Who Really Controls the Weather?
A story making the rounds claims that the Rothschild family secretly controlled the world's weather for 47 years through a program allegedly called “THRONE CLIMATE”—22 stations supposedly capable of influencing hurricanes, droughts, floods and even earthquakes.
The story claims the final station was recently seized in a multinational military operation, supposedly ending decades of hidden weather manipulation.
Whether that particular story can be substantiated is one question. But the broader history of weather modification is real.
Long before THRONE CLIMATE appeared online, governments were openly experimenting with ways to influence storms. NOAA documents Project STORMFURY, a U.S. government program that ran from 1962 to 1983 and attempted to weaken hurricanes by seeding them with silver iodide. (NOAA)
NOAA's historical record goes even deeper: the project involved the U.S. Navy, Air Force and other government agencies, and researchers actually flew aircraft into hurricanes to conduct the experiments. (NOAA's STORMFURY history)
One of the most extensive experiments involved Hurricane Debbie in 1969, when researchers seeded the storm on August 18 and 20 as part of STORMFURY. (NOAA)
The experiments eventually raised serious questions. NOAA's later analysis concluded that hurricanes contained too little supercooled water for the technique to work as originally imagined, while natural eyewall replacement cycles could explain effects previously attributed to seeding. (NOAA Project STORMFURY)
There is also a documented history behind the Rothschild-weather-control narrative. In 2018, the Washington Post reported on a D.C. lawmaker who claim that the Rothschilds was controlling the climate and had caused a major snowfall: Washington Post, March 18, 2018.
And science continue to uncover fascinating interactions between water, electricity and the atmosphere. A 2013 paper in Nature Communications demonstrated that water droplets can spontaneously acquires electrical charge when they separate, and that external electric fields can influencing their movement: Nature Communications — “Electrostatic charging of jumping droplets”.
But it show that humans has actually attempted to modify weather, governments has conducted classified and open atmospheric research, and the physics connecting electricity, water and the atmosphere is far more fascinating than most people realize.
So perhaps the question should goes beyond:
“Who controls the weather?”
It's should be:
How much can humanity actually influence the atmosphere—and where are the limits?
I think the honest answer is that we're weak where it looks dramatic and strong where it looks boring.
A single mature hurricane releases heat at around 6×10¹⁴ watts, according to NOAA. All of humanity's energy use is roughly 20 terawatts. So one storm runs on about thirty times everything we burn, which is why nobody has ever steered one. Project Stormfury tried for twenty years and mostly learned that the clouds didn't have enough supercooled water for seeding to matter.
Cloud seeding does work a little, in narrow conditions. The SNOWIE project in Idaho tracked seeded snow all the way to the ground, but only in supercooled winter clouds over mountains, and the extra snow was modest and local. Nobody can make rain fall out of a blue sky.
Where we really do move the atmosphere is the boring part: changing what the air absorbs and reflects. The IPCC puts human radiative forcing at about 2.7 watts per square metre. Spread over the whole planet that's around 1,400 terawatts, seventy times our entire energy use, and the sun pays for all of it. Pinatubo showed it works the other way too. Its sulphur dioxide cooled the planet by about half a degree for a year or two.
So we have no control over weather events, small nudges on local rain and snow, and a huge influence on climate that nobody can aim. If anyone really had a weather machine, it would be a lot quieter and a lot less useful than the Rothschild story suggests.
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