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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

Call it skypainting, and make it stop

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Agreed 👍 🤝

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Jeff M's avatar

Excellent job here Jim.

Jim has it exactly right. The main problem we have is the pollution from the under-refined jet fuel, and people don't quite get it. There are all kinds of metals in it. They spew toxins on us every second the engine is on. I was recently in Guadalajara Mexico and we deboarded on the runway instead of a skyway. You would not believe the stench of fuel on that tarmac. It just about knocked you out. You don't get to. smell that here in the states.

I was trained as a meteorologist by the US Navy. One of my duties was to launch 'weather balloons' with their attached measurement device, the radiosonde. It gave us, the meteorologists that briefed the pilots on the weather on their mission, the knowledge of where the aircraft should NOT fly because we knew where the contrails would be found. Dead giveaway even for someone not equipped with radar. So if you look in the sky, look for the bright white cirrus clouds. If they are there in view there is a chance for an aircraft to leave a linear cloud, a contrail. If they are not there you will NOT see a persistent contrail. I picked this up again after years of not using it and it has been over a 2 year study to ascertain all of this again, years after using it for my job. Nothing has changed.

The Windy app has a 'Contrail Finder'. I will be doing a video on that in the near future to show you how to use it, with my friend Stella Q on her Youtube channel. We did a video on c-trails in the fall when one of the hurricanes dissipated off of the west coast. And we did 2 videos on clouds in other 'Sky Wise' videos. One was on the cloud types, and the other on how they form.

There were charts before this cloud finder plugin for Windy that we used to determine if contrails were possible, called Appleman charts that the military developed. It was about the survival of aircraft, and it still applies today. The physics have not changed. It is about the conditions in the atmosphere. It is about the temperature and humidity combination.

If I were to interview people on the street today, and point to that bright white feathery cloud in the sky and ask what type of cloud it was maybe 10% of people could answer that question. And if I asked how high it is, in thousands of feet, maybe 1% could answer it. Why? Because very few were taught weather in school. No fault of your.

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

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Frank Jacob's avatar

Excellent breakdown as always. Thanks Jim!

Note: I interviewed Jim recently on my podcast about exactly this topic and more. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/VgPTJfUheRs

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Shameless self plug Frank, I love it. Let's do a follow up.

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Geoengineering Free Canada's avatar

😉

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

❤️ you Bettina!

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Hugh Boone's avatar

You said it yourself Jim, commercial aircraft fly in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from the mid-latitudes and poleward.

From the thermal radiation geoengineering proposals, not SAI, it was suggested that a concentration or 16 or more nuclei per litre in the atmosphere would establish an over-seeding regime.

Now we have “43 million commercial flights annually, many of which cruise at altitudes between 30,000 and 40,000 feet.” This covers the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. I think they are more concentrated toward the northern latitudes, so the ice nuclei concentration would be more pre-dominant there. Jet fuel releases ash through the process of combustion. About 0.045kg of ash is produced for every 450kg of fuel burned. This steady-state concentration of metallic nanoparticles is millions of times greater than the threshold for over-seeding. All of these act as ice nuclei, not just aluminium.

This is the basis for the continuous aviation-induced cirrus cloud cover in the troposphere and artificial stratospheric clouds in the stratosphere, which have an even greater net-warming effect. So it’s in the troposphere and the stratosphere. It would be short lived and fade in days but for the fact it is continually replenished whether water is present to form clouds or not.

Anyone who thinks that spewing metallic particles into the upper atmosphere is going to cool the planet is missing a huge part of the puzzle.

It’s not SAI, that’s a red herring in my opinion. Continual proposals to taunt chemtrail activists. But the milky white skies are real and experienced on a regular basis. I believe these came about in the 90’s (sporadically at first then more frequently) over the mid-latitudes as cover for the deliberate warming going on further north. These are lower down, around 5,000 to 10,000 feet which is why people noticed them more readily. I believe they are brought about by use of seeding agents such as milled urea as patented in 1971 by Robert Knollenberg. These have a large endothermic heat of solution which means that in addition to their role of nucleating ice and water, they also drastically reduce the temperature of the regions they are deployed in. The use of these ice-nucleating agents at the level of cirrus clouds will force the over abundant ice crystals to precipitate down to the levels of the lower clouds.

Weather modification method

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3613992

It will perturb the coincidence theorists beyond endurance to learn that Robert Knollenberg, the inventor of the weather modification method using milled urea described above was also an acknowledged expert on contrail formation and published in 1971 (the same year) the seminal paper:

Measurements of the Growth of the Ice Budget in a Persisting Contrail

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/29/7/1520-0469_1972_029_1367_motgot_2_0_co_2.xml

NASA refer to this paper today to confirm that the water from the jet engine as compared to atmospheric water in a contrail is relatively insignificant (conservatively estimated as being around 24,000 times less):

NASA:

“Nearly all of the contrail is created from the moisture in the atmosphere.”

Knollenberg:

“The measured water mass within the contrail was found to be four orders of magnitude greater than that computed as a combustion product.”

Extremely curious however, are Knollenberg’s predictions in the paper on the likely effect of contrails on the amount of water in the upper atmosphere:

Knollenberg states in 1971 that contrails will shift water to lower levels in the atmosphere in the same year (as his statement) he patents a method for forcing water onto ice nuclei to perform the same function.

Then, starting in 1995 water levels in the atmosphere do just that, around the same time that people begin noticing military jets leaving behind “contrail-clouds” that occur at lower levels in the atmosphere where they have no business occurring. Note the jets don’t need to be operating at lower levels because the trails and contrail-clouds themselves descend to the lower levels where observers may misconstrue this as being due to lower jet flight paths.

This is followed by a simultaneous reduction in global cirrus cloud cover and a notable slowdown in the ascent of global surface temperatures often referred to by skeptics as the notorious “global warming pause.”

https://hughboone.substack.com/p/a-study-in-infra-red-part-14-red-pill-or-the-blue-pill

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Phar Percheron's avatar

Watching the video of EPA hearing. You guys put out so much hard-core information, including impacts of air pollution on health... I thought I knew some stuff about this area, but Mike's presentation made my hair stand on end.

Dear readers, please consider a paid subscription to this substack, or to his patreon. What you see in this video is the quality of advocacy that can make a difference. This is an example of what Jim can deliver for us given some financial support. Jim does all this work in his spare time, after supporting his family with the 9 to 5, and taking care of the family's trailer park.

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Thank you Phar. I get by with a little help from my friends, and God willing, I can quit my 9 to 5 and get back to doing things like testifying and pushing for solutions instead of devoting my spare time to educating others who aren't willing to understand the problem, let alone address it properly.

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Phar Percheron's avatar

"Cobalt is particularly important in the petrochemical industry as a catalyst for removing sulphur and other impurities from crude oil, improving fuel quality and reducing emissions. "

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/why-uk-wants-ukraines-cobalt-and

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

And we find cobalt in jet exhaust, confirmed.

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Chris thorpe's avatar

States can ban it. Bit tennessee recently discovered they have no JURISDICTION IN THE SKIES?!?!

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Scariest words you'll ever hear:

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

The feds own the sky and the planes in it, and I knew this in 2013 and that's why I testified at the EPA hearing on flight pollution in 2015 because it was about the Clean Air Act and that's the only way to stop the problem.

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Sayer Ji's avatar

What an incredibly informative and well written article.

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Thank you brother.

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WILDBERRY FOREST HOMESTEAD's avatar

We love you Jim. You've trying to get everyone to know the real truth for years. I hope they read stack and watch your videos on YT. Reinettes stacks too. If we're going to fight to create laws, we need legislative bills that will really be effective and change things like stopping JP8 jet fuel pollution and ships tracks created from burning sludge aka bunker fuel, dirtiest fuel on the planet. 👍🤞 lol, I remember Mike showing us this stuff every single night. I really miss him. Glad you healed from your thyroid issue too. 🙏✝️❤️. I learned alot from both of both you men. Thank you.

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WILDBERRY FOREST HOMESTEAD's avatar

Btw, I'm in Alabama on Lookout mtn and saw jet tracks day after the polar blast storms were over. We haf finally gotten 1 day of a clear blue beautiful sky only to see them SAI starting. I watched the planes and the next day the sky was completely covered with filthy dirty fake cloudy skies that lasted all day. Man I was pissed and disappointed.

I'm fed up with this damn crap. It affects my forest and others around the mtn I live on, by killing lots of trees.

One morning I was sitting outside having my coffee and I heard a really loud pound on the ground, was a 150 foot oak tree, then only minutes later to hear another drop. These heavy metals affect my garden. It has to be stopped. 🙏🤞

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

God bless you. We shall overcome and clear the air. I miss Mike too.

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Dan Fournier's avatar

Outstanding work as usual Jim!

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Thank you Dan. I want to interview you on my show. Let's set that up.

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Dan Fournier's avatar

Just email me to let me know what you had in mind. Thanks

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Dan Fournier's avatar

Wow, it would be my honour to do so though I am no expert on the subject as you are (nor am I as persistent as you). I should have you on my podcast as the expert if you are willing.

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

I'd be honored brother.

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Dan Fournier's avatar

Hi again Jim. I had sent you a formal invite via email, pls let me know if you didn't receive it. Thanks

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Dan Fournier's avatar

That would be wonderful. Let me send you a formal email invite.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

I'm-sharing-this-everywhere!!!

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Thank you Reinette! We will https://saveourskies.org/ !

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Haw-Bin's avatar

Thank you Jim. I have 2 related questions.

1) If aviation pollution accounts for the major part of the mess we see in the skies, does it follow that we should be able to associate the majority of c-trails to flight trackers? Does this turn out to actually be the case? Or, do we still lack good data here?

2) On the theme of aviation pollution, would it be reasonable to present this in terms of economical tradeoff? Adulterated / spiked jet fuels are presumably used to reduce cost. Could commercial airlines offer consumers a choice, e.g. pay $X extra per flight hour to opt into a cleaner burning fuel?

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

Great questions!

1. I am building a map to combine this info, but in the mean time do this:

Go to windy.com and look at radiosonde data (learn how to read them and do they meet the Schmidt-Appleman Criterion to determine should a plane be making clouds) or install the contrail plugin on windy.com and click on the map and it will tell you. Learning both is even better. I'll cover this in the video tonight.

2. It's true that avoiding making contrail cirrus will cost the airlines more, but I think we all agree it's worth it. Yes, there are ways to alter jet fuel to possibly create less clouds, but the best way forward is flights altering their path or altitude to avoid ice supersaturated regions (ISSR), called "Contrail Avoidance" and they won't make clouds that linger, spread, and block sunlight. This will cost more fuel, meaning slightly more nanoparticles from exhaust and erosion, but is 95% guaranteed to stop aviation induced cloudiness. Of course, the airlines will pass this cost on to consumers.

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Haw-Bin's avatar

On altering flight paths - what's your take on Google's Project Contrails? (https://sites.research.google/contrails/)

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Jim Lee @ClimateViewer's avatar

They are partners with Bill Gates, Ken Caldeira, and https://contrails.org/

It's “climate mitigation” aka “geoengineering with contrails.“

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Eddy's avatar

#2 - That would be really hard to implement besides the airlines have rejected attempts to regulate the fuel.

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Carlita Shaw's avatar

decoding climate change its an agenda used to poison the planet with geoengineering https://carlitashaw.substack.com/p/decoding-climate-change-is-the-narrative

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Autumn's avatar

Why can't we go after both? If DOGE can identify where the $ is coming from that pays for all this dangerous stupid ugly unnecessary reflective particle spraying of any kind other than regular aircraft... STOP THE $$$ AND IT STOPS THE OPERATIONS. Then on the other front work on legislation and fuel/energy technologies to clean up the plane pollution. WE CAN HAVE BOTH!

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Amy Harlib's avatar

Clearing the fog a little, follow the money trail, it's not so hard to figure out what and who is behind all the evil in the world!

Also check out Reinette Senum's 'Save Our Skies': https://www.saveourskies.org

https://frankenskies.com

GREED is behind every deviltry assailing us in the world!

The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

KEEP UP THE STRUGGLE! BE VIGILANT! NO RESTING ON LAURELS!

MERS! MONEYPOX! All those WHO/WEF/UN control freaks, BUGGER OFF AND LEAVE US ALONE!

NO TO YOUR CORRUPT MONEY-MAKING RACKETS!

Hell with the hypochondria germaphobia fear hysteria monkeyshines driving us all ape! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT BEFORE WE ALL GO BANANAS!

SERIOUSLY FOLKS! KEEP FIGHTING! Can't say this often enough! The WHO/UN/WEF are totally criminal entities that must be litigated and dismantled off the face of the earth and its upper level employees tried and jailed. Nothing THE WORLD HELL ORGANIZATION does has any legitimacy.

EQUITY is Orwellian doublespeak for equal ENSLAVEMENT of us proles under the technocratic parasitical malevolent rule by control freak, power-mad psychos. The word EQUITY makes my blood boil whenever I hear it now that I understand its true meaning.

A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.

The world needs a lot more rejections of the UN/WHO's nefarious schemes.

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

Can't say this often enough!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections were/are a huge part of their arsenal! MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

The terrible senators, horrifying Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

BURN BACK BETTER!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! www.technocracy.news

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

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