HAARP: Weather Modification

[Deborah]

And you thought we were crazy when we said they
created the Tsunami and Katrina on
purpose....Mwahahahaha !!!!!

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Subject: Weather Modification Bill in the Senate
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:07:27 -0500
 
Weather Modification Bill introduced in the senate
by Kay braindead Hutchinson  - and they said it
couldn't be done!

"The term  ``weather modification'' means changing
or controlling, or attempting to change or control, by artificial  methods the natural development of atmospheric cloud forms or precipitation forms which occur in the troposphere."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex ... l=s109-517
Introduced: Mar 3, 2005
Sponsor: Sen. Kay Hutchison R-TX
Status: Introduced (By Sen. Kay Hutchison R-TX
Last Action: Mar 3, 2005: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR
S2025-2026)
109TH CONGRESS
S. 517
1ST SESSION
 
To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 3, 2005
Mrs. HUTCHISON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

A BILL
To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the `Weather
Modification
5 Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of
6 2005''.
7 SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
8 It is the purpose of this Act to develop and
implement
9 a comprehensive and coordinated national weather
modi-
10 fication policy and a national cooperative
Federal and 2
1 State program of weather modification research and devel-
2 opment.
3 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
4 In this Act:
5 (1) BOARD.--The term ``Board'' means the
6 Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board.
7 (2) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.--The term ``Execu-
8 tive Director'' means the Executive Director of
the
9 Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board.
10 (3) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.--The term
11 ``research and development'' means theoretical
anal-
12 ysis, exploration, experimentation, and the
extension
13 of investigative findings and theories of
scientific or
14 technical nature into practical application for
experi-
15 mental and demonstration purposes, including the
16 experimental production and testing of models,
de-
17 vices, equipment, materials, and processes.
18 (4) WEATHER MODIFICATION.--The term
19 ``weather modification'' means changing or
control-
20 ling, or attempting to change or control, by
artificial
21 methods the natural development of atmospheric
22 cloud forms or precipitation forms which occur in
23 the troposphere.
S 517 IS
3
1 SEC. 4. WEATHER MODIFICATION ADVISORY AND RE-
 
2 SEARCH BOARD ESTABLISHED.
 
3 (a) IN GENERAL.--There is established in the De-4 partment of Commerce the Weather Modification> Advisory
5 and Research Board.
6 (b) MEMBERSHIP.--
7 (1) IN GENERAL.--The Board shall consist of
8 11 members appointed by the Secretary of Com-
9 merce, of whom--
10 (A) at least 1 shall be a representative of
11 the American Meteorological Society;
12 (B) at least 1 shall be a representative of
13 the American Society of Civil Engineers;
14 (C) at least 1 shall be a representative of
15 the National Academy of Sciences;
16 (D) at least 1 shall be a representative of
17 the National Center for Atmospheric Research
18 of the National Science Foundation;
19 (E) at least 2 shall be representatives of
20 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
21 istration of the Department of Commerce;
22 (F) at least 1 shall be a representative of
23 institutions of higher education or research in-
24 stitutes; and
 
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4
1 (G) at least 1 shall be a representative of
2 a State that is currently supporting operational
3 weather modification projects.
4 (2) TENURE.--A member of the Board serves
5 at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce.
6 (3) VACANCIES.--Any vacancy on the Board
7 shall be filled in the same manner as the original
ap-
8 pointment.
9 (b) ADVISORY COMMITTEES.--The Board may estab-
10 lish advisory committees to advise the Board and
to make
11 recommendations to the Board concerning
legislation, poli-
12 cies, administration, research, and other
matters.
13 (c) INITIAL MEETING.--Not later than 30 days
after
14 the date on which all members of the Board have
been
15 appointed, the Board shall hold its first
meeting.
16 (d) MEETINGS.--The Board shall meet at the call
of
17 the Chair.
18 (e) QUORUM.--A majority of the members of the
19 Board shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser
number of
20 members may hold hearings.
21 (f) CHAIR VICE CHAIR.--The Board shall select
AND
22 a Chair and Vice Chair from among its members.
23 SEC. 5. DUTIES OF THE BOARD.
24 (a) PROMOTION RESEARCH DEVELOP-
OF AND
25 MENT.--In order to assist in expanding the
theoretical
 
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5
1 and practical knowledge of weather modification,
the
2 Board shall promote and fund research and
development,
3 studies, and investigations with respect to--
4 (1) improved forecast and decision-making tech-
5 nologies for weather modification operations,
includ-
6 ing tailored computer workstations and software
and
7 new observation systems with remote sensors; and
8 (2) assessments and evaluations of the efficacy
9 of weather modification, both purposeful
(including
10 cloud-seeding operations) and inadvertent
(including
11 downwind effects and anthropogenic effects).
12 (b) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.--Unless the use of the
13 money is restricted or subject to any limitations provided
14 by law, the Board shall use amounts in the
Weather Modi-
15 fication Research and Development Fund--
16 (1) to pay its expenses in the administration of
17 this Act, and
18 (2) to provide for research and development
19 with respect to weather modifications by grants
to,
20 or contracts or cooperative arrangements, with
pub-
21 lic or private agencies.
22 (c) REPORT.--The Board shall submit to the Sec-23 retary biennially a report on its findings and
research re-
24 sults.
 
S 517 IS
6
1 SEC. 6. POWERS OF THE BOARD.
2 (a) STUDIES, INVESTIGATIONS, HEARINGS.--
AND
3 The Board may make any studies or investigations, obtain
4 any information, and hold any hearings necessary
or prop-
5 er to administer or enforce this Act or any rules or orders
6 issued under this Act.
7 (b) PERSONNEL.--The Board may employ, as pro-
8 vided for in appropriations Acts, an Executive
Director
9 and other support staff necessary to perform
duties and
10 functions under this Act.
11 (c) COOPERATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES.--The
12 Board may cooperate with public or private
agencies to
13 promote the purposes of this Act.
14 (d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.--The Board may
15 enter into cooperative agreements with the head
of any
16 department or agency of the United States, an
appropriate
17 official of any State or political subdivision of a State, or
18 an appropriate official of any private or public agency or
19 organization for conducting weather modification activities
20 or cloud-seeding operations.
21 (e) CONDUCT CONTRACTS RESEARCH
AND FOR AND
22 DEVELOPMENT.--The Executive Director, with the
ap-
23 proval of the Board, may conduct and may contract for
24 research and development activities relating to
the pur-
25 poses of this section.

S 517 IS
7
1 SEC. 7. COOPERATION WITH THE WEATHER MODIFICATION
2 OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH BOARD.
3 The heads of the departments and agencies of the
4 United States and the heads of any other public or private
5 agencies and institutions that receive research
funds from
6 the United States shall, to the extent possible,
give full
7 support and cooperation to the Board and to
initiate inde-
8 pendent research and development programs that
address
9 weather modifications.
10 SEC. 8. FUNDING.
11 (a) IN GENERAL.--There is established within the
12 Treasury of the United States the Weather
Modification
13 Research and Development Fund, which shall
consist of
14 amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (b)
or re-
15 ceived by the Board under subsection (c).
16 (b) AUTHORIZATION APPROPRIATIONS.--There is
OF
17 authorized to be appropriated to the Board for
the pur-
18 poses of carrying out the provisions of this Act
19 $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2014.
20 Any sums appropriated under this subsection shall remain
21 available, without fiscal year limitation, until expended.
22 (c) GIFTS.--The Board may accept, use, and
dispose
23 of gifts or donations of services or property.
24 SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE.
25 This Act shall take effect on October 1, 2005.

S 517 IS

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone has the current ability.

Remember the cloud seeding theory, I believe
it has run its course and proved ineffective.

[Anonymous]

We are in the cycle of strong storms.  

Back in the 60's there were a bunch
of bad storms too.

Whether HAARP was turned on or off
would not have effected this hurricane
season.

[Deborah]

FORWARD;
I don't get it. Kerry Emanuel and Peter Webster, both climate scientists provide recent data demonstrating that more intense hurricanes have occurred world wide over the last thirty years. NOAA hurricane experts William Grey and Max Mayfield dismiss the findings and declare that "warmer temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions will not make future hurricanes appreciably stronger." But it's already happening! I don't see how they can be so certain about global warmingand the weather when William Grey has often been noted to be wrong in
forecasting yearly hurricane events - particularly
last year.

Something is wrong. Very, very wrong. There are powerful players in climate policy decisions who will not permit the US Congress to get to the truth of it - best seen when a fiction writer is brought on by climate skeptics as an expert witness.

CLIMATE CHANGE
Warming science critic Michael Crichton to appear before Senate panel

Darren Samuelsohn, E&E Daily senior reporter
E&E DAILY
Monday, September 26, 2005

Best-selling author Michael Critchon will serve as the lead witness this week at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing
aimed at dissecting the touchy intersection between science and politics. Hurricanes and the growing body of evidence indicating storms are becoming more intense because of global warming are the main drivers for the hearing.

Crichton wrote the 2004 novel "State of Fear," which depicted environmentalists falsifying the scientific record on global warming. Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, the committee's chairman and an outspoken critic of environmental groups and the science behind global warming, has long touted Crichton's book as a must read for the public and especially lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

Besides Crichton's testimony, details on the Inhofe-led hearing were difficult to uncover Friday. Both Republicans and Democrats kept their witness lists and hearing strategies close to their chests.

A hearing on politics and science comes just days after the second major hurricane strike in a month on the U.S. Gulf Coast. While Inhofe has been busy touting statements from scientists and others who say there is no link, several peer-reviewed studies have been published in recent months that tie warming sea temperatures with
increases in the severity of hurricanes, with predictions of worse storms in the future.

The latest study, published in the journal Science, found that the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled in 35 years, although the total number has dropped since the 1990s. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research conducted the analysis.

John Marburger, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, acknowledged in an interview earlier this month that a link can be made between climate change and growing hurricane
strength. But Marburger also said the administration's approach to global warming -- focusing on greenhouse gas intensity reductions and low and zero-carbon technology development -- amply reflects those ties.

"There's a debate about what the appropriate way is to go about reducing carbon dioxide, but I don't think there's a debate about something needs to be done," Marburger said.

At a Senate hearing last week, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield offered a different view when he said that warmer temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions will not make future
hurricanes appreciably stronger. Citing a study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory, Mayfield explained that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would increase hurricane intensity just 5 percent by 2080.

"There's a very, very small chance that intensity will increase," Mayfield said. "We couldn't even measure this with the tools we have now."

(questionable remarks, see *)

Furthermore, while the number of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes has increased markedly since 1995 --"like somebody threw a switch," Mayfield said -- he attributed the rise to natural climate cycles.
The 1940s, '50s and '60s experienced strong hurricane activity, while the period from the 1970s to 1995 was much calmer, he said. "Natural
variability alone is what this can be attributed to."

Schedule: The hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, in 406 Dirksen.

Witnesses: Michael Crichton, author; other witnesses TBA.

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Footnote.
* The latest National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory study says this:


global warming and hurricanes

"The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Although we cannot say at present whether more or fewer hurricane will occur in the future with global warming, the
hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions. This expectation (Figure 1) is based on an anticipated enhancement of energy available to the storms due to higher tropical sea surface temperatures.
The results described above are based on a recent simulation study carried out by Thomas R. Knutson and Robert E. Tuleya at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).


This study examined the response of simulated hurricanes to the climate warming projected for a substantial build-up of atmospheric CO2. Such an increase in the upper-limit intensity of hurricanes with global warming was suggested on theoretical grounds by M.I.T. Professor Kerry Emanuel in 1987. The latest GFDL investigation is the most comprehensive simulation study of the issue to date, making use of future climate projections from nine different global climate
models and four different versions of a high-resolution hurricane prediction model. The hurricane model used for the study is an
enhanced resolution version of the model used to predict hurricanes operationally at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction."
[...]
"An implication of these studies is that if the frequency of tropical cyclones remains the same over the coming century, a greenhouse-gas induced warming may lead to a gradually increasing risk in the occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms"
last modified:August 19 2005

see also:

global warming and hurricanes

"The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Most hurricanes do not reach their maximum potential intensity before weakening over land or cooler ocean regions.
However, those storms that do approach their upper-limit intensity are expected to be slightly stronger -- and have more rainfall -- in the warmer climate due to the higher sea surface temperatures. And more recent work with more comprehensive models incorporating hurricane-generated "cool SST wakes" continue to support these conclusions.
Figure 1 ?
According to a simulation study by a group of scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), a 5-12% increase in wind speeds for the strongest hurricanes (typhoons) in the northwest tropical Pacific is projected if tropical sea surfaces warm by a little over 2 degrees C (Figure 1). Although such an increase in the upper-limit intensity of hurricanes with global warming was suggested on theoretical grounds a decade ago, this investigation is the first to examine the question using a hurricane prediction model that is being used operationally to simulate realistic hurricane structures."
[...]
last modified: February 29 2004.

Max Mayfield lowballed the numbers to a US Senate committee. Why?

[Antigen]

Here's a fun site:
http://www.weatherwars.info/

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
--George Washington

[Stripe]

If you have the ability, go back and look at the satellite pictures of Hurricane Katrina just before it made landfall in New Orleans.  Look at the eye of the storm and note that it is not clear.  It has, in some pictures, what appear to be cells or spokes, for lack of a better word to describe what I see.

Now, go back and look at pictures of Hurricane Andrew before it came on shore in Miami.  Look also at pictures of the hurricanes that made land fall last year. And look at pictrues of Hurricane Rita. None of them have this curious effect that is only caused by HAARP.

I'm not sure why it would be used here in the  US except for experimental purposes.  Or perhaps New Orleans was in dire need of a Mel Sembler strip mall development project make-over.

[Anonymous]

I have been aware of this story for about 5 years now. It is real. Hell even Putin from Russia claims they do it. Just do a google search on "Putin Weather Modification"

Here is a wild link

http://www.assassinationscience.com/HER ... middle.htm

[Anonymous]

OH my God look at this

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/dmetallica ... and=AOL_US

You can see it! Is that real? If it is then Damn dude.

That's very odd indeed

[Anonymous]

Holy sheep shit Batman...........

Weather Modification  run amuck...........


lol

[Anonymous]

Click for hyperlinks:
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... ntrol.html

     
Schemes to Control the Weather Clouded by Failure
By Robin Lloyd
Special to LiveScience
posted: 03 October 2005
11:12 am ET
   

Scientists agree they can't totally control the weather. But some experts think they can tame it a bit.

Schemes are wide-ranging, with proposals to throttle everything from fog to global warming. Results have been mixed and the controversy constant.

Nature's most powerful storms, hurricanes, are another matter. Hurricanes rely on warm water for fuel. Experts disavow schemes from ocean plowing (to cool the water and remove the energy source) to dragging icebergs into the path of a storm.

Smaller-scale weather systems might be more open to change.

One idea floated a few years back was to beam microwave energy from a satellite to disrupt the convection that drives a tornado. Another idea that remains alive after decades of research is cloud-seeding to increase or decrease rain, fog or hail in certain locations.

Give it a try

Despite a lack of firm evidence that the efforts work, states such as California, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada have recently spent money on cloud seeding to increase precipitation or reduce hail or fog.

Cloud seeding puts chemicals, usually silver iodide, into clouds to condense their moisture into ice, which falls down as snow or rain. The chemicals are either fired up from the ground or dropped from aircraft.

Hurricanes from Above

Some research shows that cloud seeding works best on clouds that form as moist air cools when it moves across mountain ranges. These are called orographic clouds and mainly form in the winter. It's trickier with the billowy cumulus clouds that are the main source of rainfall in all seasons.

Federal officials were enthusiastic about cloud seeding research in the 1960s and '70s.

Joanne Simpson, a UCLA professor who later worked for the National Weather Bureau (which became NOAA), was the first person to develop a computer model for cloud behavior. She went on to investigate cloud seeding to test her models and to try to reduce the strength of hurricanes. Though she had successes, the overall results were inconclusive and the projects fizzled.

Get used to it

A 2003 report published by the National Research Council (NRC) put a damper on the idea of weather modification, saying there was no convincing scientific proof that cloud seeding works.

The Weather Modification Association (WMA) differs, saying the NRC's standard for proof was so high that the same standard would disprove global warming, humans' less intentional weather modification effort.

(A far-out scheme to slow global warming has also been proposed. It involves ringing Earth with tiny satellites to shade the planet.)

The WMA also favors more efforts to seed and thus clear fog by injecting it with dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid propane or silver iodide, especially to clear airport runways for take-offs and landings. This works better with cool fog than with warm fog, research suggests.

Efforts to reduce the size of hailstones are progressing too, according to the WMA. Adding silver iodide smoke into storms appears to limit the growth of hailstones.

But many scientists think research dollars are better spent on improved storm preparation and reaction plans.

"My research is grounded in the practical application of science and logic, which tells me it is far better to work with nature rather than trying to control or to change her," Clemson University civil engineer David Prevatt told LiveScience.

Extreme weather is inevitable, Prevatt says, and our best bet is to use science and engineering to study extreme winds and floods, to predict the consequences, and to focus on more weather-resistant buildings and levees and smart development policy.

[Anonymous]

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... aster.html

Joanne Simpson predicted in the 1960s that seeding a cloud would cause it to double in height. She bootlegged aircraft time during Project Stormfury, a weather modification experiment started in 1961 by her future husband, Bob Simpson. She flew above clouds and ejected flares that ignited and created silver iodide smoke. The clouds behaved just as her computer model predicted.

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Hurricanes Can't be Tamed
By The Associated Press

posted: 03 October 2005
09:20 am ET
   

It sounds like a great idea: Let's just blast hurricanes like Rita and Katrina out of the sky before they hurt more people. Or, at least weaken the storms and steer them away from cities.

Atmospheric scientists say it's wishful thinking that we could destroy or even influence something as huge and powerful as a hurricane. They abandoned such a quest years ago after more than two decades of inconclusive government-sponsored research.

Private companies have conducted tests on a much smaller scale, but have made little progress despite initially claiming to erase storm clouds from the atmosphere.

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"It would be like trying to move a car with a pea shooter,'' said hydrometeorologist Matthew Kelsch of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "The amount of energy involved in a hurricane is far greater that anything we're going to impart to it.''

The federal government's hurricane modification program was called Project Stormfury. The idea was raised during the Eisenhower administration after several major storms hit the East Coast in the mid-1950s, killing 749 people and causing billions in damages.

But it wasn't until 1961 that initial tests were conducted on Hurricane Esther with a Navy plane releasing silver iodide crystals. Some reports indicate winds were reduced by 10 percent to 30 percent.

During Stormfury, scientists also seeded hurricanes in 1963, 1969 and 1971 over the open Atlantic Ocean far from land.

Researchers dropped silver iodide, a substance that serves as an effective ice nuclei, into clouds just outside of the hurricane's eyewall. The idea was that a new ring of clouds would form around the artificial ice nuclei. The new clouds were supposed to change rain patterns and form a new eyewall that would collapse the old one. The reformed hurricane would spin more slowly and be less dangerous.

Sometimes, the experiments appeared to work. Hurricane Debbie in 1969 was seeded twice over four days by several aircraft. Researchers noted that its intensity waxed and waned by up to 30 percent.

For cloud seeding to be successful, clouds must contain sufficient supercooled water that is still liquid even though it is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Raindrops form when the artificial nuclei and the supercooled water combine.

But scientists also learned that hurricanes contain less supercooled water than other storm clouds, so seeding was unreliable. And, hurricanes grow and dissipate all on their own, even forming new walls of clouds called "concentric eyewall circles.''

This made it impossible to determine whether storm reductions were the result of human intervention. Project Stormfury was abandoned in the 1980s after spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Other storm modification methods that have been suggested include cooling the tropical ocean with icebergs and spreading particles or films over the ocean surface to inhibit storms from evaporating heat from the sea.

Occasionally, somebody suggests detonating a nuclear weapon to shatter a storm.

Researchers say hurricanes would dwarf such measures. For example, Hurricane Rita measures about 400 miles across.

According to the center for atmospheric research, the heat energy released by a hurricane equals 50 to 200 trillion watts or about the same amount of energy released by exploding a 10-megaton nuclear bomb every 20 minutes.