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Message Log 61, 08/22/2051 - JEWL 3-1-2

Cloud Wars \U0001f4a8

Discussions about geoengineering will begin to dominate your news feeds about the climate crisis in the coming years.

Cloud seeding, or the act of seeding the atmosphere in order to create precipitation and shade to help cool the planet, will become one of the most widely used geoengineering experiments, but with disastrous consequences.

The Cloud Wars of the early 2030s were the final push toward a world in disarray. Cloud seeding, like dams, deprived those downstream of valuable precipitation.

As the earth warmed, clouds rose higher in the atmosphere and moved away from tropical areas, retreating toward the poles. This was problematic because high, dense clouds trap heat, whereas low clouds help to block and cool the planet. The tropics so heavily seeded the atmosphere that the temperature rise accelerated even faster.

Worse, the planet's jetstream began to stray from its usual patterns. As the weather became more erratic and our freshwater supplies ran out in cities around the world, societies used this urgency to justify quick implementation before all of the science was available, resulting in major consequences for the further unbalance of the climate systems.