Debunking the Climate Emergency Narrative and Colorado’s Weather Modification Program

On this Friday, September 1, 2023 broadcast, Kim Monson explores two distinct but related topics: Colorado’s little-known weather modification program with Andrew Rickert from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and the debunking of climate emergency claims with Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore. The episode also marks Producer Steve’s final day before retirement after four and a half years with the show. Exposing the Climate Narrative Fabrication Start listening at 69:15 – Hour 2 Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and author of “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom,” dismantles the climate emergency narrative with scientific precision. Moore points out that Earth is currently in a 50-million-year cooling period and that the modern warm period began around 1600 at the peak of the Little Ice Age. The approximately one degree Celsius warming since then represents natural climate variation, not a crisis. Moore argues that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but the foundation of all life on Earth. Plants use CO2 to build themselves, and all carbon-based life forms ultimately derive their carbon from atmospheric CO2. He criticizes the characterization of CO2 as pollution, noting that when fossil fuels are burned, they simply release carbon that was originally captured from the atmosphere by ancient plants. The discussion addresses the Lahaina fire tragedy, with Moore attributing it to downed power lines and poor land management rather than climate change. He emphasizes that climate cannot start fires, noting that the Camp Fire in California was definitively caused by PG&E power lines. Moore criticizes the “green” movement for conflating weather events with long-term climate trends and for promoting policies that would eliminate over 80% of global energy supply. “So carbon dioxide is actually the basis of life. It is not a poison like they are telling us. They call it a pollutant now when it is the basis of life.” Patrick Moore, Author and Former Greenpeace Director Colorado’s Cloud Seeding Operations Start listening at 31:17 – Hour 1 Andrew Rickert, program manager for Colorado’s Weather Modification Program, reveals that Colorado has been experimenting with weather modification since the early 1970s. The program uses silver iodide sprayed across propane flames to create ice crystals in clouds, adding an estimated 5 to 12 percent additional snow water equivalent to the state’s snowpack. Rickert explains that Colorado operates seven permitted ground-based programs and one aerial program, with approximately 72 manual generators and 23 remote generators positioned strategically across the state. The program operates from November 1st to April 15th, specifically targeting winter storms to augment water supplies for the drought-stricken West. Lower basin states including New Mexico, California, and Nevada contribute $500,000 annually to bolster Colorado’s efforts, recognizing the importance of Colorado River Basin snowpack. The program includes extensive safety protocols. Operators monitor storm characteristics including wind speed, direction, temperature, and the presence of super-cooled liquid water before initiating seeding operations. Rickert emphasizes they avoid seeding naturally efficient storms and suspend operations when conditions could cause blizzards, flooding, or avalanches. “We tend to like to say that we can add 5 to 12 percent of additional SWE, snow water equivalent, into the snowpack. So if we have a storm that’s coming through that’s going to produce 10 inches of snow by itself, just naturally,...