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Harnessing Weather: Allegations Surface That US, Russia Have

Technology to Manage Hurricanes

 

 

 

 

Author Sydney Sheldon said, ¡°The old adage that everyone talks about

the weather but no one does anything about it is no longer valid,¡± in

an afterword to his fascinating novel Are You Afraid of the Dark?

 

 

 

Harnessing Weather: Allegations Surface That US, Russia Have

Technology to Manage Hurricanes

 

American Free Press/Mike Blair | September 5 2005

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/harnessing_weather.html

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/050905managehurricanes.htm

 

 

 

Author Sydney Sheldon said, ¡°The old adage that everyone talks about

the weather but no one does anything about it is no longer valid,¡± in

an afterword to his fascinating novel Are You Afraid of the Dark?

 

¡°Today,¡± Sheldon continued, ¡°two superpowers have the ability to

control weather around the world: the United States and Russia. Other

countries, probably China and North Korea, are working feverishly to

catch up.¡±

 

 

 

As this article was being written the aftereffects of Hurricane

Katrina were still being felt in the southeastern United States, after

it caused billions of dollars in damage along the Gulf of Mexico

coast, and the death toll from the killer storm was still being tabulated.

 

Could this devastation have been avoided? Could Katrina itself have

been avoided as a death-dealing hurricane?

 

 

 

The answers to both questions are probably ¡°Yes.¡± The ability of

Russia and the United States to create storms of this magnitude

definitely exists.

 

The big question that remains is, why, then, wasn¡¯t Katrina stopped

before it devastated three states¡ªLouisiana, Alabama and

Mississippi¡ªalong the Gulf Coast?

 

 

 

There could be any number of reasons, but all would be mere

speculation, as the fact is nothing was done to stop Katrina.

 

Those who doubt that Katrina, or any other hurricane, could be

stopped¡ªor created¡ªcan find substantiation in a long-forgotten

article by Chen May Yee in the Nov. 13, 1997, issue of The Wall Street

Journal.

 

 

 

The article recounts an offer by the Russians to aid Malaysia to

create a typhoon to dissipate a pall of smoke that hung over the

country¡ªand still does¡ªcaused by the burning of large sections of

the rain forests in Indonesia and Sumatra.

 

To quote from the article: Datuk Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia¡¯s minister

for science, technology and the environment at the time, said his

country ¡°would use special technology to create an artificial cyclone

to clean the air.¡±

 

 

 

The article went on to say that a Malaysian company, BicCure Sdn.

Bhd., would sign a memorandum of understanding with a government-owned

Russian company to create a cyclone that would cause torrential rains

and thus cleanse the air over Malaysia of the smoke and ash.

 

 

 

What Russian company was the Malaysian official talking about?

 

On Oct. 2, 1992, The Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian

company, Elate Intelligent Technologies, Inc., has weather control

equipment for sale and uses the advertising slogan of ¡°weather made

to order.¡±

 

 

 

Igor Pirogoff, director of the company, said ¡°Elate is capable of

fine-tuning weather patterns over a 200-squaremile area for as little

as $200 U.S. per day,¡± the newspaper reported.

 

A year before the article was written, Hurricane Andrew caused $30

billion in damages as it plowed through the South. Pirogoff said

Andrew could have been turned into ¡°a wimpy little squall.¡±

 

 

 

According to a UN pamphlet, titled Basic Facts about the United

Nations, which was published in 1994, the world body negotiated the

Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of

Environmental Modification Techniques in 1977. This ¡°prohibits the

use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe

effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause

such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves, and changes in climate and

in weather patterns.¡±

 

 

 

Getting back to Malaysia, where the potential for creating or

dissipating cyclones seems to have made its first appearance, there

was never any follow-up to the stories about Elate and whether in fact

the cyclone was created, although it was approved by the Malaysian

government.

 

A call by American Free Press to the Malaysian Embassy in

Washington found no one there with any knowledge of the

subject.

 

 

However, there was more success when the Malaysian delegation to the

UN was contacted in New York. There, a spokesman claimed to have no

knowledge of the creation of a cyclone, but was willing to discuss

weather control in his country.

 

The official said that, by using weather control technology, rain

could be created and was being created over the nation¡¯s capital of

Kuala Lumpur.

 

 

 

He said that often rain was created over the city to cleanse the air

of the smoke emanating from Indonesia, and particularly Sumatra.

 

He indicated he did not know if the technology being used had been

obtained from Russia, but it would appear that such technology to

create rain on demand would not have been developed in a Third World

country like Malaysia.

 

 

 

There have been numerous reports in recent years about strange changes

in the jet stream, which have created alterations in the weather.

 

In 1982 a report by a Pentagon researcher, identified as L. Ponte,

noted that ¡°the Soviets have made advances in bending the

all-important jet stream that sweeps across Siberia to set global wind

patterns. By using explosive devices in the jet stream, scientists are

trying to make it dip and rise in a wave that could replace the frigid

Siberian winters with milder air from the South.¡±

 

 

 

How this would affect weather in other parts of the world was not

reported by Ponte, but there have been dozens of reports since his

1982 report about changes in the jet stream¡¯s normal behavior.

 

In 1996, a group of seven U.S. Air Force officers, who had prepared a

research paper about weather warfare, issued a report, which concluded

that there was technology under development that would provide

¡°warriors of the future¡± with the means to control the course of

military conflicts, including through the use of weather modification.

 

 

 

The study also states that manipulation of precipitation, storms and

fog could improve America¡¯s own weather but could also involve

controlling the ionosphere to guarantee U.S. dominance of worldwide

communications.

 

Is major weather control really possible? Is weather manipulation a

means of conducting war? If not, why in 1977 did the United States,

the then-Soviet Union and dozens of other countries believe it was a

good idea to enact a UN treaty banning weather manipulation as a means

of conducting war?

 

 

 

In the afterword of his book, Sheldon concludes:

 

¡°Weather is the most powerful force we know. Whoever controls it can

disrupt world economies with perpetual rainstorms or tornadoes; wipe

out crops in a drought; cause earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis;

close world airports and cause devastation on enemy battlefields. ¡°We

could all sleep better if a world leader said, ¡®Everyone talks about

the weather, but no one does anything about it, and it was true.¡±