Last Updated on July 11, 2025
Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s running mate, shares whistleblower details exposing ongoing U.S. geoengineering efforts rebranded to evade scrutiny, despite Trump’s 2020 halt directive.
Why it matters: These programs, involving solar radiation modification and aerosol injections, could pose health risks like aluminum-linked Alzheimer’s while manipulating weather without public consent, affecting global climate and sovereignty.
Driving the news: Shanahan posted a detailed thread on X, citing a DoD and NOAA insider who provided a “roadmap” to federal geoengineering, including rebranded grants and historical docs showing decades of weather warfare research.
- UCAR has received over $230 million in federal awards for stratospheric aerosol studies, per grant data.
- Agencies like NOAA, NASA, and DOE continue SRM under new labels, as outlined in the 2023 Biden-Harris SRM Report.
- Fossil fuel giants and foundations like Bill Gates’ FICER fund academics pushing geoengineering, with expert David Keith admitting potential annual deaths in thousands.
Catch up quick: Geoengineering, once called weather modification, dates back to 1950s NSF-funded cloud seeding. A 1964 Senate hearing designated NSF as lead agency, comparing its power to atomic energy. By 1979, NOAA documented nearly 100 projects, from hurricane control to fog dispersal, in its Weather Modification report.
The intrigue: A 1974 Senate testimony by Dr. Gordon MacDonald warned of electromagnetic frequencies altering brain activity for psychological warfare, part of broader geophysical tools discussed in classified hearings.
Between the lines: Rebranding SRM to “climate intervention” shields programs from FOIA and oversight, allowing billions in funding from taxpayers, industry, and elites while denying public health risks like aluminum exposure linked to dementia in a 2020 Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease review.
What they’re saying:
- “These semantic shifts aren’t scientific; they’re strategic… designed to obfuscate the truth,” Nicole Shanahan wrote on X, highlighting evasion tactics.
- “Weather manipulation, not the ICBM, would be the ultimate weapon,” Sen. Clinton Anderson recalled from Dr. John von Neumann in the 1964 hearing, underscoring military ambitions.
The bottom line: Shanahan urges a Trump executive order banning geoengineering, congressional probes, and a constitutional amendment for unaltered weather, framing it as a human rights issue demanding transparency.
