Monthly Archives: August 2022

Weather, Climate and Electric Fields

Even after centuries of in-depth scientific investigation of electricity and meteorology, weather is still commonly explained as a phenomenon solely dependent on temperature, pressure and concentrations of water vapor (i.e. relative humidity). Discussion of the effects that separated electric charges (electric fields) have on the atmosphere, on the formation of clouds, and on water droplets/vesicles, is not really a part of common knowledge when it comes to weather and climate issues, with the exception of lightning. However, recent scientific discoveries about water have made it increasingly clear that the parameters of temperature, pressure, relative humidity and the dew point are dependent on differences in electric charges and the levels of electromagnetic energy absorbed and reflected in the atmosphere.

In previous posts I’ve mentioned the fourth phase of water topic, and in this longer talk, Dr. Gerald Pollack discusses the potential role that exclusion zone or “EZ” water has on various weather phenomena. While it is known to conventional science that the atmosphere carries a net positive charge and that the surface of the Earth carries a net negative charge, most scientists cannot clearly explain why these things have these charges and what the implications of these charges are for weather and climatic processes. Dr. Gerald Pollack and other courageous scientists go a step further in an attempt to explain and integrate these varied phenomena.

Clouds – Still Much to Investigate

The implications of the fourth phase of water discovery for weather and climate processes are enormous and are possibly one of the reasons why the discovery isn’t widely discussed among the mainstream science community. To investigate these implications, consider the following questions about cloud formation that are not easily explained by the conventional atmospheric physics paradigm.

  • How do different cloud types (e.g. cumulus, cumulonimbus or cirrus, etc.) suspend themselves above the ground surface at vastly different heights throughout the troposphere when each of them contains thousands to hundreds of thousands of tons of water droplets that are denser than the surrounding air?
Fair weather cumulus clouds in the center of the photo with characteristic dark, flat bases.
  • Why are the bases of many cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds almost completely flat and most of the clouds are around the same height above the ground surface, despite strong updrafts and downdrafts of wind including the updrafts that are presumed in the conventional atmospheric physics model to keep the clouds afloat?
Cumulus clouds over the Hudson River Valley. Note the long, dark, flat bases of the cumulus clouds in the distance over the Hudson River.
Fair weather cumulus clouds during mid-day with their characteristic dark, flat bases in the distance.
  • Why do the different types of clouds (e.g. cumulus, cirrus, etc.) stay in a relatively thin layer with other clouds of their type at vastly different heights throughout the troposphere despite the strong updrafts and downdrafts of wind?
A thin layer of cumulus clouds relatively close to the ground over Massachusetts.
Thunderstorm build up to the west, note the layers of different clouds: the cumulus clouds near the surface, the dark, towering cumulonimbus clouds in the middle and the very high cirrus clouds near the top of the image.

If clouds have net negative charge and the earth’s surface has a net negative charge, then does the repulsion between these like charges explain the ability for clouds full of electrically connected water droplets to stay suspended thousands of feet above the surface? This may explain why the base of these clouds remain relatively flat as the water droplets would be strongly repelled from moving below a certain height despite strong updrafts and downdrafts that would presumably make the base of the cloud very irregular in shape (which is certainly seen in cumulus clouds at heights higher than the regular base height). It is accepted even in the conventional paradigm that the bases of clouds are net negative and the tops are net positive so these speculations are not totally at odds with conventional understanding.

Top figure, a slide from Dr. Gerald Pollack’s presentation and the bottom figure is a slide taken from a thunderbolts project presentation. The Earth’s surface has a net negative charge and the atmosphere has a net positive charge, leading to an electric field of about +100 volts per meter near the surface.

Weather Characteristics – What is Fundamental?

The parameters that describe atmospheric conditions including temperature, air pressure and the dew point may be affected by the changing charge densities in the atmosphere and the changes in the Earth’s electric field. Many atmospheric physics papers suggest that changes in temperature, pressure and water vapor affect the Earth’s electric field, but given the implications of the forth phase of water discovery, it may be more of the other way around. Consider how on a fair weather day, the common fair weather cumulus clouds do not form in earnest until late morning. This is exactly when the electric field strength (voltage) is ramping up, positive charges in the atmosphere increase, now available to connect water droplets in air together by the like-likes-like mechanism. As the sun sets, the electric field dies down and then these numerous cumulus clouds all dissipate (see graphs below, note how the rapid ramping up of the electric field occurs with the slower temperature rise in the morning). As more scientists are becoming aware that the water droplets/vesicles in the air have net electric charge instead of being more or less electrically neutral as they are assumed to be in the mechanical model of the current atmospheric physics paradigm, the direction of research will move towards investigating the electrical side of these meteorological enigmas.

The Earth’s electric field, temperature and relative humidity over the course of 24 hours in India, figure taken from Valeo, V., and P. V. Koparkar. “A Preliminary Study of Fair-Weather Atmospheric Electric Field at a High Altitude Station (Shillong) 25 N, 91 E.” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research 14.7 (2019): 1652-1657.

Climate Change – Misguided Focus on Greenhouse Gases

In this short talk by former electrical engineering professor Dr. Donald Scott, he explains how high level winds in the upper atmosphere above the Earth’s north and south poles are being affected by Birkeland currents (long currents emanating from the Sun carrying electric charges through space). This process is evidenced by satellite data collected over the years and currently displayed on the earth.nullschool.net website and of course by the magnificent auroral displays at both poles.

High level winds at a height of approximately 35 kilometers (depicted with the magenta color) over Antarctica on July 8, 2022, a few weeks after the summer solstice. Image courtesy of the earth.nullschool.net website.

Birkeland currents are carrying positive and negative charges both into and out of the Earth’s poles depending on the time of year, as explained in detail in the talk. These currents imply that large amounts of energy are entering and leaving the poles at certain times of the year. Anything that would interfere with these Birkeland currents, say manipulation of the ionosphere or magnetosphere either unintentionally or intentionally, for example, would then in turn affect the high level polar winds and then the jet streams below them, the very jet streams that steer large amounts of moisture to different areas of Earth.

Regarding the unintentional manipulation of the ionosphere, near the end of Dr. Robert Becker’s book, The Body Electric, he mentioned that in the early 1980s two weather satellites, Ariel 3 and 4, observed that an enormous amount of power line harmonic resonance (a form of electrosmog from the power grid) over North America had created a permanent duct from the magnetosphere down into the upper atmosphere, resulting in a continuous release of ions and energy over the whole continent. This additional energy was speculated to have caused an increase in severe weather (e.g. thunderstorms, tornadoes) over the Midwest of the USA over the course of the 20th century. In addition, I bring up the intentional manipulation of the ionosphere because it is plausible that the various militaries of the world are actually experimenting with technologies that do exactly this as evidenced by patent US5041834A titled, “Artificial ionospheric mirror composed of a plasma layer which can be tilted” and patent US4686605A titled “Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere.” Indeed, even a USA Air Force administrator for science admitted that the Air Force had “moved on to other ways of managing the ionosphere” after ending the High Frequency Auroral Research Project (HAARP) program in the early 2010s (see this government commission video at the 3:10 mark).

Considering the problems with the current atmospheric physics paradigm discussed above, it seems misguided for governments and the public in general to focus solely on cutting greenhouse gas emissions while ignoring the fourth phase of water discovery, electric charges, electrosmog and the possible intentional manipulation of the atmosphere by the military-industrial complex. I’ll finish my discussion here as many other websites speculate about potential or ongoing geoengineering programs. All in all, the focus of the climate issue should focus to restoring the severely disrupted water cycle and regenerating ecosystems as water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas and some misguided carbon emission cutting policies are leading to ecosystem destruction.

Approaching thunderstorm from the southwest at sunset.