Michelle Jones

Happy wife, mother, & grandmother.

[Rants From Alaska @AlaskanRants]

A California drone company already seeded clouds over the Kenai this summer. Most of us found out after the flights were done. Now the CEO is saying Alaska stays in the pipeline this winter, with Kenai and Chugach as the test bed for what they call glacier restoration through artificial snowfall.

That is the part that should make people sit up.

Rainmaker, run by Augustus Doricko, flew two Elijah drones over the Kenai Peninsula late August 22 into August 23. They lit 19 silver iodide flares and put about 374 grams of material into cold clouds between roughly 11,700 and 14,000 feet.

Their own report says the PAHG NEXRAD radar then showed seven seeding signatures. From those they calculated a mean of 57 acre-feet of extra precipitation, which they rounded to about 19 million gallons in three hours.

They published the paper fast and called it the first time a private company had provably made precipitation in Alaska. Fair enough that they put numbers on the table.

The catch is in their own wording. Those radar signatures were isolated from a storm that was already producing natural precipitation.

The weather community keeps pointing out that the 19 million gallon figure sits on model assumptions, not a rain gauge sitting on the ground measuring only the seeded stuff. Doricko himself has said the number comes with caveats.

That summer test was billed as R&D. Get the drones, the targeting, and the radar validation sharper before the commercial season in the Lower 48.

Then Doricko followed up in public: Alaska remains central. They plan small operations here this winter. The long-term pitch is man-made snowfall to protect and rebuild glaciers. The short-term pitch is more water for the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake.

Local people heard a different story. This is wild salmon country. Kenai and Chugach drainages feed streams that raise Chinook and coho.

Silver iodide is classified as very toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects. Operational studies usually find tiny concentrations after seeding, parts per trillion. That does not automatically make it a non-issue when you are talking about cold, soft, low-ionic freshwater that salmon use as nursery water. Fisheries folks want that debate in the open, not after the fact the deed is done.

Rainmaker says it talked to Alaska DNR, CIRI, and NNAI and got permission for the research sites near Ninilchik and Homer. Doricko later admitted they should have reached more state officials and legislators first. He posted his letter to Schwanke. That is more than some companies bother to do. It is still not the same as the public and the Legislature knowing before freeze-up.

Here is the regulatory hole. Neither DEC nor ADF&G has put out an official statement on whether these flights needed non-point source water discharge permits or environmental filings. Thats the growing read among local advocates is that the state got surprised by operations that ran on federal FAA aviation waivers and a hazardous-materials exemption for the flares. NOAA wants weather-modification reports. It does not really regulate the seeding itself. That split is how you end up with drones over the Kenai and Juneau finding out on social media.

Cloud seeding is not new. GE started it in the 1940s. Western states already use it. Rainmaker’s claim is that drones plus radar let them measure the extra water instead of just hoping. That part is interesting. But… Treating the Kenai and Chugach as a convenient year-round lab because the clouds stay cold enough in summer is a different proposition.

We do not have a Great Salt Lake problem. We have glaciers, salmon, and people who live under the weather they want to tweak.

Doricko’s line is they will make winter produce more snow and build glaciers back. The local demand is simpler. If they are coming back this winter, the Legislature should have the argument before the ground freezes, not after the next set of flares is already in the air.

[Rants From Alaska @AlaskanRants]

Our Sky. Our Rain. Our Consent.
A Hump Day Rant

@RainmakerCorp They did not ask us.
That is the whole story. A company out of El Segundo flew drones over the Kenai, lit silver iodide flares in our clouds, then told the world they made 19 million gallons of rain in three hours.

They called it research when locals asked why. They called it proof when the press release went out.

So which one is it⁉️

Because here’s the thing first it was just drones, flight systems, and atmospheric data on the Kenai this summer. Not commercial. Not cloud seeding. Just testing hardware, they said.

Then the CEO posted that Rainmaker just made about 19 million gallons of water over Alaska in three hours. First company, he said, to provably produce precipitation here. Linked a white paper.

Talked about restoring glaciers with man-made snow. Talked about sending “new water” to the Colorado River and the Great Salt Lake next.

You do not get to tell Alaskans you’re only testing hardware, then run a victory lap about dumping silver iodide into our clouds and calling the result “net-new water.” That is not a wording slip. That is two stories for two audiences.

Here’s what they actually did, by their own writeup: two Elijah drones, seven coordinated seeding missions on August 23, nineteen silver iodide flares, about 374 grams of AgI into supercooled cloud between roughly 3.5 and 4.3 kilometers.

They pointed at seven radar “seeding signatures” on the Kenai NEXRAD and estimated a mean of 57.6 acre-feet.

Call it 19 million gallons if you like their math. Read that again Alaska was the demo. The customers are somewhere else. We get the experiment. They get the pitch deck.

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[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@japan_nobunaga It’s always my husband.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@JackStr42679640 It was a civil lawsuit, not federal.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@WHLeavitt @LeaderJohnThune All of the above

[Ken Blackwell @kenblackwell]

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.

Let that number sit with you.

Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.

What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.

While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.

He doesn’t argue feelings.

He measures results.

He isn’t selling anything.

His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Sit with that, too.

Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.

Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.

Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:

“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”

“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”

That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.

The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.

Sowell says it plain:

“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”

The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.

Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:

“Stay away from the race hustlers.”

“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”

That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.

Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.

Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.

What are the incentives?

Who actually benefits from this policy?

What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?

Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.

The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.

He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.

Ninety-five years of telling the truth.

Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@Ric_RTP @dojphofficial

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@ValerieAnne1970 Except if people don’t realize they’ve been bitten the next time they consume meat, they can & have died. Criminal, absolutely criminal.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

This is so on point. Saving this for the next time, Hakeem calls conservatives extremists.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@stats_feed The Bible

[Shannon Joy @ShannonJoyRadio]

🚨URGENT situation in Charlotte, NC ... please share with everyone you know to bring attention to this horrifying story.

A little boy named Judah could be medically kidnapped from his family after St. Jude Affiliate Clinic in Charlotte, NC accused them of medical “non-compliance” with absolutely no evidence in relation to his cancer treatments. The hospital referred them to CPS and has fired them as patients, putting the family in an absolutely desperate situation.

In this case, Judah (because of complimentary holistic supplementation) has been in remission for leukemia for 21 months and is so healthy that the treatment center accused his parents of not administering oral chemotherapy - with absolutely no cause or evidence.

Now, because he has no doctor to oversee his remaining treatments, the family will be 'out of compliance' and risk losing Judah to the state!

This family is being terrorized and traumatized by the medical industrial complex ... WATCH ---->

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@MdBreathe Done! Thanks for sharing.

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

This is what Bill Gates is coating your produce with. 😳

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Disturbing new test results from Moms Across America show high levels of glyphosate found in ORGANIC cereal in America

90% of cereals tested were posting for glyphosate

6 out of 7 boxes of organic cereals were all positive for glyphosate

Nothing is organic. The FDA allows this

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@elonmusk My vote is to wait and see how the BBB actually plays out. Give it a little time. See if the economic changes make a dent in either deficit spending or debt reduction.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@DonaldJTrumpJr @DonaldJTrumpJr Please tell me they taking out the part about selling off millions of acres of public lands.

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@MdBreathe Unfortunately for this test you have to live within driving distance to a Labcorp lab for the blood draw. Do you know if a test exists that you can do from home & mail in?

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

@VigilantFox I feel like we’ve already made a few movies about how wrong this can go…

[Michelle Jones @MLJONES2020]

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