Climate weapons are weapons of mass destruction, the main damaging factor of which is various natural or climatic phenomena created artificially.
Using natural phenomena and climate against the enemy is the eternal dream of the military. Sending a hurricane to the enemy, destroying crops in an enemy country and thereby causing famine, causing torrential rains and destroying the entire enemy transport infrastructure - such possibilities could not but arouse interest among strategists. However, previously humanity did not have the necessary knowledge and ability to influence the weather.
In our time, man has acquired unprecedented power: he split the atom, flew into space, and reached the ocean floor. We have learned much more about climate: now we know why droughts and floods occur, why it rains and snowstorms, how hurricanes are born. But even now we are unable to confidently influence the global climate. This is a very complex system in which countless factors interact. Solar activity, processes occurring in the ionosphere, the Earth's magnetic field, oceans, and the anthropogenic factor are only a small part of the forces that can determine the planetary climate.
A little about the history of climate weapons
Even without fully understanding all the mechanisms that form the climate, people try to control it. In the middle of the last century, the first experiments on climate change began. First, people learned to artificially cause the formation of clouds and fog. Similar studies were carried out by many countries, including the USSR. A little later they learned to cause artificial precipitation.
At first, such experiments had purely peaceful purposes: to cause rain or, conversely, to prevent hail from destroying crops. But soon the military began to master similar technologies.
During the Vietnam conflict, the Americans carried out Operation Popeye, the purpose of which was to significantly increase the amount of rainfall over the part of Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Americans sprayed certain chemicals (dry ice and silver iodide) from airplanes, which caused a significant increase in rainfall. As a result, the roads were washed out and the partisans' communications were disrupted. It should be noted that the effect was quite short-lived, and the costs were enormous.
Around the same time, American scientists were trying to learn how to control hurricanes. For the southern states of the United States, hurricanes are a real disaster. However, in pursuit of such a seemingly noble goal, scientists also studied the possibility of sending a hurricane to the “wrong” countries. The famous mathematician John von Neumann collaborated with the American military department in this direction.
In 1977, the UN adopted a convention that prohibited any use of climate change as a weapon. It was adopted at the initiative of the USSR, and the USA joined it.
Reality or fiction
Are climate weapons even possible? Theoretically yes. But to influence the climate on a global scale, over areas of several thousand square kilometers, enormous resources are needed. And since we do not yet fully understand the mechanisms of weather phenomena, the result can be unpredictable.
Currently, climate control research is being conducted in several countries around the world, including Russia. We are talking about impacts on relatively small areas. Using weather for military purposes is prohibited.
If we talk about climate weapons, then we cannot ignore two objects: the American HAARP complex, which is located in Alaska, and the Sura facility in Russia, not far from Nizhny Novgorod.
These two objects, according to some experts, are climate weapons that can change the weather on a global scale, affecting processes in the ionosphere. The HAARP complex is especially famous in this regard. Not a single article devoted to this topic is complete without mentioning this installation. The Sura object is less known, but it is considered our answer to the HAARP complex.
In the early 90s of the last century, construction of a huge facility began in Alaska. This is an area of 13 hectares on which the antennas are located. Officially, the facility was built to study the ionosphere of our planet. It is there that the processes that have the greatest influence on the formation of the Earth's climate take place.
In addition to scientists, the US Navy and Air Force, as well as the famous DARPA (Department of Advanced Research Projects), are taking part in the implementation of the project. But even with all this in mind, is HAARP an experimental climate weapon? Unlikely.
The fact is that the HAARP complex in Alaska is by no means new or unique. The construction of such complexes began in the 60s of the last century. They were built in the USSR, Europe, and South America. HAARP is simply the largest such complex, and the presence of the military adds intrigue.
In Russia, similar work is being done at the Sura facility, which is more modest in size and is currently in no better condition. However, Sura works and studies electromagnetism in the high layers of the atmosphere. There were several similar complexes on the territory of the former USSR.
Legends have arisen around such objects. They say about the HAARP complex that it can change the weather, cause earthquakes, shoot down satellites and warheads, and control people's consciousness. But there is no evidence of this. Not long ago, American scientist Scott Stevens accused Russia of using climate weapons against the United States. According to Stevens, the Russian side, using a secret Sura-type installation, operating on the principle of an electromagnetic generator, created Hurricane Katrina and directed it towards the United States.
Conclusion
Today, climate weapons are a reality, but their use requires too large a scale of resources. We do not yet know enough about the complex processes of weather formation, and therefore it is problematic to control such weapons.
The use of climate weapons can result in a blow to the aggressor himself or his allies, and cause damage to neutral states. In any case, it will be impossible to predict the result.
In addition, many countries conduct regular weather observations, and the use of such weapons will cause serious weather anomalies that will definitely not go unnoticed. The reaction of the world community to such actions will not differ from the reaction to nuclear aggression.
Undoubtedly, relevant research and experiments continue - but the creation of effective weapons is still very far away. If climate weapons (in some form) exist today, it is unlikely that their use would be advisable. So far there is no serious evidence of the existence of such weapons.
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Ekaterina Lakhova stood up for weather forecasters after Vladimir Zhirinovsky criticized their predictive capabilities. On air [Fontanka.Office] she explained that the weather is influenced by a special weapon - “climate”.
Ekaterina Lakhova//Press service of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
The other day, the head of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, by his own admission, got very wet in the rain for the first time in his life, after which he proposed to “disperse” Moshydromet. The chief specialist of the Hydrometeorological Center, Marina Makarova, responded to this with a phrase about the impossibility of “predicting the time of the appearance of a rain cloud over the head of every person.” Member of the Federation Council, senator from the Bryansk Regional Duma, former State Duma deputy from United Russia, pediatrician Ekaterina Lakhova defends weather forecasters, absolutely seriously placing the blame on “climate weapons.”
“With the help of climate weapons, it is possible to influence the weather through special technologies, as a result of which various kinds of economic disasters occur. This is being done to undermine the economy. Hence, we have hurricanes, tornadoes, hail the size of a hen’s egg, snow in June, one after another showers, prolonged heat, and fires that are unusual for our climate,” she told regions.ru. On air [Fontanka.Office], Senator Lakhova was unable to disclose the sources of sensational information, but did not retract her words.
- How is the weather in Bryansk this year? You are further south than us, it is rainy and cold here. What about you?
- Everyone does.
- So, like ours?
- Certainly. It feels like only climate weapons could somehow change the situation. It can’t be like this, for everything to happen, and suddenly there’s a fire, a flood! The women and I sat and argued, well, this is impossible! We often discuss such issues with women and colleagues.
- Is this your insider information about climate weapons or your opinion?
- Opinion, of course. Sometimes we ourselves don’t know what we are capable of and what we can do. I know that when the clouds disperse in Moscow on a holiday, then after that the weather, especially in the Moscow region, immediately deteriorates and it starts raining there. That is, we can also influence the weather. This is not the first year that we have had fires in Siberia – they give rise to different thoughts.
- But the weather was better before!
- Yes, sure! Previously, Hydromet with its technologies never made mistakes and, sorry, they predicted the weather. The weather has been bad for about five years now.
- So it turns out that someone is “shit” on us?
- I do not know. I can't confirm.
If the effects of climate weapons affect the economy (the harvest, for example), then this is quite serious! Can this be compared to nuclear weapons?
- But that’s not what we’re talking about! There are large grasshoppers - locusts, they can also be used as weapons, no nuclear weapons are needed. It is enough to release locusts, ones that we cannot breed, and they will devour the entire field. There are different types of influence.
- But who benefits from this?
- Well, let everyone guess. What are we, little ones, or what? Everyone understands who benefits from this. There is a lot of competition.
- Yes, it’s difficult. Here's something else the Ministry of Internal Affairs suggested. Do you think this should be discussed?
– I haven’t seen this law yet. But why deprivation? If a person is mentally ill, he has a guardian. And if there is a guardian, then the child will have a guardian. This does not immediately mean deprivation of parental rights. How many mothers do we have who are mentally unstable, and grandmothers are responsible for their daughters?
- In general, do you support the idea of limiting the rights of mentally ill citizens?
– No, I haven’t seen what they wrote there yet. I can't support something I haven't seen. We need to understand who proposed this.
Nikolay Nelyubin, specially for Fontanka.ru
Man has always been afraid of natural disasters and at the same time tried to control them. It is a well-known fact that ringing bells helps fight hail; spraying ordinary cement in the clouds temporarily interrupts the rains. Thanks to the influence on the ionosphere, it is now possible to provoke tsunamis and hurricanes.
There is no official confirmation of the existence of military “weather weapons”, however, back in 1978, a convention was adopted banning negative impacts on the climate, which was signed by the USSR and the USA. But the “battle over the weather” seems to continue.
According to experts, there are no functioning climate weapons today. But research is underway in both Russia and the USA at full speed. The prospect of actually creating a combat climate weapon is quite remote - it will take more than a dozen years.
Developers of unconventional weapons do not stand still. As the press service of the United Instrument-Making Company (UPK) reported, a program for creating weapons based on new physical principles - beam, gene, psychophysical and wave - has been prepared. This exotic weapon, if you believe the company’s statements, may appear in the Russian army after 2020. Military research institutes, design bureaus and laboratories continue to conduct research work in the creation of non-lethal weapons - that is, ones that do not kill. Russian scientists, for example, have already created a device that can disable enemy electronics. A ray gun stops tanks from a distance, knocks fighters or unmanned vehicles off course, and detonates radio-controlled mines. The first samples of new radio-electronic weapons were demonstrated as part of a closed display at the Army-2016 military-technical forum.
“Climate weapons, as a manifestation of a higher power, have been known to humanity since biblical times,” says long-term forecast expert Alexander Zimovsky. – The Bible contains at least fifty examples of how the salvation of the righteous or the punishment of the guilty occurs as a result of disasters associated specifically with the weather. The Flood in various versions is present in almost all ancient and existing world religions known to us. This is the historical nature of human knowledge. As soon as a person masters some knowledge or technology, he begins, first of all, to consider new possibilities from the point of view of use for military purposes.
When analyzing the combat capabilities of climate weapons, one must proceed from the understanding of the fact that weather is not climate. Snow that suddenly fell in St. Petersburg in June is a weather anomaly. The beginning of ice drift on the Neva in June for 5-10 years in a row is a signal of possible climate change. In the first case, we can already achieve the desired result by using technologies for artificial deposition of water vapor. It will be very expensive, there will be very little snow, but enough for selfies, and for what is usually called “old-timers don’t remember.”
“If we are talking about the hypothetical (on a planetary scale) use of climate weapons,” continues Alexander Zimovsky, “then we must understand that the results of its use can manifest themselves over very significant periods of time. London is located at the latitude of Astana. In Astana the temperature drops to -51°C; in London it never dropped below -10°C. And note that this temperature minimum was noted over a time period of 600-700 years. For a modern war, such rates are not only unacceptable, they are meaningless.
In fact, tactically, what do we need? Yes, everything is the same. The enemy is advancing, which means that Generals Mud and Frost are in our interests. We are advancing, which means the terrain must be passable, we don’t need rain.
Another example. Aviation is considered all-weather, as is the ocean fleet. But this, again, is a matter of theory: seas above three or four points - and the aircraft carrier is already just a target, it is not combat-ready, carrier-based aircraft will not take off. It would seem, what could be simpler? “Wind, wind, you are powerful, you drive flocks of clouds”... Maintain stormy weather in the area of operations of the US 6th Fleet, and that's all. However, neither we nor the Americans have yet learned to use typhoons in the fight against aircraft carrier groups.
And if we talk about the real combat capabilities of the world’s largest players, then, despite all the ongoing modern research, the only weapon that creates a short-term, medium-term and long-term climate effect remains the atomic bomb.”
The Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014 were held at a high level - these sports games became an element of Russian prestige and considerable funds were invested in their organization. Only weather conditions could accommodate this, but at this time of year in Krasnaya Polyana, where the main winter sports competitions were held, there are always low temperatures and a dense layer of snow. However, if you remember, it was precisely in those days that rains suddenly began to fall in the region, which almost ruined the entire world sports festival. A whim of nature? Maybe. But the human factor cannot be ruled out. To the same extent as in the case of the forty-degree frosts that settled in Chicago that year. And if we assume that by sending warm weather to Sochi, the Americans received in return unprecedented cold on their territory.
“Officially, climate weapons do not exist,” says military expert and meteorologist Alexander Minakov. – Attempts to influence, or rather it is still a study, of the ionosphere have been going on since the early 60s of the last century and they have not stopped to this day. However, the same Americans practically curtailed these developments due to their cost and lack of concrete results. The fact is that the weather cannot be controlled, it can only be corrected. Our best-known method is to interrupt the rains on holidays, which has already been used several times. The Americans also used similar methods, only with the opposite result, during the Vietnam War, when they carried out Operation Popeye. Then their transport planes sprayed silver iodide in the sky, which caused rainfall three times higher than normal, as a result of which roads were washed out and communications were destroyed. But the effect turned out to be dubious and short-lived.
There are also positive examples of influence on the climate, such as what happened after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, when Soviet geoengineers prevented an environmental disaster. The radioactive dust was bound with special compounds so that it would not be carried by the wind, so that the dust would not be washed into the rivers, and a rain barrier was created in the sky.”
By the way, the founder of domestic climate weapons can be called... Stalin. In his youth, Joseph Dzhugashvili worked for a short time at a meteorological station as an observer. And it was on his initiative that already during the Great Patriotic War, automatic probes were dropped behind enemy lines, transmitting information about weather conditions, which made it possible to correct aviation actions. By the way, in those years the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR was transferred to the Red Army and already on July 15, 1941, the Main Directorate of the Hydrometeorological Service of the People's Commissariat of Defense was created, as well as the Central Institute of Weather, which were directly subordinate to the General Staff. Hydrometeorological departments were created at the headquarters of the armies and fronts, and meteorologists were in many partisan detachments on the territory of Belarus and Ukraine, information from whom was constantly transmitted to the “Mainland”.
By the way, the famous parade on November 7, 1941 took place largely due to the fact that a forecast was received about inclement weather hampering the activity of enemy aviation. During the defense of the capital, Stalin also used such a natural factor as an artificial flood - the ice on the Moscow Canal was undermined, which hampered the advance of German tanks.
Attempts to create climate weapons have been carried out repeatedly - both in the USA and in Russia (USSR). The Americans have chosen Alaska as testing grounds for the ionosphere, where they use HAARP and HIPAS systems and another similar one in Puerto Rico. In Europe, in Norway, two ionosphere research complexes have been installed (as officially stated), which are used in the interests of the United States. There is a similar one in Peru. It is known from open sources that active impact complexes exist in almost disbanded form in Nizhny Novgorod (“Sura”), in Tomsk, on the basis of the ionospheric station of the Siberian Institute of Physics and Technology, in the Kharkov region (“Uran-1”) and Tajikistan (“ Horizon"). Information about them is not widely disseminated, but strategic meteorological work in the form of research is carried out.
“Influencing the nature of the Earth is a rather dangerous game that can result in serious consequences, including for its organizer,” says Alexander Minakov. – Moreover, there are no specific, documented results from the thermal heating of the atmosphere that was used by these stations. There is more mythology here, which is used to explain natural disasters. Most likely, such research uses a more practical option applicable to the missile defense system, which is a concern of both the United States and Russia. After all, fluctuations in the ionosphere can completely paralyze the control of ballistic missiles and throw them off course. Another thing is that both foreign and friendly missiles, and at the same time all spacecraft, can fall under this influence. Likewise, the places on the planet where an earthquake or tsunami will occur caused by human intervention are unpredictable.”
The oddities of the Moscow weather provoke conspiracy theorists to talk about climate weapons that can cause damage to a country, people or territory. The development of such weapons was actually underway, and considerable funds were previously pumped into them. But where is the line that separates fantasy from science?
Someone talks about the “weather cannon” as a joke, thereby reacting to the dank despondency (an option for the South of Russia is wild heat). Some people talk about the dangers of “climate” and – in a broader version – “geophysical” in all seriousness, although there is no data on more or less promising developments in this area, as there never was. With the exception of a couple of special cases.
From Viet Cong to Chernobyl
Only one case of practical influence on the weather with the aim of causing damage to a military and political enemy is reliably known. This is “Operation Popeye” (named after the famous cartoon character), carried out by the United States in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972. During the rainy season (March to November), silver iodide was dispersed from military transport aircraft flying into the clouds, resulting in heavy rainfall. The technology was tested in 1966 on the territory of neighboring Laos on the Bulaven plateau in the Kong River valley, and the government of then neutral Laos was not informed.
Initially, this was a pure experiment, led by Dr. Donald Hornig, the authorized adviser to the President of the United States on science and technology and a former participant in the project to develop nuclear weapons. The results of the operation were considered unsatisfactory, even though the rainfall actually fell three times more and the Ho Chi Minh Trail was partially flooded, as were some of the tunnels that the Vietnamese guerrillas used for supplies and movement. The problem is the short duration of the effect, which did not have a decisive influence on the course of the war. Bulldozers turned out to be both cheaper and more efficient.
Contrary to the traditional presentation of conspiracy theories, all this was not such a secret. Research in the field of so-called active influence on the climate environment has been conducted since the 30s. And the effect of silver iodide was discovered back in 1946; it’s just that the Americans were the first and only ones who decided to try it, so to speak, in practice.
By the way, for a long time the USSR was ahead of the rest in these developments, guided, however, not so much by military goals as by economic ones. In particular, systems were developed to prevent the formation of hail, which was actively used in the interests of agriculture in the Transcaucasus, Moldova and Central Asia, so that grapes and cotton would not be damaged.
As for military purposes, at one time a system was being developed to counter electronic and optical means and enemy satellites through weather conditions. Simply put, the enemy was supposed to be “blinded” by creating an impenetrable curtain of suspended particles in the atmosphere, for example, crystalline fog. Or vice versa - to improve the properties of the atmosphere for greater penetration of its own radio waves. Ultimately, the effect turned out to be, again, economic: the Soviet people learned to crystallize fogs at low temperatures, removing the threat to civil aviation in the Far North.
All this scientific and technical routine does not bother the average conspiracy theorist. Managing typhoons is much more interesting. Few people know that both sides of the Cold War tried to achieve this at the same time, only the Americans experimented on their own territory (fortunately, a typhoon is a familiar phenomenon for them), and the USSR conducted research and testing together with Cuba and Vietnam. And in the end, he went a little further on this issue than the United States, which seems to need this kind of thing much more in everyday life.
The Americans believed that it was enough to destroy some part of the clouds in some sector to change the energy balance of the cloud and thus change the direction and trajectory of the typhoon. The problem for them was not so much the “shooting” of a certain cloud sector, but the mathematical calculation of where the typhoon would go after that. This turned out to be too much for even the Defense Department's supercomputers, and after 1980 the Stormfury program was slowly phased out. But the amateur activities of many enthusiasts, which Hollywood is so interested in, will not achieve large-scale results.
In the USSR they thought more constructively, thinking about how to find the “pain points” of a typhoon that affect its trajectory and power. Soviet scientists have really made progress in this, having learned to model the structure of a typhoon, which in the future may allow them to be controlled to some extent.
But these are just one-time local technologies. One typhoon does not solve the issue. Even for Operation Popeye, the main problem was its high cost. And to accelerate a typhoon to the power necessary to damage a large modern city requires incredible energy. Such technology simply does not exist. Bye.
It is even more impossible to control super-large climatic phenomena (cyclones, anticyclones, atmospheric fronts) measuring hundreds and thousands of kilometers in size. For example, one rain cloud (a couple of kilometers in size) contains the energy of several nuclear bombs. Accordingly, to control it, you need a force many times greater than it. In addition, it needs to be concentrated in a short period of time in a small space. At the very least, the energy introduced into the cloud must be no less than that which it contains, and the energy introduced must be somehow brought back out, otherwise the consequences may be unpredictable.
By the way, the only successful climate change operation, and even carried out in an emergency situation, was also in the USSR. After Chernobyl, it was somehow possible to “bind” a cloud of radioactive dust with sprayed chemicals, minimizing the damage from it.
And the authorities are hiding
In the period until the 80s, the governments and intelligence services of the USSR, the USA and some other countries (Great Britain, Canada, South Africa) entertained themselves with a wide variety of nonsense - from psychics, “super soldiers” and “racial plague” (in South Africa they invented a virus that should only infect Zulu) to climate, seismic and ion weapons, not to mention “extraterrestrial intelligence”. The turning point came due to a new round of scientific and technological progress, and most exotic programs were slowly closed down.
They say that in some places laboratories of one or two people have survived, but these are people obsessed, who sincerely believe in their ideas and, most importantly, do not have access to big money, resources and supercomputers - without this you cannot set an atmospheric front on Moscow. Among them there has not yet been a new Nikola Tesla, who managed to successfully deceive potential investors by telling the rich that the tower he built in America caused an explosion on Podkamennaya Tunguska somewhere in vast Russia, and there was no meteorite. The Bolsheviks came up with it to discredit Tesla.
In desperation, the testing of non-existent “climate weapons” was banned by a UN resolution of 1977, and a year later the USSR and the USA signed a similar bilateral agreement. Of course, this will not stop real enthusiasts, but from that moment on, no one was engaged in large-scale developments in the field of “climate weapons” and most of the related facilities were transferred to civilian departments. Nevertheless, accusations from conspiracy theorists and left-wing radicals (especially the vanguard of extremist environmentalists) are regularly poured into governments.
Thus, George W. Bush and Russia were blamed simultaneously for the devastating invasion of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. Barack Obama was accused of “causing” Hurricane Sandy a week before the election. There is a “version” that the drought in California during the reign of Governor Schwarzenegger was also caused artificially in order to turn the richest state in the United States into a dependent and subsidized one. And the Americans were suspected of “pitting” hurricanes on Nicaragua and Panama back in 1969.
However, the main newsmaker on this issue was former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who directly blamed Washington for the thirty-year drought in Iran. Ironically, he ended his public speech on this topic just as heavy rain began to pour in Tehran.
Now the main source of “rumor versions” remains the American HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) system – a huge high-frequency antenna complex in Alaska, built in 1997. It was supposed to be used to study the ionosphere of the atmosphere, and the customer was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA), which in the United States is called upon to grasp everything unexplored.
However, the project turned out to be too expensive and did not bring any practical results. In 2014, the US Air Force disowned the center in Alaska, saying that it now intended to develop other methods of research and control of the ionosphere, without specifying which ones. In the summer of that year, the last programs and grants from DAPRA ended, and a year later the entire complex was transferred to the balance of the University of Alaska, and it is no longer involved in military programs. However, its ability to concentrate enormous energy in one beam has not gone away and unnerves even technically savvy people, and not just the inventors of perpetual motion machines and UFO witnesses.
In any case, it is HAARP that is still the main target of conspiracy theorists, who blame the antenna complex even for the emergence of unprecedented diseases, plane crashes and other misfortunes (hurricanes are a common place). There are two more similar complexes of much smaller capacity in polar Norway - in Tromsø and Longyearbyen. The secrecy around them also gives rise to rumors, from which “rumor versions” will be born. At the same time, the predecessor of HAARP, located in the same Alaska near the city of Fairbanks, was dismantled in 2009, and another one - in Puerto Rico - is under reconstruction.
In Russia, there are also two ionospheric research complexes, as in the case of the Norwegian ones - of noticeably lower power. Both work. This is the Sura project in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which looks terribly similar to HAARP, and another project in Tomsk based on the Siberian Institute of Physics and Technology, but it is in the process of being disbanded.
There is a similar project in Ukraine - in the area of the city of Zmiev, Kharkov region (URAN-1). For obvious reasons, it is impossible to know exactly what they are doing there, if they are doing anything at all. It is quite possible that the lard is smoked.
Ultimately, climate weapons can easily be relegated to the category of “urban legends” on a par with mutant rats in the Moscow metro and the Boogeyman in American mirrors. However, this does not mean that active influence on the atmosphere is impossible in the future. The same applies to seismic weapons (“tectonic”), which Dzhokhar Dudayev was worried about at one time.
More seriously, most developed countries have advanced environmental monitoring systems. Not only atmospheric and sea, but also seismic phenomena, therefore it is simply impossible to use such weapons. Therefore, there is no point in trying - there will be more problems and costs than the effect. But conspiracy theories are always interesting. Even the most sensible people have watched or read something about aliens and ghosts at least once in their lives. This is the nature of human consciousness, especially in big cities. The main thing is to know when to stop.
Valery Spiridonov, the first candidate for a body transplant, shares his thoughts on how humanity can control the weather, and tells what attempts have already been made in this regard in Russia, the USA and other countries.
Slowly but surely, the huge, monumental armies of the last century, capable of capturing half the continent at once, with a huge arsenal of various firearms, artillery and even nuclear weapons, are becoming a thing of the past. All this remained there, in the bloodiest century in human history that has already passed from us. Today, people have already entered a new technotronic era, an era of hybrid influences and “soft”, but no less cruel, forces.
The Earth's climate is currently poorly predictable, unstable and dangerous, as recent events in Moscow have proven. Is it really just global warming caused by human industrial activities?
Is it possible that these changes are intentional and that climate weapons are not hypothetical gloomy installations in the tundras of Siberia or the forests of Alaska in the best traditions of dystopian novels, but actually existing and functioning systems? The answer, as usual, is both simple and complex at the same time.
It is important to immediately draw a line of demarcation between the conditionally “skeptics” and the “confident”: climate control is indeed possible, and the development of climate weapons was carried out entirely in the twentieth century and most likely continues to this day. The fact that such weapons really existed and were developed by the leading powers of that time is evidenced by the fact that in 1978 an official convention was adopted banning state influence on the climate. The agreement was signed by the then world leaders of the USSR and the USA. Since then, there have been no proven cases of military use of climate weapons, but accusations of the involvement of certain forces in natural disasters continue.
An important fact: climate control and influencing it for one purpose or another is a reality. It is obvious that the reality is well hidden, it is quite possible that the reality is not pleasant, but this does not stop it from being less real. This is due to two important factors. Firstly, man has always strived to keep everything under control and it is unlikely that modern humanity would like to depend on unpredictable weather. And secondly, as sad as it may be, climate is also a weapon.
However, one should very soberly assess man's capabilities in controlling such large energies as weather phenomena. For example, in one day an average hurricane releases an amount of thermal energy equivalent to that produced by all the power plants in the world in 200 days. And the energy of a major hurricane can range from 50 to 200 million megawatts. It is logical that it is impossible to simply oppose brute force to such phenomena. Rather, it is necessary to consider targeted, targeted impacts that can trigger a chain reaction of change.
Today, climate control systems are being developed in a number of countries, primarily in the United States of America. Scientists from around the world, versed in so-called geoengineering, are proposing the following developments aimed at changing the earth's climate to combat global warming or for other purposes:
— Installation of reflective mirrors in orbit in order to reflect or concentrate sunlight at specified points on the planet. This is an almost ideal project, but its implementation requires enormous funds.
— Spraying of sulfur in the earth's atmosphere. This is, in fact, the same point first, but cheaper. Sulfur is an excellent screen that will reflect excess sunlight. However, due to the obvious harm to the environment, this option is not the most popular today.
— Increasing the ability of the earth's surface to reflect excess solar flows from the earth's surface. Proposals in this area are legion, in particular, dressing glaciers in special insulating covers, “painting” rocks, sand masses in deserts, roofs of houses with white, as well as genetic modification of woody plants (trees with foliage that reflects light) and much more.
— Stimulation of the growth and reproduction of unicellular algae in the world's oceans, which should contribute to the intensive absorption of CO 2 from the Earth's atmosphere. It is also possible to artificially obtain a number of species of unicellular algae. This method is associated with a radical restructuring of the ecosystems of the world's oceans, so its use in practice today is unlikely.
This is just a short list of the main and not the most fantastic ideas of scientists from around the world aimed at climate change. Of course, not all of them are feasible, but developments are already underway on a number of provisions. Of course, all data on such projects is classified and it is hardly possible to find any official documents in the public domain.
As for the issues of the existence and functioning of directly climate-related weapons, everything is not so simple. It is absolutely obvious that such weapons existed before. This is evidenced by both indirect facts and a number of revelations by former intelligence officers, as well as completely official documents and conventions on the non-proliferation of climate weapons, signed by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
However, it is one thing to prohibit and promise not to do so with honest eyes, and another thing to actually adhere to one’s obligations. All countries of the world have agreed that they will not produce new nuclear weapons, but Iran and North Korea, despite sanctions, continue to develop them. Even earlier, Israel and Pakistan acquired atomic bombs in a similar way with the connivance of the United States. Today there is talk that even terrorists of the Islamic State, banned in the Russian Federation, are developing their own atomic bomb. So is it even possible to trust any international treaties, especially when it comes to weapons issues? The answer, unfortunately, is obvious: hardly.
In a number of countries today there are specialized installations officially engaged in climate studies. First of all, this is the well-known American HAARP, which plays the role of a kind of “Area 51” in conspiracy theories (a “dummy” specially launched by the American government to divert attention from serious projects).
© AP Photo/Mark Farmer
© AP Photo/Mark Farmer
However, few people know that in the United States there are similar bases that are actually hidden from public attention: these are the Puerto Rican Arecibo telescope and the HIPAS observatory in Alaska. In Europe, it is reliably known that two complexes of the same class operate: EISCAT in Norway and SPEAR on the island of Spitsbergen.
By the way, several of the same stations exist today in the Russian Federation, and one - URAN-1, now abandoned, but for some reason still guarded by the military, is located in Ukraine, a few kilometers from Kharkov. It should be noted that this is only publicly available data about such stations, which are officially engaged only in the peaceful study of the atmosphere. However, how true is this?
You need to understand that real weather correction systems either already exist today or are actively being developed. In the United States, cloud clearing and seeding are regularly carried out. One of the richest people in the world, Bill Gates, will allocate hundreds of millions of US dollars to projects to neutralize hurricanes and tsunamis. In the UAE, like the shamans of antiquity, they really know how to bring rain to the sweltering land. In China, before the next Olympics, the government announced that it was using weather regulators to ensure the most comfortable weather conditions. And former Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more than once directly accused the United States and the EU of causing an unprecedented drought in the region with the help of climate control systems.
This year's cold summer in Russia may also play into the hands of those countries that suffered losses from food anti-sanctions. The weather conditions in our country are now clearly not conducive to a high harvest, and whether this will affect the relaxation of measures aimed at protecting our agricultural sector from imports remains to be assessed.
Climate control systems today are an objective reality. Another thing is how to use them. It’s time for humanity to think about why it constantly uses everything, even peaceful developments, for military purposes. We all live on the same planet and climate problems threaten each of us. So isn’t the general welfare more important than the enmity of individual states? This question, however, should be addressed to world leaders, and not to ordinary inhabitants of the Earth.
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