FW: New Op-Ed: America Must Lead on Atmospheric Safety
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From: Kelly Wanser <kwa...@silverlining.ngo>
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2025 7:47 AM
To: rob...@rtulip.net
Subject: New Op-Ed: America Must Lead on Atmospheric Safety
Dear Colleague,
I am writing to share a new op-ed, published Saturday in The Hill, on emerging atmospheric interventions and the need for monitoring, modeling and science to ensure safety and security.
Recent developments, including Stardust Solutions' unprecedented $60 million funding round and China's expansion to 40,000 personnel working in weather modification, are occurring precisely as U.S. stratospheric monitoring capabilities are deteriorating.
Atmospheric observation deserves treatment as critical infrastructure, particularly given the national security and economic implications of weather and climate interventions. In the piece, we acknowledge both legitimate public concerns about atmospheric activities and the strategic risks inherent in our current observation gaps.
The piece is available here. You can also read SilverLining’s statement on Stardust’s funding announcement here.
I hope you enjoy the piece, and welcome your thoughts and reactions, including on LinkedIn.
The potential for science, data and effective regulation to improve atmospheric safety is continuously demonstrated by the world’s most effective environmental treaty, the Montreal Protocol, whose meeting I attended this month. It included all countries and reached a unanimous decision on reduction of a new powerful ozone depleting and warming substance, HF23. This treaty holds promise for helping the world monitor and regulate new emissions in the stratosphere. To learn more, read our Paper Cuts summary of a recent paper or view our recent webinar.
You are also invited to join us on December 11 for a webinar on the monitoring and security of the stratosphere featuring Rob McHenry, Executive in Residence at SilverLining, and other experts. Register here.
Best regards,
Kelly
The atmosphere is becoming a battleground. America must lead on safety.
Kelly Wanser, opinion contributor
I understand why millions of Americans look up at the sky with concern. Videos of unusual cloud formations circulate on social media, accompanied by questions about "chemtrails" and secret weather modification programs.
While concerns often reflect misunderstandings about ordinary aircraft contrails and natural atmospheric phenomena, the underlying instinct — that something may be happening in our atmosphere that we don’t know enough about — is not exactly wrong.
Weather and climate modification are not conspiracy theories. They are real, expanding capabilities that demand public attention and government action.
The question is whether the United States will lead in ensuring they emerge in the world safely and transparently or whether we will cede this emerging strategic domain to private interests and foreign competitors.
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