Geoengineering Programs and Weather Modification Experiments

This article lists active geoengineering programs, proposals, experiments, field trials, and weather modification programs worldwide! If I missed a program, project, or experiment, let me know.

Geoengineering Programs and Weather Modification Experiments WORLDWIDE!

Current Geoengineering Programs

If you don't know what Geoengineering is, the following info-graphics depict proposed geoengineering techniques which could be used to slow global warming.

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For a detailed analysis, check out our spreadsheet of Reported Weather Modification Activities in the USA (2004-2012) with Sponsors (who paid for the weather control), Operators (who manipulated the weather), where it happened, and when:

NOAA Reported Weather Modification Activities in the United States of America (Google Fusion Table)

NOAA Corporate Services - Individuals Engaged in Weather Modification Activities, COMMERCE/NOAA-8 [DELETED]

Weather Modification Experiments. View Map on ClimateViewer 3D. Also see the raw data on Google Fusion Tables

WMO Reported Weather Modification Activities (worldwide)

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Weather Modification Conferences

The World of Geoengineering: A Half-Century of Earth System Experimentation

ETC Group publishes a world map of geoengineering programs — the large-scale manipulation of earth or climate systems. While there is no complete record of the scores of weather and climate control projects in dozens of countries, this map is the first attempt to document the expanding scope of research and experimentation. Almost 300 geoengineering projects/experiments are represented on the map belonging to 10 different types of climate-altering technologies.
World-of-Geoengineering-etcgroup geoengineering programs

ETC Group Geoengineering Map map.geoengineeringmonitor.org

“Accidental Geoengineering” with Ship Tracks and Contrails

“The emissions and the climate change that we’re causing with that is already a massive experiment on our world that we don’t really know the outcome of. So I don’t think we should start another set of experiments and go into geoengineering. I think we should get our act together and reduce our emissions.” 
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Janos Pasztor

  • Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS-I and ACCESS-II
  • NASA / DLR-Multidisciplinary Airborne eXperiments / Emission and CLimate Impact of Alternative Fuel (ND-MAX / ECLIF 2) [Photos]
Illustration of E-PEACE design and observations of emitted particles in marine stratocumulus in Jul and Aug 2011 west of central California.
Illustration of E-PEACE Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (SHIP TRACK GEOENGINEERING EXPERIMENT) design and observations of emitted particles in marine stratocumulus in Jul and Aug 2011 west of central California.
“Accidental Geoengineering” with Ship Tracks and Contrails
“Studies have found that ships have a net cooling effect on the planet, despite belching out nearly a billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. That’s almost entirely because they also emit sulfur, which can scatter sunlight in the atmosphere and form or thicken clouds that reflect it away.” We’re about to kill a massive, accidental experiment in reducing global warming - MIT Technology Review
JET BIOFUEL ENLISTED FOR CONTRAIL CONTROL
Contrails might be a punch line in the culture these days, thanks to the imaginative folks who have rechristened them “chemtrails” and embroidered them with elaborate theories involving government and corporate misdeed. Scientists plan to use biofuels to take control of these clouds! #CirrusCloudsMatter

David Keith's StratoCruiser Geoengineering SRM Field Test

Sometime next year (Fall 2018), Harvard professors David Keith and Frank Keutsch hope to launch a high-altitude balloon, tethered to a gondola equipped with propellers and sensors, from a site in Tucson, Arizona. After initial engineering tests, the “StratoCruiser” would spray a fine mist of materials such as sulfur dioxide, alumina, or calcium carbonate into the stratosphere. The sensors would then measure the reflectivity of the particles, the degree to which they disperse or coalesce, and the way they interact with other compounds in the atmosphere.

StratoCruiser Flight System

Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Studies - FICER

Grants for (geoengineering programs) research are provided to the University of Calgary from gifts made by Mr. Bill Gates from his personal funds. The activities of the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research fall outside the scope of activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. FICER is not a Foundation project and has no relationship with it.

The fund has supported research in a wide range of areas. Some examples include:

  1. understanding carbon dioxide emissions associated with international trade in goods and services;
  2. developing technologies to capture carbon dioxide out of the air; and
  3. climate modeling to understand possible environmental consequences of solar radiation management

http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/FICER.html

Department of Homeland Security's Hurricane Modification Workshop 2008

Bill Gates and world's top Geoengineering Researchers collaborate on patents: Hurricane Protection for Cash! department-of-homeland-security-and-noaa-hurricane-modification-workshop-report-2008-logo

The Silver Lining Project: Cloud-making boats, ocean pumps to halt hurricanes?

Geoengineering Programs: Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB), Cloud Albedo Modification

The Silver Lining Project geoengineering program is a not-for-profit international scientific research collaboration to study the effects of particles (aerosols) on clouds, and the influence of these cloud effects on climate systems.

silver lining project marine cloud brightening geoengineering programs

The Haida Salmon Restoration Project: Dumping iron in the ocean to save fish, capture carbon

Geoengineering Programs: Ocean Iron Fertilization

In mid-october 2012 ETC Group, working with partners, uncovered a large-scale unauthorised geoengineering scheme that had been carried out in July 300 km off the west coast of Canada, close to the islands of Haida Gwaii.

haida salmon geoengineering ocean iron fertilization dump august 2012 geoengineering programs

The Stratoshield “Hose to the Sky” Could Reverse Global Warming

Geoengineering Programs: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)

We’ve been working on some ideas related to climate change, as a kind of backup plan in case human effort to curb emissions don’t succeed fast enough to prevent devastating ecological damage. One of the ideas that has captured our imagination is replicating the way volcanoes have at times brought down the temperature of the planet by erupting sulfur dioxide particles up into the stratosphere. We’ve invented a “hose to the sky” we call the StratoShield, which is a comparatively cost effective way to do this.

StratoSheild stratospheric spray hose with blimp geoengineering programs

Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)

Geoengineering Programs: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)
The project had attracted a forceful protest campaign from NGOs such as Friends of the Earth and ETC group. A petition signed by more than 50 organisations was handed in the same day as the decision to pause the project was announced by the EPSRC. They objected to the project in part because they feared that a "plan B" approach of engineering the climate will offer politicians an excuse for not taking tough decisions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fules such as oil, coal and gas. | Link
  • How will geoengineers address the statements of the AMS, WMO, and NRC on Weather Modification? | Link
  • The SPICE project: a geoengineering feasibility study | Link
  • Scientists to create artificial volcano for climate change experiment | Link
  • Political backlash to geoengineering begins | Link
  • Scientists criticise handling of pilot project to 'geoengineer' climate | Link
  • Demonstrating the SPICE project | Video Link
  • Cooling the Planet - Naked Engineering | Video Link
SPICE SRM overview geoengineering programs

SPICE testbed geoengineering programs

Weather Modification Programs

Weather Modification, Inc. Projects

CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Antigua Antigua Cloud Seeding Project
Argentina Province of Mendoza Ministry of Economy
Australia Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
Burkina Faso Program SAAGA
Canada Alberta Hail Suppression Project
British Colombia Ministry of Forest
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
Saskatchewan National Hydrology Research Agency
Greece Greek National Hail Suppression Program (ELGA)
Hellenic Navy Supply Center
India Andhra Pradesh Rainfall Enhancement Project
Prakalpa Varsha – Maharashtra Rainfall Enhancement Project
Project Varuna – Karnataka Rainfall Enhancement Project
Indonesia BPPT Weather Modification Program
Jordan Arab Automated Systems
Heshamite Kingdom of Jordan
Mali Programme Sanji – Mali
Mexico Precipitation for Augmentation of Rain in Coahuila (PARC)
Morocco Programme Al-Ghait
Saudi Arabia Program for Cloud Physics Research and Rain Enhancement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
World Meteorological Organization in cooperation with SAU/WMO/FIT Rain Enhancement Project
Senegal Republique du Senegal – Ministry of Armed Forces
Spain Canary Islands – AIRAO Incorporated
Thailand Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation (BRRAA)
Turkey ISKI Rain Enhancement Program
Petkim Petrokimya Holding, A.S. Rain Enhancement Program
United Arab Emirates U.A.E. Rain Enhancement Program
U.A.E. Rainfall Enhancement and Air Chemistry Studies – DWRS
United States Aeromet, Inc. (L-3 Communications) – U.S Department of Defense
BAMEX – Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment
CALIPSO – CloudSat Validation Experiment
Delaware Department of Agriculture Cloud Seeding Program
Edwards Aquifer Authority
Federal Aviation Administration – Great Lakes Division
Gratiot Weather Modification Project
Illinois Weather Modification Projects
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – National Hurricane Center
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Nevada State Cloud Seeding Program
New Mexico BLAST (Burst Light and Stratus Transmission) Project
North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (NDCMP)
North Dakota Thunderstorm Project – North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board
North Dakota Tracer Experiment – North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board
Northeast Sampling Program – Sonoma Technology, Inc.
NSF/NCAR ICE-L Field Campaign
Oklahoma Weather Modification Project (OWMP)
Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District Rainfall Enhancement Program
Santa Barbara County Water Agency
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
Stanislaus Weather Modification Program
State of South Dakota – Department of Natural Resources Division of Weather Modification
Texas Central High Plains Rainfall Enhancement Program
Texas Experiment in Augmenting Rainfall through Cloud Seeding (TEXARC)
Texas Weather Modification Program
The University of North Dakota – US Environmental Protection Agency
University of Arizona – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Upper American River Cloud Seeding Project
Upper Payette River Basin Cloud Seeding Program
Upper Tuolumne River Weather Modification Program
Utah Division of Water Resources
Utah Division of Water Resources
West Central Texas Council of Governments Rainfall Enhancement Program
Western Dakota Water Development District – Black Hills Council of Local Government
Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Program

snowpack augmentation usgs - cloud seeding - wyoming king air

Global Weather Modification Projects

Worldwide Precipitation Enhancement Programs - NCAR RAP - Cloud Seeding Experiments

ASR04_PE-Worldwide Precipitation Enhancement Programs - NCAR RAP - Chinese Cloud Seeding Experiments

Texas Weather Modification

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