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A plane flies overhead. The sky starts to fill with dark clouds, and droplets of rain form muddy puddles all over the ground.
Think this is an act of Mother Nature? Think again.
The government has declassified reports that reveal extensive testing has been conducted to discover whether humans can control the weather. In Nico Stehr’s article, “Man Made Weather: Weapon of the Future?” Stehr says, “He who controls the weather, controls the world.”
Human control over the weather, called weather modification, was first discussed in 1977 when the U.N. General Assembly formed ENMOD, the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Technique. Weather modification testing has only increased since then.
At the 60th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change, a panel of speakers at the workshop “The Wild Cards in Climate Change: Weather Warfare, Geo-engineering and ENMOD,” exposed the use of military weapons and experiments designed to control the weather.
“New Zealand Tidal Wave Bomb” in The New Zealand Herald reports that weather experiments were performed in 1944 in Auckland, New Zealand.
The experiment, conducted by Professor Thomas Leech, was designed to study whether underwater bombs could create tsunamis, or tidal waves, to destroy coastal communities. The New Zealand Herald says that the United States and Great Britain were interested in Leech’s work.
Neil Kirton, a colleague of Leech’s, spoke to the newspaper on the future implications of Dr. Leech’s research.
“Whether it could ever be resurrected … under some circumstances I think it could be devastating,” he says.
Pauline Cantwell from Peace Action discussed Project Stormfury, a study conducted by the U.S. government from 1962 to 1983.
According to Cantwell, planes flew over the Atlantic Ocean and seeded cyclones with silver iodide to see if they could reduce the severity of hurricanes. Silver iodide can cause freezing temperatures and is used in cloud seeding experiments to induce rain.
Dr. Zafer Ayvaz, editor of Ecology Magazine and president of the Environmental Research and Protection Agency in Turkey, noted that in 1990, hundreds of Kuwait oil wells were set on fire by Iraqis, which lowered temperatures and created a “black rain.” The rain was said to alter Kuwait’s natural environment.
Cantwell also spoke on Project Woodpecker, a governmental study researching the ways an electromagnetic pulse can alter the Earth’s magnetic field.
The name of the study is derived from the intense hammering sound heard by people living near the Livermore, Calif., research facility.
Cantwell described its effects as being so powerful that it would create earthquakes, volcanoes, and even spread viruses.
HAARP, or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Alaska, is an ongoing research project to study ionospheric processes on Earth. Cantwell described the ionosphere at the top part of the atmosphere, and says HAARP acts as an “ionospheric heater.”
She believes that HAARP could be used to alter radio waves and hinder communication throughout the world. She says it could also cause mind control by altering human thought processes through radio waves.
Nick Begich, author of “Angels Don’t Play This HAARP,” discovered the patent information for the technology used in HAARP.
HAARP.net reports that the patent says: “Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes.”
These are not the only government programs designed to modify the weather. Cantwell says there are over 54 weather modification programs in the United States, and many of these programs may be concentrating on using weather as a weapon.
Rosalind Peterson, another panelist at the 60th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change, is the president of the Agriculture Defense Coalition. Peterson studies the impact weather modification is having on the environment.
She cited a case in which Southern California needed more water, so the weather was altered in Wyoming to create more snow, which would ultimately melt and send water to Southern California. She says surrounding Wyoming communities went into drought conditions.
“Not only do they modify your weather in one area for a few, they do it in neighboring areas,” she says.
Peterson also examines “man-made clouds,” in which planes are seeding clouds to create rain.
In some cases, these dark clouds last as long as 20 hours and block out sunlight. Plants are unable to undergo photosynthesis and entire ecosystems can be disrupted.
Peterson says there is no oversight on weather modification programs and many government programs refuse to release reports detailing how these programs affect the environment.
Allan Buckmann, from the California State Fish and Game Department, is studying environmental changes in California’s natural environment.
He has noticed an unusual evaporation of rain, sudden oak tree death, and suspicious jet cloud formations in the sky. He also calls into question increasing temperatures.
“I was a surfer when I was a boy and I don’t remember the sun being as hot as it is now,” he says.
Next time there’s a plane flying overhead, take notice of its jet trails.
There are activists studying those same jet trails and keeping a keen eye on weather modification programs. Web sites like PeaceCaucous.net encourage open-discussion of these programs and supply site visitors with new developments.
Newswithviews.com promotes unbiased reporting on hot topics like global warming.
Those interested in better understanding climate change can look to the Web site for the 60th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO Conference on Climate Change.
Activist groups like The Climate Group and Trees for the Future are working toward solutions that can help maintain a healthy Earth for generations to come.