Senior Economist editor Oliver Morton is calling on the United Nations secretary-general to fight climate change with geoengineering. Morton in his article, A place to talk about cooling the Earth, pointed to Operation Popeye — a top secret US Air Force military operation that used cloud seeding to throw the North Vietnamese military into confusion and destroy supply lines during the Vietnam war in the ‘70s. Though Operation Popeye was unsuccessful in Vietnam, Morton wants the UN to revisit the same tactic — this time to target greenhouse gas emissions. Morton's work has been widely published in scientific journals, including The American Scholar, for which he won the American Astronomical Society's award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism. His 2016 book, The Planet Remade, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.He even has an asteroid named after him: Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton..RFK Jr. pledges Trump alliance will stop 'chemtrail geoengineering' .A 1977 treaty demanded the technique not be used in warfare again after the Vietnam war. The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, known as ENMOD, bars militaries from deliberately using “environmental modification techniques (that cause) widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.”Morton points out that, except for a brief confer in 1992, no country has attempted to use ENMOD to harm an enemy nation. “The time has come for them to think about gathering again,” wrote Morton, asserting “environmental modification” and its “widespread, long-lasting and severe effects” are “one of the most striking features of 21st-century life.”.Tennessee passes law forbidding geoengineering.“The greenhouse-gas-driven climate crisis is not the sort of thing ENMOD was conceived to deal with,” wrote Morton. “But the treaty might still play a useful role in addressing it.”The Economist editor in his article simultaneously fretted that 2023 and 2024 are two of the hottest years on record — but 2025 is “set to be one of the coolest years for decades to come.”.‘CLIMATE ENGINEERING’: Environment Canada wants to save the climate by blocking the sun.As a solution, Morton recommends “solar engineering” as a “form of environmental modification.”“It would cool the planet by reflecting incoming sunlight back into space before it can do any warming,” he wrote. Solar engineering, as the Western Standard has earlier reported, is the injection of tiny particles containing silver iodide into the stratosphere."It sounds like the very definition of hubris,” lamented Morton. .‘ZIGZAG LINES’: US company modifies weather above Calgary.“It would have physical, chemical and biological effects well beyond those on temperature, changing the hydrological cycle, the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, even conceivably the rate of photosynthesis,” he admitted. “Its indirect effects on human affairs might be yet more worrying,” he wrote, musing any nation that would go through with such a technique would be a “country with the greatest appetite for such modification—unless others intervened by diplomacy or force.”He suggested many countries may “take this as an opportunity to ease off on emissions reduction, thus increasing the amount of solar geoengineering which might be called for, and doubling down on the risks that would come with it.”.WATCH: Smith says she's been told US Department of Defence spraying chemtrails in Alberta
