Who Controls the Weather?

Who Controls the Weather?

"OCTOBER 20, 2005
News Analysis
By Otis Port


Who Controls the Weather?

Theories about Russian agents steering Hurricane Katrina may be off base, but research into weather manipulation has been going on for decades


Pssst. Have you heard? Hurricane Katrina was intentionally steered to hit New Orleans. The Russians -- a clique of KGB secret-police hardliners who took over a secret weather-control weapon developed for the old Soviet military -- did it. In fact, according to retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bearden, they've been dickering with U.S. weather patterns since 1976.

Or maybe it was Japan's yakuza mobsters. In 1989, they supposedly leased Russia's weather-control system. Did they make a financial killing by shorting U.S. oil stocks, then shepherding Katrina to swamp offshore oil rigs and onshore refineries?

There's no shortage of such conspiracy theories on the Internet. Search for 'weather warfare' on Google, and you'll get 68,000 hits. Or take a gander at www.freedomdomain.com/weather.html and www.gaiaguys.net/bearden.weathwars.htm.

POPEYE'S PROGRESS. To almost all scientists and weather professionals, this sort of rationalization is ludicrous. But there's no denying that technology capable of controlling the weather would be a potent military and political weapon. One of the pillars of U.S. science, mathematician and computer wizard John von Neumann, started working on weather modification right after World War II. In the late 1940s, he convinced the Defense Dept. to invest in research that he hoped could be used to vanquish Communism by causing droughts and devastating crops in the Soviet Union.

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