And now the unfortunate conclusion of The Storm. As snow falls in Las Vegas, Luke and the Geek (character name Dr. Kirk, so I'll call him that from now on) try to reverse the effect of the weather modification weapon using computer models. Kirk wonders if the military will want them to stop it. Luke says by the time they do, the Pentagon will be begging them to do so.
Back at the Atmospheric Research Institute outside LA, where the technology was developed and used, the two scientists there are also trying to stop it by sending more of the electromagnetic pulses into the ionosphere. Bad idea. As they do this, a giant tornado hits Anchorage, Alaska. Luke and Dr. Kirk determine that the initial test created a hole in the ionosphere that gets larger each time pulses are sent out causing energy to return to the surface. Kirk decides that the way to reverse the process is to draw energy from the hole. Don't bother trying to make sense of this as there is none to be made. General Braxton, the David James Elliott character is told by the Joint Chiefs that they are concerned about the weather problems and that no more incidents can be tolerated. He relays this to Tyrrell. It now begins snowing in Hawaii on the beach. After Kirk determines the way to reverse the EM pulses and makes a portable hard drive copy, Tyrrell calls him and he realizes that Luke has been working for him all along. With a means of stopping the problems, Tyrrell figures he now has the perfect weather weapon. Kirk escapes with the hard drive before Luke can kill him. Luke dies in the ensuing fight. Tyrrell has a melt down when he hears the news. Lightning strikes several LA high rises. There is another plotline featuring a paramedic and his pregnant wife and her father who gets trapped in their basement when a hot water heater falls on him. They all survive. Gen. Braxton flies to LA to meet with Tyrrell to tell him the program has to be shut down. Tyrrell then reveals what Operation Rainbow is all about and convinces Braxton they have to keep going. Operation Rainbow is the use of the weather weapon to prevent Iran from test launching ICBMs. Kirk seeks refuge in a coffee shop and calls the female police detective and says he needs her to take him to ARI so he can stop the weather problems. During the call, the police spot him, but a lightning bolt blows out the window of the shop, allowing him to escape yet again. Sometimes the weather can be your friend! A hurricane suddenly forms off the coast of Calif. and heads for LA. Gen. Braxton, now back in Washington, again orders Tyrrell to shut down the program, but Tyrrell pretends he can't understand him. Kirk calls the detective again, but her supervisor overhears the call and sends Tyrrell's hit squad to the location where he is hiding. Back at ARI, the meteorologists are stumped as hurricanes their project has created threaten both coasts. The head of the LA (not national as I first wrote it) Weather Bureau keeps talking to his girlfriend and actually orders the bureau to shut down because of the approaching storm. The hit team chases after the detective who now has found Dr. Kirk. In the ensuing gun fight, the hit team is killed when their car explodes. A tornado hits Caracas, Venezuela. General Braxton tells a meeting of the Joint Chiefs that Operation Rainbow has been canceled and that the weather problems will soon go away. Tyrrell goes to ARI and convinces the two meteorologists to continue working on solving the weather problems. The Secretary of Defense tells Gen. Braxton that the Senate is now investigating Operation Rainbow. The hurricane closes in on LA. The detective and Kirk crash on the way to ARI and they set off on foot. Inside a home they take refuge in, Kirk tells her that he's sorry for what has happened and that he only wanted to stop floods and famines and didn't know that Tyrrell wanted to produce a weather weapon. The ionosphere hole continues to enlarge. Back at ARI, the male meteorologist tries to move the LA hurricane, but his asst. shuts down the system, convinced that nothing they can do will help. Tyrrell tells them they have to keep trying. The LA Weather Bureau head and his girlfriend ride out the storm in the bar as her two co-workers are killed by flying cars and other debris from the hurricane, which is now a Cat 4. Kirk arrives at ARI with the hard drive, but as they start the attempt to reverse the process, lightning destroys some of the dishes. However, they finally manage to seal the hole in the ionosphere (getting close to 11pm so got to wrap it up quick, I guess) using EM pulses, although the same process as before is shown. Kirk says they must shut down the facility permanently. The technology is too dangerous and unpredictable. Tyrrell then threatens to kill all of them, shooting the woman before the police detective kills him. The weird weather events abruptly end. General Braxton commits suicide before he can be arrested by the Marines on the order of the president. The police supevisor is arrested by the FBI for his complicity with Tyrrell. Dr. Kirk and the police detective decide to go to her place. Probably to watch the Weather Channel. The end. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alvia Gaskill To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: [geo] Re: The Storm 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
