WEBVTT - Weather Modification and the White House's Crypto Framework 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.200 Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest episode from the 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.800 midweek edition of the coin Bureau podcast. Every week, I 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.600 pick out two of my favorite videos from coin Bureau's 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.959 YouTube channel to present to you in podcast form. The 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.920 audio you're about to hear is from those videos I've 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.560 chosen this week. Many of you have been in touch 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:20.800 to ask whether it's possible to listen to our videos 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.440 in podcast format, and so your wish is my command. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.360 This week I've selected our videos on weather modification and 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.840 the White House's efforts to crack down on cryptocurrency. Now, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.080 every so often we like to go a bit off 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.800 piece here at coin Bureau and look into something removed 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.880 from crypto. It could be a scandal from the world 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.640 of traditional finance, or, as in today's case, some strange 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.440 goings on that don't get nearly the amount of media 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.519 coverage they should. Humans have been trying to control the 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.040 weather for millennia, but it wasn't until the twentieth century 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.800 that we started getting any good at it. It's now 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.240 thought that many countries around the world are involved whether 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.440 modification schemes of some kind, both for benign and possibly 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.680 nefarious purposes. What striking is that the technology which has 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.920 been developed to make this possible is in many cases 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.320 apparently extremely effective. In the first part of today's episode, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.680 I look at some of these technologies and tackle the 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.479 question of why hardly anybody seems to be talking about this. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.520 Next up, a look at what's been going on with 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.840 regards to crypto at six Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, d C. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.640 You might recall that President Biden issued an executive order 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.880 about cryptocurrency all the way back in March, and the 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.600 deadline for US agencies to submit their responses to it 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.920 fell earlier this month. Shortly afterwards, the White House released 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.800 a summary of these responses as a quote comprehensive framework 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.960 for responsible development of Digital assets. This report has important 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.440 implications for cryptocurrency, which is why we've read and summarized 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.520 it for you. I hope you enjoy are listening to 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.080 these two pieces, and I'll be back talking crypto with 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.080 Mike very soon, so be sure to stay tuned, and 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.760 if you want even more content from coin Bureau, be 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.880 sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and visit us 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:35.840 on social media too. Humans have been trying to control 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.680 the weather since the dawn of time, and to this day, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.720 it's generally believed to be something that we can't do 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.760 very well, if at all. Well, what have I told you? 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.320 That almost every major country is actively modifying the weather, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:56.040 and that the effectiveness of such technologies has been increasing exponentially. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.040 Being British, I can't possibly pass up an opportunity to 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.520 talk about the weather. So today I'm going to give 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.800 you a brief history of weather modification, go over the 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.359 different methods and their effectiveness, and examine whether this technology 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:15.160 is secretly being used for nefarious purposes. As I mentioned 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.240 in the introduction, humans have been trying to control the 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.040 weather for thousands of years through all sorts of rituals. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.440 More often than not, these rituals were meant to try 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.720 and appease a god, to cause rain, usually in response 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.360 to a drought, or to try and prevent a dry season. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.280 This is actually the same reason why most governments continue 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.800 to try and manipulate the weather today, at least on paper. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.440 More about that later now. Not surprisingly, none of the 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.200 historic rain rituals were successful, and their perceived success was 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.320 only ever due to coincidence rather than any solid science. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.160 Then again, nobody can say for sure, because it's harder 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.560 to figure out what happened the further back you go. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.040 What is well documented is that many militaries around the 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.560 world started to notice that rain would fall after large 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.320 battles involving lots of gunfire in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.080 This resulted in the United States and others trying to 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.120 cause rain by shooting into the sky, but it's believed 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.760 that these experiments failed. We now know that air pollution 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.039 has the potential to seed clouds, and it's believed that 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.640 this is the main reason why there is now less 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.920 snow and ice in mountainous areas. Clouds are seeded prematurely 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.440 by car pollution, causing it to rain or snow before 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.320 the clouds can reach the mountains. The more you know now, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.560 it wasn't until the late eighteen hundreds that a German 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.200 American inventor named Louis Gaffman proposed a scientific way of 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.000 creating rain, specifically by shooting liquid carbon dioxide into clouds. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.360 It was around this time that so called rainmakers started 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.400 to emerge across the United States. Now, rainmakers were basically 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.240 traveling showman who would try and modify the weather using 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.800 a series of chemicals, among other things, Although most rainmakers 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.880 were not much better at making it rain than the 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.160 ancient ritualists, there was one man who seemed to have 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.080 a high success rate, and his name was Charles Hatfield. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.400 Charles became famous in nine four when he caused it 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.960 to rain over Los Angeles using a series of towers 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.120 spraying chemicals into the sky. When he was asked about 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.599 how he did it, Charles reportedly said, quote, I do 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.480 not make it rain. That would be an absurd claim. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.280 I simply attract clouds and they do the rest. This 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.560 is why the city of San Diego contacted Charles at 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.320 the end off in the middle of a massive drought. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.600 Charles agreed to their request to make it rain and 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.680 even said the city only had to pay him if 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.400 he succeeded, a deal too good for San Diego's officials 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:02.400 to pass up. Charles's confidence didn't disappoint because in January 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.360 nineteen sixteen, he made it rain so much that many 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.480 parts of San Diego experience floods, something he achieved by 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.240 reportedly burning chemicals in a forest outside of the city. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.240 Nineteen sixteen would go on to be the wettest year 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.800 in the region's history. Now as amazing as Charles's rainmaking was, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.840 it was still more showmanship than science. It was hard 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.880 to prove that Charles's chemical shenanigans were the actual cause 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.320 of the rain, particularly in nineteen sixteen, when the rains 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:40.560 continued long after his modification. This is why Charles's rainmaking 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.320 is disputed to this day. This is also why the 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:49.440 history of weather modification is more often associated with Vincent Schaefer, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 an American scientist who's credited with the creation of cloud 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.520 seeding in nineteen forty six while he was working as 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.839 a researcher at General Electric. What's wild is that Vincent 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.080 reportedly discovered cloud seeding by accident. The story goes that 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.320 he was working on another project related to ice formation 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.800 on aircraft when he breathed into a box where he 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.320 had placed dry ice, causing ice crystals to form in 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:21.080 the air. Note that ice crystals form before rainfall. By 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.040 the end of ninety six, Vincent had developed a way 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.280 to consistently seed clouds using aircraft to create both rain 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.320 and snow, and shortly afterwards he was contacted and contracted 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.360 by the US military to continue his cloud seeding research. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.920 Note that I'm leaving out some details here for the 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.720 sake of time. Now. In seven, Vincent worked with the U. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.440 S Military on Project Serrus to weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.160 and their first attempt took place in October that year. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.160 Believe it or not, but the cloud seeding caused the 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.560 hurricane to suddenly change direction, resulting in lots of damage 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.200 in the state of Georgia. Naturally, the people of Georgia 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.520 were none too happy, and they filed a lawsuit, which 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.560 was dismissed after the defendants found examples of hurricanes suddenly 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.160 changing course in the past, specifically in nineteen o six, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.080 around the time Charles Hatfield was active in his own 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:26.040 weather experiments. Funny that, in all seriousness, it seems the 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.920 same happened in the United Kingdom with Project Cumulus in 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.640 the nineteen fifties. Many believe that a massive flood in 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.320 nineteen fifty two was caused by the British military's cloud 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.520 seeding operations, though this was also largely dismissed on the 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:46.320 grounds that this region had flooded before. Now, the Georgia 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.560 incident reportedly paused cloud seeding research in the United States 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.880 for a decade. If true, this may be a tacit 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.200 admission by the US government that Project Sirrus may in 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.400 fact have caused that horror came to change course in 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.880 at the very least, it means they didn't know for sure, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.400 or just didn't want to be judged in the court 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.600 of public opinion. Maybe both at the same time. However, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.400 it's equally likely that the US government continued to experiment 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.280 with cloud seeding in secret. And this is because of 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.280 all the secret cloud seeding programs that were revealed shortly 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:28.040 afterwards by inquisitive journalists, such as Operation Popeye in the 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.520 nineteen sixties and seventies. Now, if you watched our video 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:36.200 about the mysterious food plant disruptions, you'll know Operation Popeye 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.839 involved creating severe storms over the Ho Chi Minh trail 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.199 used by the viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Operation 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.920 Popeye was halted in nineteen seventy two after an article 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.079 in The New York Times blew the lid on it. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.880 What's odd is that the US military claimed that they 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.360 stopped the operation because their attempts at weather manipulation had failed. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.440 This is despite the fact that the US and forty 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.400 seven other countries signed the Environmental Modification Convention, a few 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:13.360 years later prohibiting weather modification in warfare. Now, logically this 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.920 suggested that Operation Popeye was much more effective than the U. S. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.840 Military was letting on, and this efficacy was effectively proven 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.119 when countries such as Russia and China started actively modifying 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:31.520 their weather for domestic purposes in the nighties. Beijing modifying 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.240 the weather to keep the opening ceremony dry during the 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.360 two thousand and eight Olympics is probably the most famous 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:41.040 example of weather modification in recent years, and there's really 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.760 no shortage of examples from all around the world. Check 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.640 Wikipedia if you don't believe me. As of twenty seventeen, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.439 there were over fifty countries actively engaging in weather modification 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.240 to quote disperse fog, enhanced rain and snowfall, and suppress hale, 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.720 according to the World Meteorological Organization. Note that the sources 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.480 for everything in this video are in the description. Only 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:12.600 facts here, no fiction. Now, the prevalence of weather modification 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.679 begs the question of just how effective the process actually is. 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.199 The answer ultimately depends on which kind of weather modification 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.880 method we're talking about. The most common method is, of course, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.920 cloud seeding. There are actually many ways of seeding clouds, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.120 but they all follow the same principle that Vincent Schaffer 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.040 discovered almost eighty years ago, and that's creating something in 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.160 the cloud for the ice and rain to form around. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.520 This first way to see the cloud is to use 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.880 some kind of salt, including silver iodide, potassium iodide, dry 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.440 ice as Vincent did, and even standard table salt. Under 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.000 the right conditions, spraying these salts into a cloud will 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.520 cause ice to form around the salt, which then results 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.600 in rain. This is the basic explanation. The second way 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.240 to see the cloud is to shoot it with lasers, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.360 and yes, this is obviously my preferred method. This approach 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.360 to seeding clouds has been around since at least twenty ten, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.360 but there doesn't seem to be much public information about it. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.040 This might have something to do with the fact that 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:24.600 seeding clouds with lasers is apparently extremely effective. Case and Point. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:29.040 In a news report about laser cloud seeding, the newscaster 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.360 and guest explain that this technology could allow governments to 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.640 make it rain at the click of a button, and 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.199 even control the trajectory and intensity of storms. The link 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.440 will be in the description It's truly crazy stuff. Now, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.120 the third way to see the cloud is similarly sci fi, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.480 and that's to use electricity. Zapping clouds with electricity using 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.760 drones is actually how the United Arab Emirates creates artificial 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.800 rain and as far as I understand, it's a brand 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.920 new approach to clouds needing that was first tried last 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:07.200 year in Dubai. The effectiveness of seeding clouds with electricity 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.320 is also unclear, but the fact it continues to be 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.280 used by the UA in lieu of the other available 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.960 approaches suggests that it's the most effective. For reference, the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.080 UAE is extremely wealthy, meaning that every other approach is 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.199 in fact available to the country. That said, research by 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.440 UA scientists suggests that standard cloud seeding, meaning with salts 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.600 can quote enhanced rainfall by as much as thirty to 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.920 thirty five pent in a clear atmosphere and buy up 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.000 to ten to fifteen percent in a turbid atmosphere. Note 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.280 that these statistics are from way back in twenty fift 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.200 what's reassuring is that these statistics are consistent with a 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.960 cloud seeding study by the University of Wyoming, which lasted 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.800 from two thousand and eight to two thousand and thirteen 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.600 and found that cloud seeding can increase precipitation buy up 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.800 to fifteen percent. Note that these statistics also apply to 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.200 salt based cloud seeding and are also arguably outdated. It's 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.680 also important to point out that the effectiveness of cloud 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:18.200 seeding almost always depends on pre existing weather conditions. For example, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.000 cloud seeding is believed to work much better on clouds 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.000 that form over large bodies of water, such as oceans 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.960 and seas. Conversely, the absence of clouds makes cloud seeding 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:35.440 next to impossible, because well, there are no clouds to seed. Luckily, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.040 for governments looking to modify the weather, however, there are 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.120 many ways to create clouds artificially. I'll leave a link 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.680 in the description to a video that shows you one 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.640 effective method. Now, if you're feeling overwhelmed by all these 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.200 weather modification revelations, you're in for a real treat, because 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.760 cloud seeding isn't the only way that governments can modify 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.640 the weather. Some of you may have heard of the 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:04.600 U government's High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HARP 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.920 in Alaska, which lasted from to two thousand and fourteen. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.280 HARP was subsequently declassified and its facility was handed over 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.760 to the University of Alaska for academic use in two 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.160 thousand and fifteen. If you've heard of HARP, it's because 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.840 it is famous for being the go to example given 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.560 by conspiracy theorists who claim the government can control the 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:33.160 world's whether using harp's Ionospheric Research Instrument or I s I. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.080 This mostly has to do with a bunch of patents 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.360 filed by physicist Bernard Eastland, which implied that harp's I 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.280 see I could do everything from disrupting military communications to 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.440 influencing the moods of individuals around the world, a sort 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.600 of directed energy weapon, if you will. While the HARP 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.400 facility in the United States were shuttered in two thousand 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.200 and fourteen, similar facilities continue to operate in other countries, 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:04.000 notably in Norway and Russia. Some have taken this as 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.400 evidence that some of the claims in Bernard's patents were true. Now, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.600 the science of HARP is outside the scope of this video, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.040 but I'll leave a link to an excellent video about 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.120 the experiment by Curious Droid. In the description, He's a 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.520 fellow British YouTuber whose content helped with the creation of 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.320 this video, So be sure to send in my regards 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.960 and subscribe to his channel now. The next frontier for 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.120 weather modification is space, specifically using satellites to beam large 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.920 amounts of energy into storms to make them stronger or weaker, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.680 a job for Elon Musk, if ever there was one. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.080 Not like you'd have the time, though, Speaking of billionaires, 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.440 another outlandish way that we might soon modify the weather 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.680 is by spraying dust into the atmosphere to block out 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.080 the sun. This brilliant idea was brought to you by 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.200 none other than Bill Gates, who is currently funding a 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.560 company to do exactly that. There are also lots of 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.360 new weather modification methods that are taking a bottom up approach. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.080 One example is pumping air into the lower waters of 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.400 seas and oceans to bring cold water up to the surface. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.000 The cool air this cold water creates can be used 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:20.800 to weaken or even eliminate hurricanes. Pumping air into lower 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.760 waters is already being done in countries like Norway to 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.639 bring up salty water and prevent freezing around hydroelectric power 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:32.320 plants so they can continue operating through the winter. Another 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.480 example of a novel bottom up approach is to spray 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.280 salt water into the sky to reflect some of the 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:42.240 sun's light back into space. There are actually concerns though, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.160 that this and other methods such as pumping air into 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.840 lower waters, could actually cool the oceans too much and 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:53.359 cause other unwanted weather issues. In my opinion, the most 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.640 promising weather modification method was proposed in a twenty thirteen 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.119 TED talk by scientist Alan's Savery titled quote how to 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.200 Green the World's deserts and Reverse Climate Change. It's quite 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.879 possibly one of the most amazing videos you will ever watch, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.320 and I'll leave a link in the description. In short, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.719 the world is slowly turning into a desert, and this 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.840 trend will continue regardless of whether all the mainstream climate 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.960 action targets are met, namely eliminating emissions and fossil fuels 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.920 of all kinds. Note that deserts create lots of heat, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.000 which causes the kinds of extreme weather we've seen lately. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.720 Alan's solution is so simple that it's almost stupid. This 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.320 is to guide animals to graze around the land without 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:45.400 interference the way they did historically. With this simple solution, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.719 Alan has managed to turn literal deserts into green and 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:55.480 watery oases around the world. Just look at this comparison image. Now, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.480 if that wasn't incredible enough, Alan thinks this solution could 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.480 solve climate change in a matter of years while simultaneously 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:08.560 enriching developing countries through all the animal product production and exports. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.399 The availability of meat in developing countries would also significantly 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:18.080 improve nutrition as a cherry on top, all the emission reductions, 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.359 limits on energy use, and other such policies would not 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.920 be needed since all the additional greenery would absorb all 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:29.680 the CEO two while simultaneously cooling the world. Seriously, watch 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.159 that video and share it with your friends and family 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.560 while you're at it. Now, given all these facts, stats, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.199 and solutions, you might be wondering why weather modification is 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.600 seldom discussed in the context of climate change, or even 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.399 just extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and fires that 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.840 have recently been ravaging the planet. As far as I 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.440 can tell, this is because governments admitting to widespread weather 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.679 modification is likely to raise more questions than answers, namely 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.840 why governments aren't using this technology to combat climate change 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:08.320 or extreme weather events, especially revolutionary solutions like Alan's guided grazing. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.000 To be clear, there have been some reports of countries 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.399 using weather modification methods to address whether extremes, such as China, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.520 which tried to end its record breaking droughts with cloud 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.200 seeding over the summer. What doesn't make sense, however, is 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.920 that these countermeasures always seem to be less effective than 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.400 the proactive ones. This is where a bit of science 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.600 based speculation comes in. As I mentioned earlier, forty eight 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.760 countries signed the Environmental Modification Convention in the nine seventies 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:43.640 to prevent the use of weather modification in warfare. As 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.880 of two there are seventy eight countries which have joined 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:52.400 the convention. Even so, that doesn't guarantee that these countries 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.880 aren't still using weather modification as a form of warfare. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.520 It just may not be as avert as say, creating 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:04.040 abnorm William massive storms over Vietnam. Here's a great example 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.560 to illustrate what I mean that I also mentioned in 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.159 our food plant disruptions video. In the the Soviet Union 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:15.399 used cloud seeding after the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown to 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:20.359 ensure that radioactive rain fell on Belarus instead of Moscow. Now, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.159 riddle me this, did the Soviet Union use whether for 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:29.200 military purposes in this scenario? The answer is not that clear, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.920 and it would be hard to prove either way, because 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.760 the Soviet Union could claim the rainfalls natural, whereas Belarus 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.760 could claim it was not, assuming it even new at all. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:44.240 This is simply because WHETHER modification can't always be detected, 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:49.119 especially with the newer types of technologies. Whether also isn't 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.800 contained to a single country. It crosses borders and boundaries, 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.000 and this means what happens within a country could easily 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.680 affect the country next door. This is why there is 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.440 a lot of speculation in India that China is stealing 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.639 India's rain by causing it to reign prematurely on the 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.920 Chinese side of the mountain range that divides both countries. 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.440 This wouldn't be surprising given that China is heavily testing 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:19.040 weather modification in this region, including in the Pool. Now. 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.920 You can sum up this speculation in a sentence from 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:27.560 an article about China's weather modification by futurism. Quote, if 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:31.240 one country is able to control its own weather, it could, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.720 in theory, do so elsewhere. In other words, countries might 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.840 be actively trying to manipulate each other's weather. Bringing up 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:44.040 this technology could shed light on questionable practices by domestic 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:49.080 and foreign governments, leading to very serious domestic and foreign conflicts. 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:53.400 This ties into the very real possibility that governments are 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.440 manipulating their own weather to take more control of their 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:01.639 own citizens. After all, you can control the weather, you 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.359 can control the food supply, and that's the kind of 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:07.640 power that the folks at the World Economic Forum are 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.600 explicitly seeking. More about that using the link in the 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.959 description anecdotes aside, The fact of the matter is that 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.119 governments have the technology to make extreme weather events better 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:25.399 or worse, or rarer or more frequent. This is terrifying 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:28.919 given how governments have been acting lately, and it's something 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:33.840 that must therefore be part of any environmental discussions. So 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.000 I'll leave you with this thought. Once upon a time, 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.320 humans engaged in rituals to appease the gods to influence 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:45.360 the weather. It looks like we're starting to see history repeat, 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:50.440 except it's other humans with powerful technologies playing god, demanding 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.199 compliance in exchange for better weather. This may not be 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.320 the case today, but mark my words, at the rate 0:23:58.400 --> 0:24:02.520 that whether modification technology is advancing, it will almost certainly 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:06.080 be the case tomorrow, and in some places it probably 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.920 is already be on the lookout and remember to question 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.960 the weather and don't just complain about it like US 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:21.359 Brits do. Back in March, US President Joe Biden signed 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:26.040 an executive Order about Cryptocurrency, which instructed all relevant government 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:30.399 agencies to produce reports about crypto and how to regulate it. 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:34.280 The deadline for these reports was earlier this month, and 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:37.399 last week the White House put together a summary of 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:42.000 these reports, as well as their regulatory recommendations. Today, I'm 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:45.160 going to explain what the White House's Crypto Framework says 0:24:45.320 --> 0:24:48.600 in simple terms and tell you exactly what it could 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:52.000 mean for the crypto market. The document I'll be discussing 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:56.359 today is titled quote fact sheet. White House releases first 0:24:56.400 --> 0:25:01.439 ever comprehensive Framework for Responsible Development of Digital Assets. It 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.960 was published on the sixteen September, and I'll leave a 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:09.000 link to the full text in the description if you're interested. Now, 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:13.000 the White House's Crypto Framework begins with a juicy statistic, 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:17.600 and that's that around sixteen percent of Americans hold crypto 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:21.800 as part of their personal portfolios. This is a few 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:26.080 percentage points shy of the of Americans who have ever 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:30.639 held crypto, according to research by NBC News. Respect to 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:34.320 the Hoddlers. The authors go on to explain that crypto 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:37.800 has the potential to quote reinforce US leadership in the 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:42.639 global financial system. However, they caution that these potential benefits 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:46.840 come with risks and cite terrors collapse in May as 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:51.480 an example, without naming any names. What's odd is the 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:55.879 author's claim that terrorist collapse caused six hundred billion dollars 0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:58.880 of damage to the crypto market in the months that followed. 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:03.360 This is highly debatable, as there were other macro factors 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.119 that caused the crypto market to go lower, namely the 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:10.280 stock market, which was also crashing around that time. In 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.760 any case, the authors touch on Biden's Executive Order about 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:17.320 cryptocurrency from back in March and explain that all the 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:22.000