Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

Former 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 expert

Ben Livingston.

 

Livingston discussed in detail proven evidence of hurricane control

and his research and experiences with cloud seeding and weather

weapons used in the Vietnam war.

 

Prisonplanet.tv rs click here to listen to the interview in full

 

Related: Ben Livingston: Cloud physicist has eye on hurricane control

 

Many scoff at the possibility of weather control and simply refuse to

believe it exists. Attempting to even engage such people in

conversation on the subject is fruitless because their mind is set.

Yet the reality is that weather modification has been in operation and

continual development since the 1960s.

 

Livingston, now 77, has a master's degree in cloud physics from the

Naval Weapons Center and Navy Post Graduate School in California, a

degree he later used in the battlefields.

 

According to a recent report " He seeded clouds and dramatically

increased rainfall in his theater of war, creating impassably muddy

roads, slowing down the Vietnamese and Korean troops, and saving lives

and entire towns from occupation. "

 

Livingston was even invited to the White House where he briefed

President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control

activities. Livingston asserts that hurricane control was a national

priority of the government in the 60s and they had the ability to do

it 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 by

the Stanford Research Institute.

 

He has personally flown on 265 missions into the eyes of hurricanes

and has gone on record as " most disgusted " with Hurricane Katrina

because he knows that the storm itself could have been minimized.

 

Livingston revealed that to reduce or redirect a category 4 hurricane

would not be that difficult:

 

" A hurricane is made up of energy sails and each of those sails adds

to the ferocity of it. It was proven in 1974 by an international

project that these energy sails exist and that they are the reason

that hurricanes can develop and grow move and cause damages. So

there's no reason to attack the hurricane in total but just to fly in

to the right front quadrant primarily relative to the direction the

storm is moving in and seed those energy sails that are converging and

making the rain and wind velocity increase in the front part of a

hurricane. " 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 the

velocity in these individual energy sails by seeding the clouds with

silver iodide in the top part of the cloud... and those tops would

then have so many small droplets in them that the prevailing wind just

blows them away and so an energy sail would be neutralized until it

can regroup which may be several hours later. "

 

The seeding process may sound complicated but it is not at all. There

would be no need for more than two small aircraft at a time to safely

fly upwards into the hurricane.

 

" We're carrying more cloud seeding material on one airplane now, over

800% more on each plane than we had during Project Storm Fury " (The

project set up by the US Government to discover how to control

hurricanes in the 60s). Livingston added.

 

Alex put the question to Livingston, if it is so simple to do and the

government knows how to do it and has been doing it since the 60s then

why did they not attempt to minimize hurricane Katrina?

 

" This is a long story with a deep history. Back in the mid 50s, 1954

or so, the government allotted the first amount of money for weather

modification and weather control practices to the US weather Bureau to

the tune of about 30 million dollars. " Livingston said.

 

" Their charge was to employ the most brilliant scientists around the

world, and meteorologists and physicists, to work out a concept for

reducing damages from hurricanes. What brought that on was that we had

three tremendous hurricanes in 1953 and '54 that affected the twelve

northeastern states... Basically The National Oceanic Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) was formed to take that responsibility. " He went

on to say.

 

Mr Livingston went on to describe how Project " Storm Fury " of which he

was a national director was then set up in the mid 60s. Much of the

research was carried out on hurricanes in the Atlantic at that time.

 

Project Storm Fury was shut down on the logic that the data was not

good enough to use in statistical studies. Many believe that the

research then became part of a black operation on weather modification.

 

Upon recently writing to verify what the national policy is on

hurricane research, Livingston received the following response:

 

" The approach of NOAA with regard to minimizing the impact of

hurricanes on US citizens is to improve our forecast on the tracking

and intensity of storms and to better warn those in harm's way. It is

no longer the policy of NOAA to support or conduct weather

modification research. "

 

So there is effectively no official government budget for weather

modification of any kind. This would not however prevent the hiring of

private companies such as Weather Modification, Inc. to carry out the

relatively simple work for around $25 million for the hurricane

season. This is a small amount when considering the billions spent on

rebuilding and clearing up after hurricanes.

 

" The situation is as I see it that the Federal Government and NOAA

have a tremendous job to do and they're doing a tremendous job. But

their interest is in statistical data...where as people who are

concerned about hurricane damages are interested more in results or

empirical data. " Livingston added.

 

Dr Livingston went on to read a statement from the Stanford research

Institute who were brought into Project Storm Fury in the late sixties

as a third party, which stated conclusively that knowledge of how to

stop hurricanes had been uncovered and that they would be directly

liable should a hurricane hit and cause extensive damage and loss of life.

 

Livingston revealed that on the 18th August 1969, five seedings at two

hour intervals on Hurricane Debbie, researchers deduced that the wind

speed had decreased from 115mph to 80 mph. That is a 30% reduction and

a 45% reduction in damages. On August 20th a second seeding decreased

the wind speed again to just under 100 mph, a reduction of around 15%.

Some scientists involved wanted more research and to uncover clearer

patterns so they brought in Stanford as a third party, who determined

that more seeding should be done for damage reduction.

 

Of course, during the Vietnam war the goal for Livingston and his

colleagues was to actually strengthen adverse weather, to inflate and

exacerbate the monsoon season in order that the Vietnamese get bogged

down. So not only is prevention possible, but also creation of harsh

weather conditions.

 

Dr Livingston was assigned in 1966 from the Naval weapons research

Laboratory to a marine fighter squadron in Vietnam. Instead of guns,

the aircraft under Livingston's control were fitted with cloud seeding

equipment.

 

" My mission was to find clouds and seed them for maximum precipitation

value " he commented.

 

Cloud seeding is the process of spreading either dry ice (or more

commonly, silver iodide aerosols) into the upper part of clouds to try

to stimulate the precipitation process and form rain. Since most

rainfall starts through the growth of ice crystals from super-cooled

cloud droplets (droplets colder than the freezing point, 32 deg. F) in

the upper parts of clouds, the silver iodide particles are meant to

encourage the growth of new ice particles.

 

Check Out this local Government web page on Weather Modification. It's

Amazing how people still believe that this science does not exist!

http://www.water.utah.gov/waterplan/uwrpff/Chp-06c.htm

 

Airborne hygroscopic flares emit water-attracting particles into cloud

updrafts during a recent cloud-seeding project in Mexico.

 

Alex went on to ask Dr Livingston whether it was dangerous flying into

hurricanes, and whether that was a factor that could have prevented

operations going ahead.

 

" A good part of the time you're out in the most beautiful VFR weather

you've ever seen. If it's night you can see the stars, the moon, if

it's daytime the sun or whatever. So you can not only see what you're

going to seed, you can analyze it on your radar... generally speaking

its 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 for

political reasons.

 

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