This movie turned out to be a two parter, the second one tonight at 9pm on NBC. Suffice to say the first one is two hours of my life I'm never going to get back and if you watched it on my recommendation, we both lost. Nevertheless, due to its relevance to geoengineering governance issues, I am prepared to sacrifice another 120 mins and finish the job. I'll have a wrap up on it and the History Channel program on Weather Warfare that aired recently, since they basically traverse the same animal waste covered ground.
I even took notes during the movie to bring you up to date. The things I do for science! The Storm, made for $5 million or about 2 episodes of Discovery Project Earth which continues to air repeatedly on both the Science and Planet Green Channels along with Dan Kammen's Ecopolis, only slightly less frequently than Martin Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson on MSNBC, combines the ridiculous HAARP conspiracy theory with the past history or distorted history of weather manipulation by the military. Operation Rainbow is a secret project funded by the Pentagon in which a private company run by Mr. Tyrrell has developed some sort of energy beam that is used to alter weather on a local basis. The military brass want to use it as a tactical weapon, similar to the goals of the Owning the Weather concept paper the U.S. government considered for a while several years ago. Ground based satellite like dishes send pulses of energy (what kind?) into the ionosphere where they are bounced off satellites and sent back to the surface. This is somehow supposed to change the weather, but is never explained (because it can't!). In the initial test of the technology, the weather makers, two male geeks and an obnoxious woman cause it to rain in the Sudan, much to the delight of the starving refugees in Darfur, but the side effect is snow in the Mojave Desert. They then attempt to redirect the intensity and track of hurricane Edna (an all purpose technology it seems). But the hurricane test goes badly and the energy from the angry ionosphere leaks back to the surface, zapping the control center, killing some of the staff. The hurricane actually strengthens and heads towards Miami. It also starts raining in Los Angeles and keeps on raining, reminiscent of Blade Runner. The creator of the out of control androids in that film was also named Tyrrell. The Cable News Service, CNS whose logo looks suspiciously like that of CNN, learns of the incident and begins an investigation. They initially get nowhere with the staff, who are completely subservient to their evil corporate master, Mr. Tyrrell, played woodenly by Treat Williams. One of the weather maker geeks finally has an epiphany over the unintended consequences of the technology and quits, but his associate stays on and attempts to change the track of Edna. Meanwhile, the geek who quit (hereafter, the Geek) spills the beans to a CNS reporter, but her apartment has been bugged by Tyrrell and a hit team he sends kill the reporter and her boss and try to frame the Geek, who goes on the run, but is captured by the police. The Pentagon, at the request of Tyrrell orders him to be turned over to the FBI, against the wishes of a female detective who has been investigating the deaths at the control center. The effort to move the storm is unsuccessful and the attempt has created even more changes in weather around the globe with wild temperature swings of over 100 degrees in the U.S. and elsewhere. The explanation? Residual energy fields. In spite of all the destruction associated with the weather altering technology, the Pentagon is still interested in using it. They want a demonstration in Afghanistan. The General in charge, played ceramically (that's worse than wooden)by JAG's David James Elliott says the Joint Chiefs need more proof before they will fully fund Operation Rainbow. Both Tyrrell and the General dismiss the weather problems as unrelated to the technology. The energy beam is then used to create a dust storm outside of Kabul, to foil the evil Taliban who are shown driving around in their standard issue worn out Toyota pickup trucks (no cash for clunkers in SW Asia, apparently). A hurricane now forms off the coast of Peru as the perplexed head of the National Weather Bureau ponders what is causing all of the wacky weather. He also takes off from work during the crisis to try to reconnect with his ex- girlfriend, who is also a bartender. Before the Geek can be handed over to the FBI, military intelligence machine guns all of the FBI agents to death and takes him to a warehouse for questioning. If you ever wondered what all those warehouses were for, it's so people can be taken there for questioning. The electromagnetic interference caused by the weather weapon gets worse and the atmosphere can't be stabilized. Tyrrell tells the team to stop the Peru hurricane in order to impress the Joint Chiefs who are still skeptical of the weapon's effectiveness. They succeed. So you see, it worked. We then learn that the head of the so-called military intelligence unit that rescued the Geek is headed by Luke Perry, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210 and many bad sci fi films and TV shows over the last 10 years. Luke, it turns out was himself once a weather weapons researcher, but never succeeded in getting it to work. He and the Geek both agree that controlling the weather is impossible and the more you mess with it, the worse you make it. End Part 1. Note about Luke. He was also in a sci fi movie that seemed to borrow from Cicerone and Turco's idea to stop ozone destruction. In that one, an ozone hole is headed towards Los Angeles (unlucky city, the city of angels) and they use the NASA U2 plane to carry tanks of some chemical to above 65,000 ft (that sounds familiar) to replenish the ozone. So, today's journal article is tomorrow's bad made-for-TV movie. You've been warned. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alvia Gaskill To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:01 PM Subject: [geo] The Storm Starting momentarily, The Storm on NBC. Apparently another one of those weather mod movies. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
