AquariusRadar

Weather modification means somehow, on a local or regional basis, to dramatically change the character of weather. It's not raining- changed to-it's now raining. Weather moderation means modestly changing the existing weather for a better, more beneficial condition. Its raining too much in a flood prone area- changed to- some of the excess rain is translocated to a drier area. Many Western states now attempt weather modification with cloud seeding using silver iodide crystals or salt and smoke particles. The effectiveness is still under study. California, for example, uses cloud seeding in an attempt to increase snow in the Sierra Mountains. By definition, moisture in the atmosphere must be available and that moisture that comes down as rain is removed from the atmosphere. It's a dramatic change because without cloud seeding maybe that moisture would provide snow in the Utah mountains. In the West, stealing someone's water is bad juju . On the other hand, if it's raining so much that Western coastal areas are in flood, somehow moving that excess rain to the high mountains as snow is termed moderation. Most of the rain that floods the coast is lost to the sea. So moving some of that excess moisture (as rain-runoff) from the coast to the high mountains (as snow-stored) is beneficial. It's raining-Moderation applied-it's still raining. No moisture is stolen from the atmospheric river. The weather modification case is bad as moisture that could be shared or intercepted by other mountains of the West is "stolen" by the Sierra cloud seeding effort. The weather moderation case is beneficial in that it saves moisture that would otherwise flood to the sea and saves it as snow. My following post will discuss my moderation method and the evidence I have gathered to demonstrate that the method works.

The melting Greenland ice cap is caused by warming air over the arctic. The weight of the thick 10,000 ft ice pushes down on the interior of Greenland such that the mantle rock is depressed below sea level. Long term, as the ice melts sea level will increase as a result of the added water to the oceans, the mantle will rebound to some level above sea level adding to sea level rise. If a volcano is erupting in the interior, the melted ice water would be trapped in the interior depression created by the massive weight of ice. Any volcanic eruption on the coast or interior would create enormous blasts of steam through cracks in the ice and would be readily detected by satellite. Even if hot rocks of the mantle were melting ice, that doesn't explain the lakes of melted ice on the surface thousands of feet above the earth's mantle. Ice is a good insulator.

I posted the following on Swayseeker "heat air at ground and air will rise " thread; I think I should have posted my reply here...... I think Swayseeker has a plausible idea. The good example might be the Salton Sea and the peak of the Oronocino? Mountain just east of the sea. Swayseekers tunnel might be a plastic covered greenhouse funnel/tunnel/chimney that runs(10 miles ?) from the Sea surface to the peak (3500 ft?). With local heating of the sea, moisture laden air begins to rise and move through the chimney delta that may cover several acres immediately above the surface of the sea and into the chimney stack at say 10:am and continues until near 5:pm on a summers day. The plastic framed stack winds along the ground up the mountain ridgebacks and at some point (elevation 2000' ?)the temperature of the plastic walls of the chimney stack fall below the dew point(added now:dew point of the air/water vapor in the chimney/tower) and water vapor condenses on the walls and runs back down hill to some collection point. The latent heat released keeps the chimney draft working to pull in more moisture laden air at the sea level. The pathway of the chimney will have to be maintain uphill always to keep the draft from stalling out. That covered pathway, with a cool and moist environment, could make an interesting hiking path. Didn't Swayseeker talk about this in another thread? California needs every drop of fresh water. Wouldn't that tiny stream of water be useful now in this horrific drought.

I think Swayseeker has a plausible idea. The good example might be the Salton Sea and the peak of the Oronocino? Mountain just east of the sea. Swayseekers tunnel might be a plastic covered greenhouse funnel/tunnel/chimney that runs(10 miles ?) from the Sea surface to the peak (3500 ft?). With local heating of the sea, moisture laden air begins to rise and move through the chimney delta that may cover several acres immediately above the surface of the sea and into the chimney stack at say 10:am and continues until near 5:pm on a summers day. The plastic framed stack winds along the ground up the mountain ridgebacks and at some point (elevation 2000' ?)the temperature of the plastic walls of the chimney stack fall below the dew point and water vapor condenses on the walls and runs back down hill to some collection point. The latent heat released keeps the chimney draft working to pull in more moisture laden air at the sea level. The pathway of the chimney will have to be maintain uphill always to keep the draft from stalling out. That covered pathway, with a cool and moist environment, could make an interesting hiking path. Didn't Swayseeker talk about this in another thread?