Normalization of the Abnormal: Life Under the Smokescreen

The beginnings of a good thread here, spurred by this report:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

"It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table..."

wintler2: ...

Except of course approaches like reducing GHG pollution emissions or making polluters pay for impacts, both of which fail the "way of life not up for negotiation" test. Geoengineering is the logical conclusion of an insane culture...

There's the old smoke and mirrors story here.

This comment by Hugh is appropriate and correct, I think:

Senate Bill 517 in 2005, the Weather Modification bill, was just paperwork for the cloud-seeding programs going on since the early 1990s.

The actual response to global warming has been an effort to increase cloud cover which is ongoing.

This has not been overtly announced to prevent spooking the herd.
But lots of disinfo has been put out by Scott Stevens, Exxon-Mobil, and other USG assets to give the masses a clue without evoking outrage and panic.

Now, this sounds absurd, and the moreso when you read all the ridiculous claims associated with the people alarmed over contrails in the sky. Which is exactly what a good Company disinformation op would sound like, isn't it?

Uncle $cam closes this with an observation:

...Interesting to me, are the things we've been doing all along, where each Admin, simply brings into the awareness things we have covertly been doing for years. For example, Bush/Cheney torture; The Normalization of War, poverty, corruption the normalization of the subversion of the Constitution, etc...

Quote:

Edward S. Herman's landmark essay, "The Banality of Evil," has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization,'" wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable, with the direct brutalizing and killing done by one set of individuals ... others working on improving technology (a better crematory gas, a longer burning and more adhesive napalm, bomb fragments that penetrate flesh in hard-to-trace patterns). It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for the general public."