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Highlights this year include:
DR. Paul Bernhardt KF4FOR - Dr. Bernhardt is the Senior research physicist for the Naval Research laboratory. He heads HAARP at the Naval research laboratory facility in Alaska and Arecebo in Puerto Rico. Dr. Bernhardt will present a program outlining the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP).
Dr. Bernhardt used the high-power HF facility near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, from 1985 to 1999, to record the first Charged Coupled Device CCD images of artificial aurora at mid latitudes. These images illuminated natural and artificial irregularities in the ionosphere. He served on the Arecibo Users and Science Advisory Council from 1992 to 1994. Dr. Bernhardt is currently sponsored for ionospheric modification research by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska.
Dr. Bernhardt has published over 100 papers in ionospheric and space physics. He holds patents for hyper-spectral imaging and radio beacon design. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as a member of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. Dr. Bernhardt is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) through the Division of Plasma Physics. He is also a member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). For AGU, Dr. Bernhardt has been an associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) and the journal Radio Science as well as a member of the AGU Books Board Editor. He is also a member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) where he was Chairman of the US Commission on Waves in Plasmas from 1994-1997. He is a member of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS) of the IEEE. Dr. Bernhardt is currently a member-at-large of the US National Commission of URSI.
Originally posted by EvolvedMinistry
I have noticed a trend. Now, many skeptics will come in here and make gratuitous claims that what we are experiencing weather wise is simply mother nature, and others will claim that global warming is taking its affect.
I am under a different impression. For instance, has anyone noticed that almost every other year there is a new weather crisis that stays focused merely on that particular phenomenon? For instance, in 2005, the only thing that was occurring was Hurricanes. You didn't hear about tornadoes, mudslides, tsunamis or volcanoes...it was simply Hurricanes. Lets take a look at some of this stuff...shall we?
2005: We had Hurricane Katrina, Dennis, Emily, Rita and Wilma. Hurricane Katrina was especially strange since it was the only Hurricane on record EVER to sit for 2 days inland without any movement. This is an anomaly since it takes movement in order to keep the storm active. Not only was this the most active season in recorded history, but, it also had two of the strongest measured Hurricanes in recorded history. Katrina and Rita. en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by wreckage
The HAARP website says, “Since the ionosphere is, inherently, a turbulent medium that is being both ‘stirred up’ and renewed by the sun, artificially induced effects are quickly obliterated. Depending on the height within the ionosphere where the effect is originally produced, these effects are no longer detectable after times ranging from less than a second to 10 minutes.” Once again, local changes to the ionosphere resulting from HAARP are many orders of magnitude less than those global changes caused by variations in the Sun’s energy output. According to the HAARP Environmental Impact Statement, there are no significant impacts to the ionosphere, and therefore, no mitigation measures are required.
Can HAARP create a hole in the ionosphere?
According to the HAARP website, “No. Any effects produced by HAARP are miniscule compared with the natural day-night variations that occur in the ionosphere. Several ionospheric layers completely disappear naturally over a whole hemisphere during the evening hours. HAARP can’t come close to producing this effect, even in the limited region directly over the site.”
What effect will HAARP have on the Earth’s magnetic field?
According to the HAARP website, HAARP’s transmitter “becomes useless during a geomagnetic storm. During these common solar induced events, the natural variations reach a level that is more than 10,000 times stronger than any variation that HAARP could produce… The Earth’s static magnetic field, in turn, is more than 1,000 times stronger than the variations that occur during a magnetic storm and more than 10,000,000 times stronger than the variations that HAARP could produce.”
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Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by indiana4jones
You're right. I wasn't accurate. Not nothing. Not completely transparent. A loss of .008dB for each kilometer.
3G towers put out only about 3 watts. The amount absorbed from that is pretty tiny. I wouldn't worry about it heating up the atmosphere very much. A sunny day does a heck of a lot more.
[edit on 3/17/2010 by Phage]
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
reply to post by DClairvoyant
Various militaries have detonated atomic and hydrogen weapons
in the ionosphere and space just to see what would happen. Bright huh!
Originally posted by indiana4jones
reply to post by Phage
I appreciate the discussion, not that I entirely agree, you apparently haven't lived in Michigan for ~35 yrs, because this is a very cold planet--or at least it is supposed to be--over here, you can tell the thermal balance of the air is being jacked with in these parts.
Now if only I could get access to some of the equipment onsite and see what it does, that might actually prove or disprove a thing or two, maybe I could attach a motive to what I theorize that the base station transceiver is doing--that would go along way. I need to see the equipment and get specs on what it does.
-IJ
[edit on 17-3-2010 by indiana4jones]