My Love of Statistics Apparently Makes Me a "Conspiracy Theorist" and I'm More than Okay with That

"Seems like you need to educate yourself about weather and climate," says an online stranger to me, after I point out that Weather Modification and Geoengineering are very REAL phenomena being practiced all over the world.

The irony here is that I am likely more educated than this internet stranger on these particular topics. My mind has never been blown quite as hard as when I learned about the future of Geoengineering, and the shocking ways in which facts are being turned into fiction in this day and age.

The difference between a Bachelor's of Science in Geography and a Bachelor's of Art in Geography was solely in the Statistics courses required for the Bachelor's of Science. I gladly chose to take those statistics courses, "for science!"

Fully prepared to suffer through these courses, I had no idea that I was the type of dweeb who would downright LOVE statistics! Each new chapter in the textbook provided me a new way of viewing the world, especially through the lens of science, research, and the news. As a natural skeptic, these statistics courses provided me the knowledge I had previously been missing in order to make properly-informed decisions about the world.

The courses I took included:

-Statistics 101

-Statistics for Geography

-Statistics for Population

-Geographic Research Methods

The professors and textbooks for these courses outlined the many ways in which data are manipulated to create statistical falsehoods, typically utilized to mislead a casual observer into believing the falsehood and acting in a desired way as a result. I also had the pleasure of applying these statistics skills to research projects in courses such as Global Regional Climate, Global Change, Geography & Urban Planning, and several GIS courses.

After all this, here I am proudly wearing the title of "Conspiracy Theorist" in contrast to the unknowing casual observer, and I'll share a bit about why that is.

1. Statistics wording is easily manipulated to twist or even reverse the truth.

There are many examples of results being either discarded or altered when they fail to show the outcome desired by stakeholders. Selective reporting focuses on the desired results and omits inconvenient truths about the data.

2. Studies can be arranged and carried out in a way that seeks a desired outcome rather than a truthful outcome.

   Flawed or poor quality data that are used will yield flawed results. From small sample sizes to manufactured outcomes, the design of experiments can be manipulated to favor a desired result. False causality can be easily portrayed as an ultimate truth. Data dredging involves seeking a desired result from a large selection of data.

   
   
   
   

3. Studies that yield an undesirable result for stakeholders will be shared with the public using an altered focus to redirect attention from the truthful outcome to a minor --and potentially false -- trend in the data instead.

   With the use of data dredging, large trends in data can be ignored, and particular trends can be manufactured using carefully-selected data. Cherry-picking is a tactic used by researchers to omit certain unfavorable trends and only highlight the desired data and results.

   
   

4. The source for the data may specialize in the topic, but may not be educated in Statistics.

   
   
   
   

5. The data quality is not ideal or is flawed.

As far as Geoengineering and Weather Modification, what I have found is a complete lack of available data, and a huge gap in the logic applied to these topics. I am only left to believe that this lack of data is intentional, so that blame cannot be placed on the programs if and when things go awry.

Multiple of my college course textbooks covered the topics of Weather Modification and Geoengineering. In fact, I had to write a paper on my opinion about Geoengineering, and it was my opinion that we should NOT be further affecting the climate, so that we may avoid unintended consequences that may worsen the current condition of the already-compromised climate. The textbooks and articles we read dictated that Geoengineering would be a last-ditch effort to save the climate from falling out of its current equilibrium. Nobody in my class advocated FOR the use of Geoengineering even in such efforts, as it carries more risks than benefits to fill our atmosphere with metallic nanoparticles and other chemicals.

If humans are changing the climate, how are we supposed to tease apart climate change that results from greenhouse gases from climate change that results from chemical interference? The data for both are intermingled and virtually indistinguishable.

Since these climate-manipulation programs are taking place, we can no longer blame only mother nature or greenhouse gases for extreme weather events. When fire insurance and flood insurance get cancelled in the most vulnerable areas, who then will pay for repairs to a moldy house that got flooded as a result of cloud-seeding, as seen in Dubai? Insurance companies can and have ensured that they will not be the ones to do so, and the responsibility will lie on the property owners rather than those who are manipulating the weather.

It is this lack of data or intermingled data that will serve to protect those who are tinkering with our climate and weather, no matter the devastating consequences. On top of this hidden truth, the powers that be have successfully convinced a majority of the population that these programs do not exist in the first place.

Each time we have extreme weather, anthropogenic climate change is blamed. We must now account for Geoengineering and Weather Modification in our climate change data, to determine whether these programs ultimately do more harm than good. If these interventions turn out to be the right answer to Climate Change, I might be more on board with the chemical poisoning of our atmosphere and environment that results from it. However, as of now we are not provided the opportunity to observe such data as it is not available.

Weather modification programs date back to the Vietnam War and have been used ever since. Immediately after Cloud-Seeding programs began in Lake Tahoe in the 80's, a new epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (formerly known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) hit Lake Tahoe immediately after. At the time, the local newspaper even featured both topics on the same page:

As a lover of statistics, I am well aware that correlation does not equal causation. However, several people held on to the articles in these papers as a result of their skepticism of the new cloud-seeding operations, and in an effort to monitor the possible consequences. Some believe that this cloud-seeding resulted in a record Winter in that area:

Currently, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a silent pandemic with millions of bedridden sufferers unable to determine the cause of their illness. A complete lack of viable research has left these people in the dust, with no cause for the illness found to this day.

Come to think of it, with chronic and autoimmune illnesses on the rise, it is perplexing that limited-or-no health and environmental studies have been performed to test the consequences of pumping metals like Silver Iodide into the air.

This connection simply wouldn't matter to healthy individuals or to those who do not believe in Geoengineering or Weather Modification in the first place. It must be nice to be so blissfully ignorant, and at times I truly wish that I was unaware of all this as well.

Shameless Admission That Taxpayer Money Is Being Used to Poison Everyone and Steal Water Resources

https://gazette.com/news/environment/cloud-seeding-effort-focuses-on-front-range-eastern-colorado-rivers/article_e3a8e49a-eef5-11ef-a269-032d71360fd1.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawI2jLdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHRtrHeZI3eqSBUrP-pDFTTFEagL_xNDIc2IeQPM_UGUX2leP_AR8MBzkOA_aem_96uw8tt3KrsiM4_p0Gxxhg

"Toying with Mother Nature isn’t as scary as it sounds in the context of cloud seeding," says the first line of this article, published on March 3, 2025 by Natasha Lynn in Colorado.

If we experience abnormally dry Summers in Virginia, could it be as a result of the moisture being stolen by someone upwind? Or could weather modification be occurring in Virginia and neighboring states, resulting in the extreme weather events we've been experiencing in recent years?

Did half of Floyd lose electricity and have to throw away all the condiments in our fridges as a result of Mother Nature, or as a result of adulterated complex weather systems?

If metallic nanoparticles are being released into our atmosphere, won't they be rained down into our environment and into our gardens? Does this pollution affect the soil biome, and subsequently the air around us?

We aren't yet sure who gave the green light for this article to be published, since it is nearly the first of its kind to enter the public eye on social media. Most importantly, we aren't sure why the article remains posted despite the 6.8K (and rising) negative comments showing disapproval for such weather-altering operations.

This article claims that Silver Iodide poses "no known" risks to the environment or human health, due to the fact that the particles are released in low concentrations.

Apparently gravity no longer exists, according to the line of logic used to justify spraying chemicals into the air. The well-established concepts of bioaccumulation and biopersistence have been thrown to the wind along with this plume of toxic chemicals.

Hi. Welcome to the world of weather manipulation. Take a seat, and allow me to walk you through my years of research into this topic, which began when I was an undergrad at Arizona State University, studying for my Bachelor's of Science in Geography, in addition to my compendium of evidence that such operations contribute to human illness and environmental destruction.

Back in the 80's in a popular ski town called Lake Tahoe, a Nuclear Launch Specialist named Erik Johnson watched closely as low-flying airplanes seeded Silver Iodide over the lake and mountains, in hopes of creating more snow for their booming ski tourism industry.

When the first outbreak of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (formerly known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) occurred in the Lake Tahoe area, Erik seemed to be the only one putting 2 and 2 together. Toxic algae blooms occurred in the lake, and even healthy people were coming down sick with this mystery illness that remains "unsolved" to this day.

We may not receive a high enough inoculum of Silver Iodide from a single weather modification event, but over time these particles accumulate in our environments -- particularly in waterways.

My one blog reader knows by now that we frequently discuss the digestion of these toxins by microbes (especially fungi) in the soil, and how they provide anthropogenic pollution a second opportunity to enter the human body and cause illness. This is especially the case for metallic nanoparticles such as Silver Iodide, since mold can digest, metabolize, and mobilize these particles, ultimately releasing them back into the air along with spores and other metabolites.

What we have here is a classic case of non-consideration of the soil life being affected by and Uno-Reversing our pollution back at us.

"No known" hazard to environmental and human health is now a euphamism for "turning a blind eye" to the effects of something, so that it cannot be scientifically proven until 50 years later, such as the case with RoundUp.

I barely talk about the lack of logic that this weather modification thrives on, since plenty of other people are battling it out for the sake of the environment. How can any weather event be blamed on mother nature when operations like this are occurring all around us? Instead I choose to selfishly focus on the part of this that affects me personally -- and thousands of people I know who are aware that their chronic illness stems from pollution such as this.

The editor of the Gazette, Jerry, says that they are open to receiving comment and sources from the opposing viewpoints, and that the article will remain up despite the uproar of negative feedback in the comments. The Gazette is currently considering whether to post again about weather modification.

We are only left to wonder how Natasha Lynn lays her head on the pillow at night after seeing the comments on her article.

Will another article like this be posted soon? Is this a trickle truth method of releasing this information slowly to the public? We await comment from the Gazette and from the author of this article to shed light on the motivations and revel in the aftermath of this article.

We Share the Air

I am unable to overcome the shock of learning that VDOT is aware their pesticides drift and make people sick up to 10 miles away. Is anywhere truly safe? Even if an entire neighborhood hypothetically becomes a Spray-Free Zone, its residents are still exposed to pesticide drift from any upwind direction.

Does anybody else remember when the SWVA skies were gray with wildfire smoke that blew in from the West Coast wildfires? At that time, some of my friends and clients were wearing masks and staying indoors to evade the inevitable breathing problems and dangers posed by this plume of smoke.

It is reasonable to assume that other forms of pollution act similarly and travel long distances, even though they cannot be seen or smelled. Have you ever smelled your neighbor's laundry vent when you were downwind? Have you ever inhaled entirely too much secondhand cigarette smoke at a concert or other public location?

When I was a small child -- about the age of 7 -- I had severe depression and I could not figure out why. I specifically recall being in my room and having an extraordinary thought: What if there is something invisible in the air around me that we do not know about yet which is causing me to feel this way?

In recent years, it has come to light that scientists and doctors do not actually know what causes depression, or why medications like SSRI's work to relieve it. The question I asked myself as a 7-year old has actually turned out to be a valid scientific hypothesis yet to be disproven. In fact, this hypothesis has been proven a thousand times over, with the current trend in disease being a mainly location-based phenomenon. Pollution from industry and agriculture create clear trends in the data that show modern-day diseases are mostly location-based.

This gives new meaning to the phrase "pick your poison." If you want cancer, move close to a place where plastics are manufactured. If you want Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, move to the countryside near a RoundUp-Ready monoculture site.

If we stick to scientific logic, we must concede that location plays the most important role in disease, and that tools like GIS will be invaluable in the search for answers to current gaps in data.

However, it may become tedious to weed out the environmental factors that contribute to human health outcomes, considering that we share the air. Water sources and food sources tend to be more localized factors unique to each area. Air, on the other hand, flows across countries and oceans in ways that are difficult to predict. We do not yet realize the ways in which we are like corals existing in an acidifying ocean.

My 7-year old self was able to hypothesize something that mainstream medicine is yet to factor into its dogma. Outdoor air may no longer be the "fresh air" that we once used to heal our bodies and souls. The entire paradigm of science must shift to accommodate the true reality of anthropogenic pollution.

It is for these reasons that I aim to keep the spraying as far from Floyd as we are able to accomplish. We live in this pastoral paradise for its natural beauty and fresh, mountain air. It would take nation-wide or worldwide action to fully protect Floyd's soils, waters, people, and air.

Sources:

Chandran A, Roy P. Applications of geographical information system and spatial analysis in Indian health research: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Nov 21;24(1):1448. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11837-9. PMID: 39574096; PMCID: PMC11580228. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11580228/