Climate Change v War of the Weathers

“From space one could control the earth's weather, cause drought and floods, change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, make temperate climates frigid,” then‐Senator Lyndon B. Johnson told a joint session of Congress in 1957.

Like many other legislators, he accepted Defense Department fantasies that the United States was in race with the Soviet Union to develop environmental weapons.

Can a nation that tampers with natural balances deny responsibility for what follows?

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/17/archives/war-of-the-weathers.html

Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA333462

Address by President John F. Kennedy to the UN General Assembly

[We must [create even as we destroy]–creating worldwide law and law enforcement]

We shall propose further cooperative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control.

September 25, 1961

https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207241.htm

Summary of the January 18 - 20th 1961 Nor'easter.

This storm is dubbed the "Kennedy Inaugural Snowstorm" since it occurred on the eve of John F Kennedy's Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C.

https://www.weather.gov/rlx/jan61

The climate crisis is a water crisis

In the United States alone, we’ve seen climate change fuel disastrous conditions like the ongoing droughts that are draining the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers, the impact of Hurricane Ian in Florida and wildfires in the Southwest. In the Middle East, temperatures are rising so catastrophically fast that the whole region’s water supplies and food production systems are under threat. Heat waves and floods in Europe are exposing numerous countries to water scarcity and life-threatening extreme weather events.

These crises — just a small sample of what’s happening to water supplies around the globe — are not coincidences.

03/25/23

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3917128-the-climate-crisis-is-a-water-crisis/

[cause drought and floods]

violent twisters formed amid a severe weather outbreak that unleashed damage from Louisiana to North Carolina. They were fueled by record-setting heat and energized by howling jet stream winds.

The twisters formed from the same destructive storm system that barged into California’s Bay Area on Tuesday and produced deadly flooding in both the Desert Southwest and the nation’s midsection.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/03/25/mississippi-tornadoes-path-what-happened/