Geoengineering and Climate Control Discussion

There is a line of research on what's called geoengineering,

which are various techniques that would delay the heating to buy us

20 or 30 years to get our act together.

Uh, now the new White House science advisor

is talking about much more ambitious

ideas, using technology to reset the Earth's

climate ourselves, controlling our weather.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates is backing the first high-altitude

experiment of one radical

climate change solution, creating a massive chemical cloud

that could cool the

Earth. It's called solar geoengineering and

It would look something like this.

Thousands of planes would fly very high and use nozzles to inject

millions of tons of light-reflecting particles into the stratosphere.

It would create a thin chemical cloud of those particles around the whole

planet, blocking some sunlight from reaching the

surface.

Stop injecting it, and after a year, the cloud is gone, and you get this rapid

warming at a rate much faster than you would get if we had done nothing.

normal weather. We're finally done, we hope,

with the historic summer heat wave

we had.

Jim here with us with one more look back and a look forward to what may become a

very

Hottest summer ever, hottest month ever, hottest July,

hottest August, hot-

Tonight, a good chunk of the country is feeling hot under the collar as

an intense and what forecasters say will be a prolonged heat wave

starts to take a dangerous hold across the middle of the country.

By tomorrow at this time, temperatures will soar into the triple

digits as far

north as Minnesota. And no, this is not par for the course in

July. This month, we have seen more than 900 temperatures

meet or exceed all-time records. And of course, July is

only half over.

Out west, there is a drought so vast it stretches

from fire-ravaged

California to drying lakes, rivers, and wells in Utah,

Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada.

40% of our country is in drought tonight.

You may not feel the heat, but you're feeling the impact.

The biggest reservoir in the US just hit a record low.

This is Lake Mead, held back by the Hoover Dam.

Uh, you can now add Planet Earth's most

plentiful natural resource to the list of

things that investors can trade. Water began trading on the Chicago

Mercantile

Exchange today, joining other commodities such as oil, s-

The nation's largest two reservoirs, Lake Mead near Las Vegas and Lake

Powell, have fallen to their lowest levels on

record.

One-

So an American company called the CME Group has added

water to the futures market.

The idea is f- for you to bet on how well a product will

sell at a future

date and set a price for it today.

Well, a federal appeals court ruling that the US Constitution does not include

the

right to clean drinking water.

We're also looking at chemtrails and the impact of emissions,

uh, emissions from,

uh, from aircraft and those potential impacts.

For the development of a weather satellite

that will permit man to determine the

world's cloud layer

and ultimately to control the weather, and he who

controls the weather will control the world, world, world.