In recent weeks, a plan has been announced to spray 300 tonnes of dry ice in Bangkok to combat a problem the city is having with dust particles.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to use dry ice to create atmospheric openings that can disperse dust particles. Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has also initiated geoengineering efforts collaborating with, for example, the Air Force to use larger aircraft for rainmaking operations.
As Nicholas Creed, a writer based in Thailand, pondered: with all this spraying are they trying to disperse dust particles, which seems to be a seasonal problem, or are they really attempting to start a pandemic, such as a bird flu pandemic which the Thai government is predicting will start in June.
In his ‘Thailand News Roundup’ a couple of weeks ago, Nicholas Creed compiled a few stories which he thought were worthy of attention, “both for the outside world peeking in and for readers based in Thailand.”
His stories included:
- Reports that Bangkok’s latest ‘volunteer’ police officers are all Chinese nationals;
- biometric readers at airports;
- a WHO facility is in the works for more “safe and effective” drugs. This facility will manufacture the antiretroviral drug Efavirenz, a drug prescribed for HIV-infected people;
- a bird flu outbreak is
predictedscheduled by the Government; and, - Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announces a plan to spray 300 tonnes of dry ice to solve the pollution season’s particle matter crisis.
It is the last of the stories that has intrigued us. Creed quoted from the Bangkok Post:
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is stepping up efforts to solve the dust problem in the capital, which is expected to stay at present high levels until next month.
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on Saturday that during his visit to the Hua Hin Royal Rainmaking Centre on Jan 3, talks were held about creating atmospheric openings to disperse harmful dust particles.
He said the effort is backed by scientific research and will involve a team of specialists from the centre as well as support from PTT Plc, which will contribute 300 tonnes of dry ice for the operation.
“In a completely unrelated tangent, I recall a [Department of Defence] showman talking about how to hypothetically simulate pandemics by spraying chemical agents around. It’s probably nothing …” Creed said. And linked the video clip below of James Giordano explaining how to fake pandemics.
Considering another story he had shared about the Government “predicting” a bird flu outbreak and preparing vaccines in advance “for a potential outbreak in June,” Creed may not have completely gone off on a tangent. Especially considering that the public can never truly know what is actually in the substance being sprayed at any particular time.
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