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WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT WANT TO CONTROL THE WEATHER?
 Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:41 pm
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_mystery_monday.html
The one-two hurricane punch from Katrina and Wilma along with predictions of more severe weather in the future has scientists pondering ways to save lives, protect property and possibly even control the weather.
While efforts to tame storms have so far been clouded by failure, some researchers aren’t willing to give up the fight. And even if changing the weather proves overly challenging, residents and disaster officials can do a better job planning and reacting.
In fact, military officials and weather modification experts could be on the verge of joining forces to better gauge, react to, and possibly nullify future hostile forces churned out by Mother Nature.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html
Environmental warfare is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575179/posts
Someday the U.S. military could drive a trailer to a spot just beyond insurgent fighting and, within minutes, reconfigure part of the atmosphere, blocking an enemy's ability to receive satellite signals, even as U.S. troops are able to see into the area with radar.
"This scenario may not be far away," says Defense Tech pal Sharon Weinberger in this month's edition of the always-excellent Defense Technology International.
An engineer with Research Support Instruments in Princeton, N.J. recently completed the first phase of work for a U.S. Air Force sponsored project called Microwave Ionosphere Reconfiguration Ground based Emitter, or Mirage.
The work involves using plasma — an ionized gas — to reconfigure the ionosphere. Mirage would employ a microwave transmitter on the ground and a small rocket that shoots chaff into the air to produce about a liter of plasma at 60-100 km. (36- 60 mi.) in altitude, changing the number of electrons in a select area of the ionosphere to create a virtual barrier. Ionosphere reconfiguration offers two major applications of interest to the military: bouncing radars off the ionosphere, also known as over-the-horizon radar, and the ability to jam signals from the Global Positioning Satellite system, according to John Kline, the lead investigator for Mirage.
This work is only the latest effort in Kline's more extensive investigations of atmospheric plasmas… Before Mirage, Kline had another contract for a project called Plasma Point Defense, which explored the possibility of using a plasma weapon on board a U.S. Navy surface vessel to protect against threats ranging from surface-to-surface missiles to mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
In the past, NASA's fringe science arm has looked into tweaking Mother Nature, to throw hurricanes off their course. But those were just computer simulations. No one actually tried to go out a build some weather control machine
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art816.html
2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future. Presented on 17 June 1996, this report was produced in the Department of Defense school environment of academic freedom and in the interest of advancing concepts related to national defense. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the United States government.
MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION ....WHY WOULD COMPANIES THAT SELL WEATHER DERVIATIVES WANT TO CONTROL THE WEATHER?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ENRON+WEATHER+CONTROL+DERIVATIVES
http://www.anjelinabelakovskaia.com/press/USAToday.html
Weather forecasting has improved enough -- and the stakes have shot up enough -- that companies no longer accept the weather as a pure gamble.
Energy giants such as Williams and Koch Industries are strategizing against Mother Nature, employing supercomputers and hiring meteorologists at more than twice what the National Weather Service pays in an aggressive attempt to profit from forecasting expertise.
Demantra, a consultant that has long tried to help companies such as Ford Motor, Sears and Wal-Mart predict swings in demand due to the economy and other factors, has teamed with weather and climate forecaster Planalytics to predict, for example, where spring weather will arrive a few weeks early so that home-improvement centers can stock lawn fertilizer.
Forty-four state departments of transportation pay Surface Systems (SSI) to tell them when highways should be salted for ice. SSI has 1,800 roadside monitors that measure pavement temperature, moisture and how much salt has been applied. Roads require just one-tenth the salt if it's applied just before the snow falls, not after. It's especially important to predict if the pavement won't freeze at all, which can save states $50,000 and more per winter storm, says George Reed, SSI general manager.
Until recently, the National Weather Service would have been more at home as part of the Agriculture Department. Today, it's fitting that it's part of Commerce. Amusement parks save on labor and food costs merely by knowing the odds tomorrow's forecasted rain will fall between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., the hours when most customers decide to make a detour to the movies. The makers of allergy medicine fine- tune distribution and advertising campaigns by knowing the odds of when pollen will fly in Albuquerque or Albany.
If not for consumer backlash, vending machines would already be raising and lowering the price of a soft drink depending on the temperature.
More than $1 trillion of the U.S. economy -- from airline travel to orange orchards to skyscraper construction to sales of holiday sweaters and root beer floats -- is sensitive to temperature, precipitation, wind and humidity.
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