Weather Warfare: Beware the US military€ ’²s experiments with climatic
warfare
€ ’±Climatic warfare€ ’² has been excluded from the agenda on climate
change.
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 7, 2007
The Ecologist, December 2007
"HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilising
agricultural and ecological systems globally."
"€ ’±Climatic warfare€ ’² potentially threatens the future of
humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC
received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize."
Pdf version of article on Weather Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, The
Ecologist, December 2007 (pdf)
Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the
world€ ’²s 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 unimagined€ ’². 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€ ’². From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass
destruction, operating from the outer atmosphere and capable of destabilising
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€ ’², 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.€ ’²
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.€ ’² It defined € ’±environmental modification techniques€ ’² 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.€ ’²
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 Programme
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€ ’².
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€ ’².
HAARP Program, Alaska
HAARP array of antennas
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€ ’².
Physicist Dr Bernard Eastlund called it € ’±the largest ionospheric
heater ever built€ ’². HAARP is presented by the US Air Force as a
research programme, but military documents confirm its main objective is to
€ ’±induce ionospheric modifications€ ’² 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 programme [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.€ ’²*
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€ ’² without their knowledge, used
to destabilise 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€ ’², which € ’±allows the President to manage a nuclear
war€ ’².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€ ’²s Electronic
Warfare division. In September it received DARPA€ ’²s 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 militarisation 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€ ’². This
mandate includes environmental warfare. € ’±Geo-engineering€ ’² 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€ ’² potentially threatens the future of humanity,
but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC
received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Archive of Global Research articles on Weather Warfare
Global Research Articles by Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
warfare
€ ’±Climatic warfare€ ’² has been excluded from the agenda on climate
change.
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 7, 2007
The Ecologist, December 2007
"HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destabilising
agricultural and ecological systems globally."
"€ ’±Climatic warfare€ ’² potentially threatens the future of
humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC
received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize."
Pdf version of article on Weather Warfare by Michel Chossudovsky, The
Ecologist, December 2007 (pdf)
Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the
world€ ’²s 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 unimagined€ ’². 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€ ’². From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass
destruction, operating from the outer atmosphere and capable of destabilising
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€ ’², 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.€ ’²
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.€ ’² It defined € ’±environmental modification techniques€ ’² 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.€ ’²
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 Programme
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€ ’².
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€ ’².
HAARP Program, Alaska
HAARP array of antennas
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€ ’².
Physicist Dr Bernard Eastlund called it € ’±the largest ionospheric
heater ever built€ ’². HAARP is presented by the US Air Force as a
research programme, but military documents confirm its main objective is to
€ ’±induce ionospheric modifications€ ’² 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 programme [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.€ ’²*
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€ ’² without their knowledge, used
to destabilise 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€ ’², which € ’±allows the President to manage a nuclear
war€ ’².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€ ’²s Electronic
Warfare division. In September it received DARPA€ ’²s 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 militarisation 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€ ’². This
mandate includes environmental warfare. € ’±Geo-engineering€ ’² 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€ ’² potentially threatens the future of humanity,
but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC
received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Archive of Global Research articles on Weather Warfare
Global Research Articles by Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
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