Weather Warfare
Beware the
‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change.
Rarely
acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the world’s weather can
now be
During the
Vietnam war, cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting
in 1967 under Project Popeye, the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon
season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The
From a
military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction, operating from the
outer atmosphere and capable of destabilising
agricultural and ecological systems around the world.
Weather-modification,
according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, ‘offers the
war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary’,
capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts
and earthquakes:
‘Weather
modification will become a part of domestic and international security and
could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications
and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate
precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the production
of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of [military]
technologies.’
In 1977, an
international Convention was ratified by the UN General Assembly which banned
‘military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread,
long-lasting or severe effects.’ It defined ‘environmental modification techniques’
as ‘any technique for changing – through the deliberate manipulation of natural
processes – the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth, including its
biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.’
While the
substance of the 1977 Convention was reasserted in the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992 Earth
Neither is
the possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a
military and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, part of the
broader debate on climate change under UN auspices.
The HAARP Programme.
Established
in 1992, HAARP, based in
Operated
jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, HAARP
constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating ‘controlled local
modifications of the ionosphere’. According to its official website,
www.haarp.alaska.edu,
But Rosalie Bertell,
president of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health, says
HAARP operates as ‘a gigantic heater that can cause major disruptions in the ionosphere,
creating not just holes, but long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly
radiation from bombarding the planet’. Physicist Dr Bernard Eastlund
called it ‘the largest ionospheric heater ever
built’.
HAARP is presented by the US Air Force as a research programme, but military documents confirm its main objective is to ‘induce ionospheric modifications’ with a view to altering weather patterns
and disrupting communications and radar.
According to a report by the
An analysis of statements emanating from the
HAARP was developed as part of an Anglo-American
partnership between Raytheon Corporation, which owns the HAARP patents, and
British Aerospace Systems (BAES). The
BAES was involved in the development of the advanced
stage of the HAARP antenna array under a 2004 contract with the Office of Naval
Research. The installation of 132 highfrequency
The HAARP system is fully operational and in many
regards dwarfs existing conventional and strategic weapons systems. While there
is no firm evidence of its use for military purposes, Air Force documents
suggest HAARP is an integral part of the militarisation
of space. One would expect the antennas already to have been subjected to
routine testing.
Under the UNFCCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) has a mandate ‘to assess scientific, technical and
socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of climate change’.
This mandate includes environmental warfare.
‘Geo-engineering’ is acknowledged, but the underlying
military applications are neither the object of policy analysis or scientific research
in the thousands of pages of IPCC reports and supporting documents, based on the
expertise and input of some 2,500 scientists, policymakers and
environmentalists.
‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future
of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC
received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Michel Chossudovsky is a
Professor of
Economics at the
an editor at the Centre for Research on
Globalization, www.globalresearch.ca
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/haarpecologist.pdf