Government Can Control Hurricanes

June 25, 2006

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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control HurricanesFormer Vet "Made it Rain" During Vietnam War

Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson | 14 Oct 2005

Alex Jones was joined on air yesterday by weather modification expertBen Livingston.

Livingston discussed in detail proven evidence of hurricane controland his research and experiences with cloud seeding and weatherweapons used in the Vietnam war.

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Many scoff at the possibility of weather control and simply refuse tobelieve it exists. Attempting to even engage such people inconversation on the subject is fruitless because their mind is set.Yet the reality is that weather modification has been in operation andcontinual development since the 1960s.

Livingston, now 77, has a master's degree in cloud physics from theNaval Weapons Center and Navy Post Graduate School in California, adegree he later used in the battlefields.

According to a recent report "He seeded clouds and dramaticallyincreased rainfall in his theater of war, creating impassably muddyroads, slowing down the Vietnamese and Korean troops, and saving livesand entire towns from occupation."

Livingston was even invited to the White House where he briefedPresident Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather controlactivities. Livingston asserts that hurricane control was a nationalpriority of the government in the 60s and they had the ability to doit at that time. That was 40 years ago.

He now works with scientists and pilots at Weather Modification Inc.,in Fargo, N.D. His research of hurricane control has been confirmed bythe Stanford Research Institute.

He has personally flown on 265 missions into the eyes of hurricanesand has gone on record as "most disgusted" with Hurricane Katrinabecause he knows that the storm itself could have been minimized.

Livingston revealed that to reduce or redirect a category 4 hurricanewould not be that difficult:

"A hurricane is made up of energy sails and each of those sails addsto the ferocity of it. It was proven in 1974 by an internationalproject that these energy sails exist and that they are the reasonthat hurricanes can develop and grow move and cause damages. Sothere's no reason to attack the hurricane in total but just to fly into the right front quadrant primarily relative to the direction thestorm is moving in and seed those energy sails that are converging andmaking the rain and wind velocity increase in the front part of ahurricane." Livingston asserted.

He went on to explain exactly how to minimize and control the hurricane:

" We would be trying to destroy or at least grossly reduce thevelocity in these individual energy sails by seeding the clouds withsilver iodide in the top part of the cloud... and those tops wouldthen have so many small droplets in them that the prevailing wind justblows them away and so an energy sail would be neutralized until itcan regroup which may be several hours later."

The seeding process may sound complicated but it is not at all. Therewould be no need for more than two small aircraft at a time to safelyfly upwards into the hurricane.

"We're carrying more cloud seeding material on one airplane now, over800% more on each plane than we had during Project Storm Fury" (Theproject set up by the US Government to discover how to controlhurricanes in the 60s). Livingston added.

Alex put the question to Livingston, if it is so simple to do and thegovernment knows how to do it and has been doing it since the 60s thenwhy did they not attempt to minimize hurricane Katrina?

"This is a long story with a deep history. Back in the mid 50s, 1954or so, the government allotted the first amount of money for weathermodification and weather control practices to the US weather Bureau tothe tune of about 30 million dollars." Livingston said.

"Their charge was to employ the most brilliant scientists around theworld, and meteorologists and physicists, to work out a concept forreducing damages from hurricanes. What brought that on was that we hadthree tremendous hurricanes in 1953 and '54 that affected the twelvenortheastern states... Basically The National Oceanic AtmosphericAdministration (NOAA) was formed to take that responsibility." He wenton to say.

Mr Livingston went on to describe how Project "Storm Fury" of which hewas a national director was then set up in the mid 60s. Much of theresearch was carried out on hurricanes in the Atlantic at that time.

Project Storm Fury was shut down on the logic that the data was notgood enough to use in statistical studies. Many believe that theresearch then became part of a black operation on weather modification.

Upon recently writing to verify what the national policy is onhurricane research, Livingston received the following response:

"The approach of NOAA with regard to minimizing the impact ofhurricanes on US citizens is to improve our forecast on the trackingand intensity of storms and to better warn those in harm's way. It isno longer the policy of NOAA to support or conduct weathermodification research."

So there is effectively no official government budget for weathermodification of any kind. This would not however prevent the hiring ofprivate companies such as Weather Modification, Inc. to carry out therelatively simple work for around $25 million for the hurricaneseason. This is a small amount when considering the billions spent onrebuilding and clearing up after hurricanes.

"The situation is as I see it that the Federal Government and NOAAhave a tremendous job to do and they're doing a tremendous job. Buttheir interest is in statistical data...where as people who areconcerned about hurricane damages are interested more in results orempirical data." Livingston added.

Dr Livingston went on to read a statement from the Stanford researchInstitute who were brought into Project Storm Fury in the late sixtiesas a third party, which stated conclusively that knowledge of how tostop hurricanes had been uncovered and that they would be directlyliable should a hurricane hit and cause extensive damage and loss of life.

Livingston revealed that on the 18th August 1969, five seedings at twohour intervals on Hurricane Debbie, researchers deduced that the windspeed had decreased from 115mph to 80 mph. That is a 30% reduction anda 45% reduction in damages. On August 20th a second seeding decreasedthe wind speed again to just under 100 mph, a reduction of around 15%.Some scientists involved wanted more research and to uncover clearerpatterns so they brought in Stanford as a third party, who determinedthat more seeding should be done for damage reduction.

Of course, during the Vietnam war the goal for Livingston and hiscolleagues was to actually strengthen adverse weather, to inflate andexacerbate the monsoon season in order that the Vietnamese get boggeddown. So not only is prevention possible, but also creation of harshweather conditions.

Dr Livingston was assigned in 1966 from the Naval weapons researchLaboratory to a marine fighter squadron in Vietnam. Instead of guns,the aircraft under Livingston's control were fitted with cloud seedingequipment.

"My mission was to find clouds and seed them for maximum precipitationvalue" he commented.

Cloud seeding is the process of spreading either dry ice (or morecommonly, silver iodide aerosols) into the upper part of clouds to tryto stimulate the precipitation process and form rain. Since mostrainfall starts through the growth of ice crystals from super-cooledcloud droplets (droplets colder than the freezing point, 32 deg. F) inthe upper parts of clouds, the silver iodide particles are meant toencourage the growth of new ice particles.

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Airborne hygroscopic flares emit water-attracting particles into cloudupdrafts during a recent cloud-seeding project in Mexico.

Alex went on to ask Dr Livingston whether it was dangerous flying intohurricanes, and whether that was a factor that could have preventedoperations going ahead.

"A good part of the time you're out in the most beautiful VFR weatheryou've ever seen. If it's night you can see the stars, the moon, ifit's daytime the sun or whatever. So you can not only see what you'regoing to seed, you can analyze it on your radar... generally speakingits not very hazardous flying." Livingston answered.

Dr Livingston puts beyond doubt the reality of weather modification.His take on Hurricane Katrina is that it was not prevented forpolitical reasons.

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