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The Americans and the Russians have developed capabilities to manipulate
the World's climate.
Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military scientists are working on
weather systems as a potential weapon."
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000
From: Michel Chossudovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Climate Change: Washington's New World Order Weapons
IT'S NOT ONLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS:
WASHINGTON'S NEW WORLD ORDER WEAPONS
HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRIGGER CLIMATE CHANGE
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, author of The
Globalization of Poverty, second edition, Common Courage Press, 2000.
The important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a
partial picture of climate change; in addition to the devastating
impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the World's
climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated
"non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians have developed
capabilities to manipulate the World's climate.
In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency
Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars")
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests
that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially
triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military
standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it
constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively
destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions.
While there is no evidence that this deadly technology has been used,
surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue of
"environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of
greenhouse gases.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Despite a vast body of scientific knowledge, the issue of deliberate
climatic manipulations for military use has never been explicitly part
of the UN agenda on climate change. Neither the official delegations nor
the environmental action groups participating in the Hague Conference on
Climate Change (CO6) (November 2000) have raised the broad issue of
"weather warfare" or "environmental modification techniques (ENMOD)" as
relevant to an understanding of climate change.
The clash between official negotiators, environmentalists and American
business lobbies has centered on Washington's outright refusal to abide
by commitments on carbon dioxide reduction targets under the 1997 Kyoto
protocol.1 The impacts of military technologies on the World's climate
are not an object of discussion or concern. Narrowly confined to
greenhouse gases, the ongoing debate on climate change serves
Washington's strategic and defense objectives.
"WEATHER WARFARE"
World renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military
scientists are working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The
methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor
rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or
floods."2 Already in the 1970s, former National Security advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski had foreseen in his book "Between Two Ages" that:
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations,
techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum
of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather
modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought
or storm."
Marc Filterman, a former French military officer, outlines several types
of "unconventional weapons" using radio frequencies. He refers to
"weather war," indicating that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had already
"mastered the know-how needed to unleash sudden climate changes
(hurricanes, drought) in the early 1980s."3 These technologies make it
"possible to trigger atmospheric disturbances by using Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) radar [waves]." 4
A simulation study of future defense "scenarios" commissioned for the US
Air Force calls for:
"US aerospace forces to 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging
technologies and focusing development of those technologies to
war-fighting applications. From enhancing friendly operations or
disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural
weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and
counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a
wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In
the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of
national security policy with both domestic and international
applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its
interests, at various levels. 5
THE HIGH-FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (HAARP)
The High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokoma
Alaska --jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy-- is part
of a new generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research
Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of
powerful antennas capable of creating "controlled local modifications of
the ionosphere". Scientist Dr. Nicholas Begich --actively involved in
the public campaign against HAARP-- describes HAARP as:
"A super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the
ionosphere [upper layer of the atmosphere] by focusing a beam and
heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth
and penetrate everything -- living and dead." 6
Dr. Rosalie Bertell depicts HAARP as "a gigantic heater that can cause
major disruption in the ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long
incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from
bombarding the planet." 7
MISLEADING PUBLIC OPINION
HAARP has been presented to public opinion as a program of scientific
and academic research. US military documents seem to suggest, however,
that HAARP's main objective is to "exploit the ionosphere for Department
of Defense purposes." 8 Without explicitly referring to the HAARP
program, a US Air Force study points to the use of "induced ionospheric
modifications" as a means of altering weather patterns as well as
disrupting enemy communications and radar.9
According to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, HAARP is part of an integrated
weapons' system, which has potentially devastating environmental
consequences:
"It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive
programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would be
rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which
is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral
part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate
military nature. The military implications of combining these projects
is alarming. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to
deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb,
anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The
project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against
incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a device for repairing the
ozone layer. 10
In addition to weather manipulation, HAARP has a number of related uses:
"HAARP could contribute to climate change by intensively bombarding the
atmosphere with high-frequency rays... Returning low-frequency waves at
high intensity could also affect people's brains, and effects on
tectonic movements cannot be ruled out. 11.
More generally, HAARP has the ability of modifying the World's
electro-magnetic field. It is part of an arsenal of "electronic weapons"
which US military researchers consider a "gentler and kinder warfare".
12
WEAPONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
HAARP is part of the weapons arsenal of the New World Order under the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). From military command points in the
US, entire national economies could potentially be destabilized through
climatic manipulations. More importantly, the latter can be implemented
without the knowledge of the enemy, at minimal cost and without engaging
military personnel and equipment as in a conventional war.
The use of HAARP -- if it were to be applied-- could have potentially
devastating impacts on the World's climate. Responding to US economic
and strategic interests, it could be used to selectively modify climate
in different parts of the World resulting in the destabilization of
agricultural and ecological systems.
It is also worth noting that the US Department of Defense has allocated
substantial resources to the development of intelligence and monitoring
systems on weather changes. NASA and the Department of Defense's
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) are working on "imagery for
studies of flooding, erosion, land-slide hazards, earthquakes,
ecological zones, weather forecasts, and climate change" with data
relayed from satellites. 13
POLICY INERTIA OF THE UNITED NATIONS
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed
at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro: "States have in accordance
with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of
international law, the responsibility to ensure that activities within
their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of
other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction." 14
It is also worth recalling that an international Convention ratified by
the UN General Assembly in 1997 bans "military or other hostile useof
environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or
severe effects."15 Both the US and the Soviet Union were signatories to
the Convention. The Convention defines "'environmental modification
techniques' as referring to any technique for changing--through the
deliberate manipulation of natural processes--the dynamics, composition
or structure of the earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere
and atmosphere or of outer space." 16
Why then did the UN --disregarding the 1977 ENMOD Convention, as well as
its own charter, decide to exclude from its agenda climatic changes
resulting from military programs?
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ACKNOWLEDGES IMPACTS OF HAARP
In February 1998, responding to a report of Mrs. Maj Britt Theorin
--Swedish MEP and longtime peace advocate--, the European Parliament's
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy held public
hearings in Brussels on the HAARP program.17 The Committee's "Motion for
Resolution" submitted to the European Parliament:
"Considers HAARP by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment
to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical
implications to be examined by an international independent body...;
[the Committee] regrets the repeated refusal of the United States
Administration... to give evidence to the public hearing into the
environmental and public risks [of] the HAARP program." 18.
The Committee's request to draw up a "Green Paper" on "the environmental
impacts of military activities", however, was casually dismissed on the
grounds that the European Commission lacks the required jurisdiction to
delve into "the links between environment and defense". 19 Brussels was
anxious to avoid a showdown with Washington.
FULLY OPERATIONAL
While there is no concrete evidence of HAARP having been used,
scientific findings suggest that it is at present fully operational.
What this means is that HAARP could potentially be applied by the US
military to selectively modify the climate of an "unfriendly nation" or
"rogue state" with a view to destabilizing its national economy.
Agricultural systems in both developed and developing countries are
already in crisis as a result of New World Order policies including
market deregulation, commodity dumping, etc. Amply documented, IMF and
World Bank "economic medicine" imposed on the Third World and the
countries of the former Soviet block has largely contributed to the
destabilization of domestic agriculture. In turn, the provisions of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) have supported the interests of a handful
of Western agri-biotech conglomerates in their quest to impose
genetically modified (GMO) seeds on farmers throughout the World.
It is important to understand the linkage between the economic,
strategic and military processes of the New World Order. In the above
context, climatic manipulations under the HAARP program (whether
accidental or deliberate) would inevitably exacerbate these changes by
weakening national economies, destroying infrastructure and potentially
triggering the bankruptcy of farmers over vast areas. Surely national
governments and the United Nations should address the possible
consequences of HAARP and other "non-lethal weapons" on climate change.
NOTES
1. The latter calls for nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an
average of 5.2 percent to become effective between 2008 and 2012. See
Background of Kyoto Protocol at http://www.globalwarming.net/gw11.html
2. The Times, London, 23 November 2000.
3. Intelligence Newsletter, December 16, 1999.
4. Ibid.
5. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report,
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ (emphasis added).
6. Nicholas Begich and Jeane Manning, The Military's Pandora's Box,
Earthpulse Press, http://www.xyz.net/~nohaarp/earthlight.html See also
the HAARP home page at http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/
7. See Briarpatch, January, 2000. (emphasis added).
8. Quoted in Begich and Manning, op cit.
9. Air University, op cit.
10. Rosalie Bertell, Background of the HAARP Program, 5 November, 1996,
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/envronmt/weapons.htm
11. Begich and Manning, op cit.
12. Don Herskovitz, Killing Them Softly, Journal of Electronic Defense,
August 1993. (emphasis added). According to Herskovitz, "electronic
warfare" is defined by the US Department of Defense as "military action
involving the use of electromagnetic energy..." The Journal of
Electronic Defense at http://www.jedefense.com/ has published a range of
articles on the application of electronic and electromagnetic military
technologies.
13. Military Space, 6 December, 1999.
14. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, New York, 1992. See
complete text at http://www.unfccc.de/resource/conv/conv_002.html
(emphasis added).
15. See Associated Press, 18 May 1977.
16. Environmental Modification Ban Faithfully Observed, States Parties
Declare, UN Chronicle, July, 1984, Vol. 21, p. 27.
17. European Report, 7 February 1998.
18. European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and
Defense Policy, Brussels, doc. no. A4-0005/99, 14 January 1999.
19. EU Lacks Jurisdiction to Trace Links Between Environment and
Defense, European Report, 3 February 1999.
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