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Originally posted by Phage
Sounds remarkably like what Bush and Cheney pulled to drag us into Iraq. Mis-information.
Originally posted by Phage
The question he was responding to:
He is saying that rumor or the threat of this sort of thing can be damaging by the disruption it can cause.
In other words, the dis-information of claiming that those things are real can be used against us. It is the threat of enemies using these rumors to create fear which is real, not not things that are rumored.
hmmm. Just which one's are the real dis-informants?
Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.
DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Oh, I read the whole transcript before I replied the first time.
I think you have misrepresented what is being said in answer to a specific question. Cohen is talking about false reports, false terror threats.
The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search.
The purpose of a terror attack is to create fear and confusion, to cause the enemy to waste resources. Creating the fear of an attack, even if the means of carrying out that attack do not exist, accomplishes that end.
Sounds remarkably like what Bush and Cheney pulled to drag us into Iraq. Mis-information.
Originally posted by Essan
Now there's a thought. If enough people thought that a foreign power were in the possession of exotic weapons, and that the latest natural disaster was caused by these weapons, you have a groundswell of opinion in support for attacking that foreign power ......
Most people would be unaware how impossible such weapons might be.
But they've all seen the (supposed) results of their deployment. And they want action to prevent them being (supposedly) deployed again.
Scary.
Is that a new conspiracy we've uncovered?
Incidently, with regards the reality of large scale weather manipulation - such activities would affect the whole planet (create a high pressure cell over Texas and you affect the weather in Greece) and it seems unlikely if they were really happening that no-one in all the hundreds of professional meteorological organisations all around the world, or indeed tens of thousands of amateurs with access to detailed weather and climate data, has noticed.
And even more unlikely that the British, French, Americans, Indians, Chinese, Peruvians, Iranians, Russians, Mexicans, South Africans, Japanese etc are all in on the plot together.
Again, my attitude is, if it's not going exactly right, we're going to make it go exactly right. If there's problems, we're going to address the problems. And that's what I've come down to assure people of. And again, I want to thank everybody.
And I'm not looking forward to this trip. I got a feel for it when I flew over before. It -- for those who have not -- trying to conceive what we're talking about, it's as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by a -- the worst kind of weapon you can imagine. And now we're going to go try to comfort people in that part of the world.
Thank you. (Applause.)
END 10:39 A.M. CDT
www.whitehouse.gov...
NEWS BRIEF: "Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones"
by Chen May Yee,
Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal
Thursday, November 13, 1997, page A19.
"KULA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's war on smog is about to get a new twist. The government wants to create man-made cyclones to scrub away the haze that has plagued Malaysia since July. 'We will use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air', said Datuk Law Hieng Ding, minister for science, technology and the environment. The plan calls for the use of new Russian technology to create cyclones -- the giant storms also known as typhoons and hurricanes -- to cause torrential rains, washing the smoke out of the air. The Malaysian cabinet and the finance minister have approved the plan, Datuk Law said. A Malaysian company, BioCure Sdn. Bhd., will sign a memorandum of understanding soon with a government-owned Russian party to produce the cyclone."
"Datuk Law declined to disclose the size of the cyclone to be generated, or the mechanism. 'The details I don't have', he said. He did say, though, that the cyclone generated would be 'quite strong'. Datuk Law also declined to disclose the price of creating the cyclone. But, he said, Malaysia doesn't have to pay if the project doesn't work."
BBC-Malaysia calls in Russian rainmakers
"Pick up any text book on hurricanes and it will tell you that the one place where hurricanes do not occur is the South Atlantic Ocean. The atmosphere does not provide enough spin near the surface to get them started and winds higher in the atmosphere tend to shear off any that do make a start. Hence, it was with some amazement that meteorologists watched the first ever recorded hurricane develop off the coast of Brazil in the last week of March."
Catarina hits Brazil
The director of the Russian geophysical observatory of the Russian Meteorological Service, A.Voyeikov, says that the process of making a weather forecast for Russia, the USA, Europe and Canada is much more complicated in comparison with other states. "Atmospheric processes are not stable on these territories, and cyclones may occur absolutely incidentally," Voyeikov said."
Modern technologies unable to predict weather changes
"CNN) -- Hurricanes aren't behaving like many of us are used to them behaving. They're bigger and meaner, and more numerous than many people have seen.
Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne tore up parts of Florida last year. After tweaking Florida, Katrina and Rita are wreaking havoc this year along the Gulf Coast from Alabama to Texas.
But don't rush to blame it on global warming, experts warn.
Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that we're in a period of heightened hurricane activity that could last another decade or two."
CNN-It's a 'new era' of hurricanes.
"As the heat wave continues to fry Greater Toronto, residents are left with a burning question: Why has this summer been so hot and humid?
The answer is anything but simple."No one wants to answer that question because none of us really knows," said Ellen Wall, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Guelph.
What is clear, say meteorologists, is that air from the south produces warm weather, while air from the north results in cool weather. Unlike last summer, when lots of northerly air flew over Toronto, most of the air this summer has its roots in the Gulf of Mexico and the pollution-thick Ohio valley, said David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
This southerly air explains the warm temperatures, said Phillips.
What is not known is why the high-pressure system that has hovered over Toronto in recent weeks, resulting in week-after-week of record-breaking heat, has refused to budge."
Toronto Star-Why is this summer so hot?
Whether the likes of HAARP may inadvertently affect medium or long term synoptics is another matter.
Originally posted by StellarX
But why would they suspect scalar weapons? I mean if the presumption is that it's natural you just have to adape the models presuming that natural is different from what it used to be? Why do you think Global warming is in vogue with the people who used to be able to understand weather patterns?
Wouldn't you require a new phenomenon to explain what you can't otherwise explain?
And even more unlikely that the British, French, Americans, Indians, Chinese, Peruvians, Iranians, Russians, Mexicans, South Africans, Japanese etc are all in on the plot together.
Why presume that this is known and understood by most governments thus requiring a massive conspiracy? What would these governments tell their meteorologist or their people in this disclosour?
And i could go on; there really is plenty of people in 'your' field who have for decades expressed puzzlement at how certain things are happening and how they were not formerly thought possible. Clearly things are different than they used to be so the question is largely 'why' with you having seen my 'explanation' for it.
Whether the likes of HAARP may inadvertently affect medium or long term synoptics is another matter.
Sure because you education were good enough to ensure that you don't think you know everything; just apparently nearly everything.
I beleive the data is there to inspect and i apologise if these new technologies negates much of the qualifications required to be called a meterologist. I really am sorry that the climate and weahter are being taken out of the hands of nature and used as some national governments see fit.
Originally posted by Essan
GW is about long term trends. No meteorologist with his salt would attribute any specific weather event or even series of events to GW (though the media constantly ask them to do so and may misquote them accordingly).
But is there any real evidence of synoptic patterns developing that cannot be explained by well known meteorological processes? And I don't mean someone quoted in the media as saying "we don't know why it was hot/cold/wet last week".
"Pick up any text book on hurricanes and it will tell you that the one place where hurricanes do not occur is the South Atlantic Ocean. The atmosphere does not provide enough spin near the surface to get them started and winds higher in the atmosphere tend to shear off any that do make a start. Hence, it was with some amazement that meteorologists watched the first ever recorded hurricane develop off the coast of Brazil in the last week of March."
Uk weather service-Catarina hits Brazil
Simply because with so many thousands of people involved, someone , somewhere is going to notice something. And if the Russians suspect the Americans of causing drought in Australia ........ well who knows?
Actually, they'd be expressing such puzzlement for thousands of years We know more today, but still not everything. And for many parts of the world we only have a few decades worth of data to compare we.
We're only now slowly starting to understand the processes involved in tornado formations. In the UK there are local weather effects (such as The Brown Willy Effect) which again are only now being scientificly described and understood.
This doesn't mean they are new phenomena nor that we're having to invent explanations for what is really - unbeknownst to us - deliberate weather manipulation.
When things like the S Atlantic hurricane occur we look back over the data and do not see anything that cannot be explained by standard meteorology (and in such cases, it's actually sea temperatures which are crucial, not atmospheric synoptics). Moreover, in this case the 'cane formed in the area where some climate models had predicted hurricanes would form more often in the future, if GW continues.
The disturbance was in an unusually favorable environment with below average wind shear and above average sea surface temperatures. The combination of the two led to a slow transition from an Extratropical cyclone to a Subtropical cyclone by March 24. The storm continued to obtain tropical characteristics and became a tropical storm the next day while the winds steadily increased. The storm reached winds of 75 mph (120 km/h)—equivalent to a low-end category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale—on March 26. At this time it was unofficially named Catarina and was also the first hurricane-intensity tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Unusually favorable conditions persisted and Catarina continued to intensify and was estimated to have peaked with winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) on March 28.
en.wikipedia.org...
Why is so much time and money spend - by the likes of NASA and even the military - into better understanding atmospheric processes if in fact we already know so much we can even manipulate those processes.
Although hurricane forecasting is an inexact science, an investigative series by The Miami Herald suggests it could be considerably more accurate if the National Hurricane Center's equipment functioned better and its research efforts were bolstered.
The newspaper's study of 45 hurricanes that have struck land since 1992 indicated significant failures of buoys, weather balloons, radar, sensors and aircraft that hindered the tracking of nearly half of the storms. Forecasters are, in the words of one science officer, "forecasting blind'' because of inadequate funding and -- to a lesser extent -- misallocation of resources.
Budget constraints that grounded the center's uniquely equipped Gulfstream jet, coupled with critical data lost because of computer crashes, may have caused forecasters to fail to predict damage from Hurricane Katrina in South Florida and delayed evacuation warnings to New Orleans. Missing weather balloon readings, malfunctioning observation stations and a failure to fly planes equipped to measure wind speeds may have contributed to an inability to anticipate the power of Hurricane Charley when it shifted course and slammed into Punta Gorda, Fla., killing 35 people.
Hurricane researcher Mike Black told Herald reporter Debbie Cenziper that putting proper equipment in place could improve hurricane tracking by 20 percent and intensity forecasts by 50 percent. That could save lives and many times the needed outlay in economic losses, especially in an era of increased hurricane activity.
Congress needs to set aside more money for hurricane forecasting, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration needs to do a better of allocating resources.
Indystar-Forecasting trouble
"Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week's scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B'nai Brith.
A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.
DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
It'd be like spending billions of dollar inventing a means of driving a cart by means of an internal combustion engine.
Who did all the research than enabled this scale of manipulation? Where? When?
The Russian Woodpecker was a notorious Soviet signal that could be heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989. It sounded like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise, at 10 Hz, giving rise to the "Woodpecker" name. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcast, amateur radio, and utility transmissions and resulted in thousands of complaints by many countries worldwide.
en.wikipedia.org...
Khrushchev proclaimed that the Soviet Union intended to reduce its standing armed forces by a third in the next year or two, from 3,623,000 to 2,423,000.
Yet, as Khrushchev unrolled some details, he made it clear that he was not being a bit impractical. "Our air force and navy," said Khrushchev, waving a stubby finger at his listeners, "have lost their previous importance. Their arms are not being reduced but replaced. We have cut down and we shall even discontinue the manufacture of bombers; already our armed forces have to a considerable extent shifted to rocket and nuclear arms. The proposed reduction will in no way reduce the firepower of our armed forces, and this is the main point. . . Soviet scientists have made it possible to equip our army with weapons hitherto unknown to man."
"It is now quite clear," Khrushchev went on, "that the U.S. is not the world's most powerful military power. We are not trying to sweat anybody, but these are the facts." Rattling his rockets in the style he used to assail Western "military circles" for doing a few years ago, Khrushchev promised to "wipe from the face of the earth" any aggressor, and boasted: "Though the weapons we have now are formidable indeed, the weapon we have today in the hatching stage is even more formidable. The weapon, which is being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists and designers, is a fantastic weapon.
www.time.com...
Curtis, George D.
Text: "An electromagnetic radiation pattern over the ocean." Reports a previously unknown weak electromagnetic radiation pattern over the ocean. When all known effects are accounted for, the anomalous pattern still remains. Undersea Technology. 5(8), Aug. 1964. p. 29-30; 40.
www.svpvril.com...
Hey, I never claim to be absolutely right I always allow for the possiblity that things beyond my ken are occurring and that I may be wrong. But with regards any large scale weather manipulation I simply cannot see it, any more than I believe we already have faster than light space travel.
And I see no evidence of such technology and simply see nature as being bigger and more powerful and indeed stranger and more complex than we used to think. The more we learn the more we discover there is to learn.
I think it will be some centuries yet before we become a Type 1 civilisation. I don't think we're half as clever as we sometimes like to think.
But as we know from past discussions, we're never going to agree on this
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by Iamonlyhuman
Experts at weather modification. Accidentally drop a bag of cement but they're able to manipulate hurricanes? I think not.
Originally posted by TheMythLives
reply to post by wonderworld
Playing God only leads to Extraordinary problems. This is the worst thing ever, again lets keep our eyes open and maybe we will see some unusual behavior..
Originally posted by doctordoom
This thread is much appreciated by me.
Cloud seeding is a huge money making business that has gotten out of hand.
It's whats killing the birds
It's whats killing the bees
It's whats killing the trees.
It will kill us.
US Government project in development to simulate a "second coming" type event. This will culminate in a very large number of people being taken away into the sky as in a "rapture" type of situation. These events will be brought to fruition by use of the sky as a holographic projection screen for space-based, laser-generating satellites. These space-based projectors are said to project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet, in every language by region. It will pretend to be the universal fulfillment of the prophecies of old.