Two fold jeopardy. Liberal politicians are in-box-thinkers, confined.

  12. I’m currently reading the book Chemtrails Exposed A New Manhattan Project by Peter R. Kirby…. it’s 594 pages of history and detailed information with references after each chapter.
    I highly recommend reading this well researched book.
    I’ve written the Governor and others many times, and, of course, I’ve never gotten a response. But I keep writing….I want to be a major pain in their behinds!!