Down the Rabbit Hole on Geoengineering

Kurt Vonnegut

While doing research on geoengineering, I came across an interesting item. One of the speakers in the documentary, The Dimming, mentioned Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist. 

Well, I'm not adverse to chasing down rabbit holes, so I did a search on Vonnegut and his novels some of which examine the influence of technology on society. Since he worked at GE before quitting to write full time, and his brother was a scientist there doing cloud seeding research, he has some first-hand knowledge.

As I pursued my search on geoengineering, I stumbled on a memoir published last May by Jennifer Kabat called Nightshining. That led me to an interview with her. Here's a bit:

After her basement in Margaretville, New York, fills with water from a burst creek and her town is deemed a federal disaster area, Jennifer discovers a bizarre connection between the catastrophic 1950 “Rainmaker’s Flood” and geoengineering experiments conducted in her town by Kurt Vonnegut’s scientist brother, Bernard, and the chemist and meteorologist, Vince Schaefer—two men determined to control the weather.

Wow! 1950? Cloud seeding leading to devastating floods?

It makes the claims of those wondering whether cloud seeding contributed to the recent flood of the Guadalupe River more credible, although anyone who says that gets the tin hat treatment. Sound familiar? Remember all the reputable doctors cancelled who had their medical licenses suspended because they refused to jump on the dangerous COVID gene therapy bandwagon? The empire always strikes back!

Kabat is a socialist so I'm sure much in her book would find us in disagreement. She made disparaging remarks about Marjorie Taylor Greene in the interview and is a likely Trump hater. But I'm fascinated to read her story. None of the local libraries has Nightshining unfortunately, so back to Amazon and another book order for me. I look at the piles of unread books around my house and sigh, but this one will likely go to the top of the list. Now I just need to go to the beach and sit in the dimming sun to read it.