

The 60th Annual Climate Change Conference took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from September 5-7, 2007. More than 2,500 representatives from over 80 countries attended the roundtables, panels, and workshops during the 3-Day event. The Conference reviewed the scientific evidence on climate change, including its consequences on indigenous peoples, water security, land use, and the politics of energy. Organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) in collaboration with the NGO/DPI Executive


The DPI/NGO Conference was the main NGO event of the year at the United Nations. This historic Conference focused on the growing concern associated with climate change and its profound and decisive impact on human well-being. Rosalindâ€™s presentation was on climate change associated with man-made clouds and how these clouds exacerbate

The following speech was given by Rosalind Peterson on September 6th, 2007: â€œGood afternoon Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a pleasure and a great honor to be here with you today. One of the things I would like to say is that we are in a global drumbeat, right at the moment, talking about climate change and global warming. The word â€œmitigationâ€ without definition of the type of mitigation proposed, is heard in speeches and presentations. Many â€œmitigationâ€ proposals would place particulates or chemicals into our atmosphere without public,
Congressional, or agriculture oversight of any kind being in place. If you use various mitigation programs will we be trading one problem for another without considering the consequences to our drinking water, soil, trees, or agriculture as a whole? Will we be railroaded into questionable schemes by the drumbeat of fear that states: â€œWe must do something now!â€


3) â€œMitigationâ€
The â€œmitigationâ€ drumbeat heard everywhere sounds impressive. However, these undefined measures may be detrimental to human health, crop production, soils, and drinking water supplies. It is now necessary to define what is meant by mitigation and to place all of these measures under congressional, agriculture, and pubic oversight. We do not want to place ourselves in the position of making huge mistakes by trading one pollution problem for another more serious problem. The following example reflects a â€œmonetary mitigationâ€ agreement that allows polluters to purchase the ability to pollute more:

4) Geoengineering Schemes
thrive they need direct sunlight. A recent corn crop study at the University of Illinois shows that increased cloud cover reduces corn crop production while direct sunlight increases production. Photosynthesis is the process whe re plants and trees gain the energy to grow and produce crops. If we â€œmitigateâ€ to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, negatively affecting crop production not only in the United States but worldwide, we could put the world in a food shortage crisis. Two experiments are now believed to be reducing crop

5) Man-made Clouds
NASA noted in an October 2005 newsletter, and from other study results, notes that increasingly persistent contrails are turning into man-made clouds that are â€œâ€¦trapping warmth in the atmosphere and exacerbating global warmingâ€¦â€ NASA goes on to note that: â€œâ€¦Any increase in global cloud cover will contribute to long-term changes in Earthâ€™s climate.
Likewise, any change in Earthâ€™s climate may have effects on natural resourcesâ€¦â€
(The Power Point Presentation begins at this point in Rosalindâ€™s presentation.) Jets leaving persistent jet contrails are changing our climate to the degree that one jet leaving a persistent jet contrail has the following affect according to NASAâ€™s Patrick Minnis (February 2007): â€œâ€¦We had found that (jet) contrails were producing much more cloud cover than we ever thought they did. This one particular aircraft produced a contrail that covered an area of four thousand
square kilometers and lingered for six hours. But we also found that there were contrails covering much larger areas and lasting more than twenty hours…â€ Dr. Wayne Evans, Atmospheric Scientist: â€œâ€¦You see the two contrails formingâ€¦cirrus cloudsâ€¦ While most natural
clouds actually reflect more sunlight back into space than they supply infrared heat energy towards the earth. However, cirrus clouds are different. They actually radiate more heat energy than they reflect solar energy back into space. Therefore, cirrus clouds contribute to global warming…â€ The picture up on the screen shows just one jet leaving a persistent jet contrail â€“ that one trail can expand to cover an area of four thousand square kilometers and linger for more than twenty hours. This phenomenon was unheard of in the early fifties, sixties and seventies. It was not until the late 1980s that there was a huge change and people began to see the first persistent jet contrails that persist like we see today on a massive scale.
NASA studies show that climate change and global warming problems could be attributed to these types of persistent jet contrails and that jets cause them to form in our once clear blue skies. One of the issues needed to be addressed as we go forward is: â€œHOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR SKIESâ€¦NATURAL OR MAN-MADE?â€ And right now we are making manmade clouds like the ones you see up on the screen. And these man-made clouds are trapping warmth in our
atmosphere. Isnâ€™t it time that all of us addressed this global warming issue? The climate change produced by the jets picturedâ€¦not all jetsâ€¦mostly non-commercial jets, can be observed in our skies and by weathermen who canâ€™t predict the weather very well because they refuse to put these man-made formations in their weather prediction models. These man-made clouds trap warmth in our atmosphere and increase our humidity. This allows for diseases, flu, molds, mildews, fungus, viruses, and pests to proliferate. These pictures of man-made clouds were taken in Lake, Mendocino, Contra Costa, Sonoma and other California counties, to show what man-made skies look like now. They represent thousands of similar pictures taken worldwide the
show persistent jet contrails turning into white haze and man-made clouds. NASA, NOAA, and other U.S. government agencies know that these unusual clouds are man-made and not â€œnormalâ€ cloud formations. No one is asking what happens to agriculture and human health from man-made reductions of the amount of direct sunlight hitting the earth because it is blocked by man-made clouds. Pictured on the screen is one example of what scientists call â€œglobal dimmingâ€ a process that reduces direct sunlight from reaching the earth. Is this why rickets, a bone disease, has been increasing in children across the United States (not seen in the U.S. since children were freed from working in American coal mines)? The pictures that you see on this screen look odd, unlike historical cloud formations that were observed and photographed

6) Chemical Atmospheric Heating and Testing Programs


Lithium Red Sky April 16, 1979 â€“ Alaska Science Forum: www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF3/312.html

Alaska’s Space Pyrotechnics â€“ Alaska Science Forum â€“ Barium February 18, 1985


Could the H.A.A.R.P. Project in Alaska, NOAA, DOE, NASA, Air Force, Department of Defense, etc., be the reason for climate changes that have been escalating since the late 1980s, when the funds and technology allowed for the escalation of atmospheric heating and testing programs like NASAâ€™s TMA Night Cloud tests using trimethylaluminum or the advanced testing of military weapons systems like star wars? NASAâ€™s Night Clouds Atmospheric Testing Program:


7) The Agriculture & Tree Connection


9) 1999 EPA Subsonic Jet Fuel Emissions Report

10) â€œMitigationâ€

11) The EPA 1970â€™s Model

12) Tree Death & Fire Hazards
Our trees, across the United States are dying and in decline in many areas. In Northern California, Lake, Mendocino, Shasta and Sonoma Counties the evidence is almost everywhere. We have traveled to other states and counties and found the same declinesâ€¦it is a decline we cannot afford. Since the late 1980s forest fires have burned hotter and higher than ever beforeâ€¦and one reason is the use of flammable and toxic atmospheric chemicals which cause increased tree decline and also contaminate our soils and air.

13) Microbes

14) â€œThe solutions are in our hands today.â€
If we decide to reduce pollution at it sources through regulations then we can make faster progress. If we choose the alternative solutions being proposed as â€œmitigationâ€ measures then progress will be slow, unproven, and uncontrolled as the chemical and particulate mixtures will exacerbate a deterioration in human and agriculture health. These geoengineering programs are waiting in the wings to be usedâ€¦thousands of them here and around the worldâ€¦none with

We hope that all of you, before jumping on the â€œmitigationâ€ bandwagon now being promoted and heavily marketed, under â€œCap & Trade Money Market Schemesâ€, will closely examine these proposed forms of mitigation before being stampeded into using them. Just who will they benefit? When a California corporation called Planktos (Summer or Fall 2007 Program), decides to create an artificial algae bloom in the Galapagos Islands Pacific by dusting the Pacific Ocean with iron dust, there is no worldwide oversight. They can harm marine life without any consequences. Why? So that they can say they are benefiting the environment and then
Cap & Trade solutions or many â€œmitigation measuresâ€ we must know that reducing pollution is the ultimate goal. We must examine the consequences of our actions and research these suspect geoengineering plans. We have other options like using microbes. We have the technology and the ability now to reduce pollutionâ€¦the question is do we have the will to

Q&A Questions
1) How do wars affect climate change?
I do believe that jets flying everywhere, not only over Iraq but other countries, contribute to climate change and add pollution to our atmosphere. The use of chemicals and explosives are adding to water, air, and soil contamination which impairs crop production and the quality of our air. War is a serious problem. The amount of money spent on wars impairs our ability to fund the EPA and other programs that would reduce pollution or conduct the research needed to advance such technologies. War funding ties up technology and funding that could benefit all of us. One expensive bomb destroys everythingâ€¦leaving nothing behind but damage, ruin, injury, pain, and death from â€œShock & Aweâ€â€¦it is the legacy that war leaves all of us.

2) Are we trading one pollution problem with another when we suggest some forms of mitigation?

We have many technologies that have already been invented and are available to the public. We can use natural microbes to clean up pollution sour ces and restore our soils to a normal balance. We cannot, out of fear, use mitigation strategies which trade one pollution problem for another. The is a bill in the California legislature that would ban the use and sale of all incandescent light bulbs in favor of the use of fluorescent light bulbs. Fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury and have inadequate market labels to let people know of the danger of mercury pollution from this source or how to properly recycle them at HAZMAT sites. If you break a mercury bulb your house, office or room it becomes a toxic HAZMAT site, which needs special cleaning. If you use your vacuum cleaner or your broom to clean up the site it then must be sent to a toxic disposal site. Many people donâ€™t know that there are light fixtures that fluorescent bulbs canâ€™t be used in or they may explode. And most people throw them in the regular waste stream without any precautions where they will easily break and contaminate
drinking water sources, rivers, and streams. Mercury poisoning goes up the food chain from water to fish and birds. Is California and the rest of our nation trading one pollution problem for another by considering passage of this bill? 3) How is agriculture affected by urban sprawl and what can be done about it? In Sacramento, California, miles of prime producing agricultural land is being turned into thousands of one-story tract homes; paved over with roads and buildings. Economical public rail transportation is not being put into place to move thousands of people to work and shopping malls placing more demands on the construction of more highways while
clogging streets and roadsâ€¦more time spent running automobile engines while sitting in long linesâ€¦more pollution. We must change the practice of paving over prime agriculture lands for housing tracts not only in Sacramento but also in Mendocino and other counties and states. These zoning changes are being railroaded through our local governments without agriculture being taken into consideration and how these tracts will negatively impact climate change and global warming while reducing the land available for crop production. Solar power and adequate water for these new housing tracts is not being considered by local and state planners nor is the implementation of high speed rail transportation. We 7 need to build not only higher in density but also in places where prime agriculture land will not be paved over, never to be
used for agriculture again. All the paving and roads just exacerbates climate change and global warming. These actions are not a solution to our climate or food problems.

4) Should college students be required to plant eleven trees in order to graduate?

Planting native trees is important. But we also have to examine why our trees are dying or in decline across the United Statesâ€¦even newly planted trees. 83% of the trees and plants in the Sierra Nevada region are dying along with the Douglas fir in many parts of Alaska, Nevada, Connecticut, and California. No money is being spent to find out why they are dying. California Senator Dianne Feinstein proposed cutting down thousands of dead trees in the Lake Tahoe area without spending a dime to find out why they were dying in 2006. And yes, it is important to plant trees, however it matters what type of trees we plant and how we maintain them after planting. In closing, I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak at this United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Many technologies can now be used, like microbes, in developing nations. Americans use a lot of the resources of developing countries. And we need to reduce our impact on these countries. Water is going to be a more and more important issue
in the future. Do not let corporations (like Coca Cola), purchase your local water districts or supply sources. If you do the price you will pay in the future will be astronomical.
Agriculture is extremely important worldwide as well as preserving our trees. And to allow one country to modify its weather, changing the weather in another country, is something we all need to address. I hope that all countries become aware of the programs discussed today and join together to say â€œnoâ€ to some of them, like the weaponization of space, and the chemicals used in those programs. We can reduce our pollutants so that we make life and human health much better.

A special thank you the United Nations and to a few of the sponsors: The Light Millennium, Campaign for the Earth, Ribbon International, Peace Action, Peace Caucus, and the Turkish Cultural Center, New York. For more information on these and other topics: Website: californiaskywatch.com Many people spoke on the issue of climate change at this conference. United Nations Website on Climate Change.