Geoengineering and Weather Modification Timeline
Welcome to the Weather Modification History Geoengineering and Weather Modification Timeline. Each event in this timeline contains descriptions, quotes, images, videos, and MLA formatted references archived by Jim Lee and is divided into three main categories:
- Geoengineering:: Also known as Climate Engineering or Climate Intervention, Geoengineering is the inadvertent (unintentional or "accidental") or intentional attempt by humans to control the temperature of the world and/or modify nature on massive scales to achieve a desired result (such as melting the arctic or to solve The Dust Bowl).
- Weather Modification: Is the inadvertent or intentional attempt by humans to control rainfall, hail, lightning, cyclones, and any other tropospheric weather phenomenon.
- Space Weather Modification: Is the inadvertent or intentional attempt by humans to alter our upper atmosphere (ionosphere, mesosphere) through rockets and satellite chemical releases and injection of high powered electromagnetic radiation (like ionospheric heaters, lasers, and charged particle beams).
This timeline, while far from being complete, covers over 150 years of attempts to control our climate and weather. Some events cover larger patterns (like contrail-cirrus from aviation, 1958 to present) while others are very specific to a single event, statement, or publication. If you find any errors, omissions, or would like to see something included in this timeline please feel free to contact Jim Lee via email at jim@climateviewer.com.
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- Geoengineering
- Weather Modification
- Space Weather Modification
TIMELINE TAGS
- Artificial clouds
- Ban geoengineering
- Carbon black dust
- Central intelligence agency
- Chemical release
- Cirrus cloud seeding
- Climate change
- Cloud ionization
- Cloud seeding
- Decrease precipitation
- Directed energy weapon
- Federal funding
- Foia
- Geoengineering field experiment
- Geoengineering governance
- Hurricane modification
- Ionospheric heater
- Legal
- Lightning control
- Marine cloud brightening
- Melt the arctic
- Ocean iron fertilization
- Pluviculture
- Popular
- Rogue geoengineering
- Solar radiation management
- Tornado control
- Weather warfare
Mexico Bans “Make Sunsets” Rogue Geoengineering
April 2022 - Present
Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
January 17, 2022
Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) StratoCruiser
Spring 2019
“Hands Off Mother Earth” Manifesto: A Permanent Ban on Geoengineering
October 2018
Iran Accuses Israel of Cloud Theft
June 2, 2018
HAARP Readies for Busiest Research Season since UAF Acquired Observatory in 2015
April 6-14, 2018
Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
January 10, 2018
NASA/DLR-Multidisciplinary Airborne eXperiments, Emission and CLimate Impact of alternative Fuel (ND-MAX/ECLIF 2)
January 2018
Congressional Hearing on Geoengineering: Innovation, Research, and Technology
November 8, 2017
USDA Sprays Electrified Water Over Texas
Drones electrically seed clouds in United Arab Emirates
2017-Present
Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program
March 24, 2017
Climate Global Control Trading LLC Creates and Steers Hurricanes with Ionospheric Technology
January 2016
Commercial Aviation Creating Ice Haze and “Accidental Geoengineering”
December 2015
Geoengineering Necessary to Meet COP21 Goals
November - December 2015
HAARP Ionospheric Heater Sold to University of Alaska, Back Online
September 3, 2015
Activists Challenge EPA at Hearing on Flight Pollution
August 11, 2015
Contrail Cirrus Cloud Seeding and Thinning
January 2015
CIA Concerned Rogue Geoengineering is Undetectable!
January - March 2015
Jet Biofuel Enlisted for Contrail Control
February 2013 - July 2014
HAARP Creates Densest Artificial Plasma Cloud
November 12, 2012
Russ George: The World's First Rogue Geoengineer
August 12-29, 2012
AMEG Demands Global Geoengineering, Project LUCY, & The ANGELS Proposal
May - December 2012
Aquiess and SciBlue Steer Atmospheric River Over Texas
April 16 - July 16, 2012
Do Planes Trigger Rains? Fallstreak Holes
August 21, 2011
United Nations Environmental Program Warns Geoengineering Could Hurt Ozone Layer
August 1-5, 2011
Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment (E-PEACE)
February 23, 2011
Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE)
October 2010
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI)
September 28, 2010
United Nations Warns Against Large Scale Weather Modification
March 22-24, 2010
ICAO Presentation on Intentional Geoengineering with Contrail Cirrus
March 4, 2010
The Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies
February 22-26, 2010
DHS Hurricane Mitigation: Project HURRMIT and HAMP
January 2010
The Intellectual Ventures StratoShield “Hose in the Sky”
November 28, 2009
US/UK Joint Inquiry on Geoengineering: House Hearings
November 2009 - March 2010
Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)
September 8-18, 2009
NOAA Refuses DHS Hurricane Modification Program
July 29, 2009
Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2009
April 16, 2009
Operational Defenses through Weather Control in 2030
April 2009
COntrails Spreading Into Cirrus (COSIC)
March 2009
Laser Guided Lightning Rods
2008-Present
Council on Foreign Relations on Planetary Scale Geoengineering
May 5, 2008
Steering Cyclones with the Thunderstorm Solar Powered Satellite, Bernard Eastlund
April 21, 2008
Chinese Weather Modification at the Beijing Olympics
March 25, 2008
Department of Homeland Security Hurricane Modification Workshop Report
February 6-7, 2008
Bill Gates Funds Geoengineering Research: FICER
January 2007 - Present
CBS News: Sky Graffiti Warming Up Earth?
July 29, 2006
HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) Operating at Full Power
Harnessing Artificial Tornadoes as an Energy Source
October 1, 2005
Russian Geoengineering Solar Radiation Management Field Experiment
September 25, 2005
Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005
June 20, 2005
Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005
March 3, 2005
Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research
October 2003
The Weather Damage Modification Program (WDMP)
High Voltage Orbiting Long Tether (HiVOLT) to Remove Space Radiation
September 11, 2001 Airline Groundings: Contrails Affect Daily Temperature Range
September 11, 2001
CME Group Launches Weather Derivatives
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is Operational
March 1999
Doctor Evil’s Geoengineering Plan: From National Lab to Global Governance
August 15, 1997 - April 19, 2002
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Secretary of Defense William Cohen on Eco-Terrorism with Electromagnetic Waves
April 28, 1997
Test Technology Symposium 1997: Weather Modification
March 19, 1997
Triggered-Lightning Avoidance for Space Launches
Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Paper “Counterforce Weather Control: SPACECAST 2020”
FOIA Reveals U.S. Navy Weather Modification Program Still Active at China Lake
April 1994
FOIA Reveals U.S. Air Force Geophysics Directorate Weather Modification Intentions
Triggering the HF Breakdown of the Atmosphere by Barium Release
March 19, 1993
Mount Pinatubo Eruption Cools Planet, Scientists Rejoice
June 12, 1991
Geoengineering with Sulfur, Jet Fuel, and Commercial Aviation
1991 - Present
The “Silver Lining Project” Marine Cloud Brightening Boats
September 27, 1990
Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) and the Arecibo Ionospheric Heater
July 1990 - September 1993
Department of Defense HAARP Steering Group - Joint Services Program
December 13, 1989 - February 12, 1990
International Treaties and Active Experiments in Space
September 1, 1989
Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR)
July 13, 1989
Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) Experiment
Russian Cloud Seeding Prevents Chernobyl’s Radioactive Rains Reaching Moscow
April 26, 1986
Stanford Star Lab: New Concepts in Ionospheric Modification
April 15, 1986 - November 1987
The Russian Woodpecker, Chernobyl Meltdown, and Ionospheric Heating Over the USA (1983-1986)
A High Flying Theory on Acid Rain Problem
September 1982
Project Waterhole, Interrupting Aurora With Water Vapor
Clouded Judgment: Do Jet Contrails Increase Cloud Cover?
December 30, 1980
NOAA Atmospheric Modification Program (AMP)
Weather may be unnaturally severe because of unnatural modification
March 13, 1979
NASA Project Cameo Barium Cloud Over Alaska
October 30, 1978
Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy, and Potential
Cesare Marchetti Coins the Term “Geoengineering”
March 1977
The Environmental Modification Convention (ENMOD) Weather Warfare Ban
December 10, 1976 - January 17, 1980
National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976
October 13, 1976
Weather Modification UAV Drones
November 4, 1974
Steering Hurricanes with Carbon Black Dust
Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972
December 18, 1971
Sounding Rockets Explosive Shells Pound Ionosphere
1970 - 1975
Two States Sue Airlines Over “Smoke Pollution of the Skies”
CIA Project Nile Blue - Rain Embargo on Cuban Sugar Crops
Solar-Powered Satellite (SPS) Weather Control Death Ray
Great Lakes Snow Redistribution Project
Operation Popeye, Motorpool, Intermediary, Compatriot: Weather Warfare Over Vietnam
March 20, 1967 - July 5, 1972
A Recommended National Program In Weather Modification
November 7, 1966
Weather and Climate Modification Reports from 1965-1966
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment
November 1965
Project High Altitude Research Program (HARP) Cannons Launch Chemical Payloads Into Space
Artificial Strontium and Barium Clouds in the Upper Atmosphere
February 14, 1964 - December 3, 1964
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
October 10, 1963
Plasma Seeding and Magnetospheric Modification Begins!
May 1963 - Present
National Cumulus Modification Project
1963 - 1972
Project Stormfury
August 17, 1962 - 1983
President Lyndon Johnson Approves Weather Warfare
May 27, 1962 - 1969
Project Highwater
April 25, 1962 - November 16, 1962
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October 21, 1961 - September 5, 1963
President Kennedy United Nations Address On Weather Modification
September 25, 1961
Meteotron Jet Engines Create Clouds and Tornadoes
June 17, 1961 - 1969
Project Skywater: Atmospheric Water Resources Management
1961 - 1988
Project Firefly - Chemical Releases in Space
July-December 1960
National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE)
1959 - 1981
U.S. Navy Creates and Destroys Clouds Using Carbon Black
September 9, 1958
Dam the Bering Strait, Use Nuclear-Powered Propellers to Melt Poles
Metal particle space ring to melt the arctic
Project Skyfire: Preventing Forest Fires with Cloud Seeding
1956 - 1967
Project SCUD, U.S. Navy Hurricane Modification
October 1952 - March 1954
Cloud Seeding Projects in the USA (1952-1965)
Irving P. Krick's Ground-based Cloud Seeder
December 1949
Contrail Cirrus Complaints Begin Nationwide
November 16, 1948 - Present
Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
October 20, 1948
Project Cirrus, First Hurricane Cloud Seeding Experiment
October 13, 1947
Vincent Schaefer, Irving Langmuir, and Bernard Vonnegut invent Cloud Seeding
November 13, 1946
Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO)
Nuke the Arctic to Melt the Poles
Great Plains Shelterbelt and the Dust Bowl
Space mirrors to focus sunlight and melt polar icecaps
End Of Iceberg Menace!
September 29, 1912
C.W. Post: Cereal Czar and Rainmaker
Charles Mallory Hatfield “The Moisture Accelerator” Makes Rain For L.A., Floods San Diego
1902 - January 20, 1916
