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It's pretty common in conspiracy subs for people to point out that promoting a climate crisis is motivated by the ability to kill two birds with one stone. Not only do you control the narrative, but with sleight of hand, you accomplish something practical that is unrelated to climate. For example, governments like the US's could use the premise of climate change to introduce new regulatory schemes and policies that would increase tax revenues by a full order of magnitude.

But today a simple thought occurred to me. "Man, I bet these warmer autumns and warmer, shorter, drier winters sure make it easier for migrants to spread north."

Look, I don't claim to know that weather manipulation is occurring. I know there is a clear argument for it being plausible. And it's important to be clear about what we mean when we refer to 'weather manipulation'. Less reasonable people will talk about the ability to promote specific weather patterns on local scales (e.g., a storm in X county of Y state). More reasonable people will talk about the ability to influence probabilities (e.g., the probability across a 30-day period for daily high temps to exceed historical averages).

What seems clear is that winters in the US are becoming warmer and drier on average. Not only that, but we've seen the emergence of a strange 7-10 day pattern of huge fluctuation associated with "heat domes", which are these large areas of high pressure that tend to block weather. Notably, these weather features did not even appear in the literature until 2021. That year was the first mention of a "heat dome", which is categorically a different thing than a "heat wave". On its face, for any large and novel new pattern to simply "drop" three years ago is improbable given that we've been studying weather seriously for a century or so, and things became pretty sophisticated after the mid-twentieth century.

Anyway, it just occurred to me that in terms of the "second bird", taking northern and mid-western winters from 5 months (Nov-March) of uncomfortably cold to only two months (Jan-Feb) would probably have a large impact on the dispositions of migrants from warmer climates (equatorial regions for example) to move north.

And, if you were trying to flood the country with migrants, it would be advisable if the distribution of migrants more closely approximated the normal population distribution (geographically) of the native population. If they all stayed in only the southernmost states for two or three decades, this would be worse than if they spread out.