Weather Warfare: Beware The US Military's Experiments with Climate Control
This article was first
published by The Ecologist in December 2007.
Ii summarizes several in-depth and detailed articles written by the
author on the HAARP program.
It should be noted
that while the HAARP program based in Gakona, Alaska was closed down, the US
Air Force which managed the HAARP project, nonetheless confirms that
environmental modification techniques are slated to continue:
“We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere,
which the HAARP was really designed to do,” he said. “To inject energy into the
ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been
completed.”
The debate on climate
change does not acknowledge the role of climatic warfare, namely the deliberate
manipulation of climate for military use.
“HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilizing
agricultural and ecological systems globally. Climatic warfare’ potentially
threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the
reports for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.”
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, November 2015, October
2018
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Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change,
the world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of
sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both the US and Russia have developed
capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use.
Environmental modification techniques have been applied by
the US military for more than half a century. US mathematician John von
Neumann, in liaison with the US Department of Defense, started his research on
weather modification in the late 1940s at the height of the Cold War and
foresaw ‘forms of climatic warfare as yet un-imagined’. During the Vietnam war,
cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting in 1967 under Project Popeye, the
objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply
routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The US military has developed advanced capabilities that
enable it selectively to alter weather patterns. The technology, which is being
perfected under the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is
an appendage of the Strategic Defense Initiative – ‘Star Wars’. From a military
standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, operating from the outer
atmosphere and capable of destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems
around the world.
Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document
AF 2025 Final Report, ‘offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options
to defeat or coerce an adversary’, capabilities, it says, extend to the
triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes: ‘Weather
modification will become a part of domestic and international security and
could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications
and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate
precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the
production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of
[military] technologies.’
In 1977, an international Convention was ratified by the UN
General Assembly which banned ‘military or other hostile use of environmental
modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects.’ It
defined ‘environmental modification techniques’ as ‘any technique for changing
–through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes – the dynamics,
composition or structure of the earth, including its biota, lithosphere,
hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.’
While the substance of the 1977 Convention was reasserted in
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992 Earth
Summit in Rio, debate on weather modification for military use has become a
scientific taboo.
Military analysts are mute on the subject. Meteorologists
are not investigating the matter and environmentalists are focused on
greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Neither is the possibility
of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a military and
intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, part of the broader debate on
climate change under UN auspices.
The HAARP Program
Established in 1992, HAARP, based in Gokona, Alaska, is an
array of high-powered antennas that transmit, through high-frequency radio
waves, massive amounts of energy into the ionosphere (the upper layer of the
atmosphere). Their construction was funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy and
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Operated jointly by the
Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, HAARP
constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating ‘controlled local
modifications of the ionosphere’. According to its official website, www.haarp.alaska.edu, HAARP will be used ‘to induce a small, localized change in ionospheric
temperature so physical reactions can be studied by other instruments located
either at or close to the HAARP site’.
But Rosalie Bertell, president of the International
Institute of Concern for Public Health, says HAARP operates as ‘a gigantic
heater that can cause major disruptions in the ionosphere, creating not just
holes, but long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation
from bombarding the planet’.
Physicist Dr Bernard Eastlund called it ‘the largest
ionospheric heater ever built’. HAARP is presented by the US Air Force as a
research program, but military documents confirm its main objective is to
‘induce ionospheric modifications’ with a view to altering weather patterns and
disrupting communications and radar.
According to a report by the Russian State Duma: ‘The US
plans to carry out large-scale experiments under the HAARP program [and]
create weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and equipment
installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity
networks and in oil and gas pipelines, and have a negative impact on the mental
health of entire regions.’*
An analysis of statements emanating from the US Air Force
points to the unthinkable: the covert manipulation of weather patterns,
communications and electric power systems as a weapon of global warfare,
enabling the US to disrupt and dominate entire regions. Weather manipulation is
the pre-emptive weapon par excellence. It can be directed against enemy
countries or ‘friendly nations’ without their knowledge, used to destabilize
economies, ecosystems and agriculture. It can also trigger havoc in financial
and commodity markets. The disruption in agriculture creates a greater
dependency on food aid and imported grain staples from the US and other Western
countries.
HAARP was developed as part of an Anglo-American partnership
between Raytheon Corporation, which owns the HAARP patents, the US Air Force and
British Aerospace Systems (BAES).
The HAARP project is one among several collaborative
ventures in advanced weapons systems between the two defence giants. The HAARP
project was initiated in 1992 by Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI), a
subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO). APTI (including the HAARP
patents) was sold by ARCO to E-Systems Inc, in 1994. E-Systems, on contract to
the CIA and US Department of Defense, outfitted the ‘Doomsday Plan’, which
‘allows the President to manage a nuclear war’.Subsequently acquired by
Raytheon Corporation, it is among the largest intelligence contractors in the
World. BAES was involved in the development of the advanced stage of the HAARP
antenna array under a 2004 contract with the Office of Naval Research.
The installation of 132 high frequency transmitters was
entrusted by BAES to its US subsidiary, BAE Systems Inc. The project, according
to a July report in Defense News, was undertaken by BAES’s Electronic Warfare
division. In September it received DARPA’s top award for technical achievement
for the design, construction and activation of the HAARP array of antennas.
The HAARP system is fully operational and in many regards
dwarfs existing conventional and strategic weapons systems. While there is no
firm evidence of its use for military purposes, Air Force documents suggest
HAARP is an integral part of the militarization of space. One would expect the
antennas already to have been subjected to routine testing.
Under the UNFCCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) has a mandate ‘to assess scientific, technical and socioeconomic
information relevant for the understanding of climate change’. This mandate
includes environmental warfare. ‘Geo-engineering’ is acknowledged, but the
underlying military applications are neither the object of policy analysis or
scientific research in the thousands of pages of IPCC reports and supporting
documents, based on the expertise and input of some 2,500 scientists,
policymakers and environmentalists. ‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens
the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for
which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
See you all tomorrow.
Buh-bye.
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