Man has tried to control the weather and alter his environment for thousands of years. He may have begun by praying to the gods for rain to water his crops or to stop the rain from flooding his fields and ruining his crops. Maybe early man wanted better weather for hunting or simply warmer weather, after all it can get cold in those caves. I think it is safe to say that these early attempts at weather control were failures. If by coincidence the weather did get better after a prayer than the requester must have been thought to have been very powerful and a favorite of the gods.

Storm Clouds

As modern man looks deeper and deeper into the causes of different types of weather he is beginning to find out some bizarre things. He has found out that even to predict the weather, a computer system far more powerful than anything currently in use today may be needed. The amount of events that affect the weather is staggering. Then there are the bugs. British scientists suspect that some bugs may be able to manipulate weather, thus insuring their survival. Currently under study is the role microbes play in weather formation. When water was examined from some clouds, it contained micro-organisms and some of them were ammonia oxidizing bacteria. Algae may also figure greatly in creating clouds and thus causing rainfall.

Some people believe that Nikola Tesla, the Croatian electrical genius that worked with Thomas Edison and the founder of alternating current, invented a machine that can control the weather. Tesla himself offered a device to the US military that he claimed could send huge amounts of electricity into a small area. He claimed this was more powerful than the atom bomb we were working on, and called it a death ray. When he died, all his notes disappeared from his apartment in New York City. It is claimed by some that the same machine can excite the atmosphere by sending these electrical charges into it and causing changes in the weather. Can the military alter the weather? The UN didn't want to take any chances and drew up treaties banning weather warfare. There are other devices and mysterious projects run by the US government that smack of weather control. H.A.A. R. P. stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. This program is billed as a study tool for studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere for the particular purpose of better communications. But what is really going on? Isn't it dangerous to shoot holes in the ionosphere? Is this some sort of weather control device or super weapon. Who knows for sure? Every time a hole is made in the ionosphere there is a danger it could stay open allowing cosmic rays to enter onto the earth. This sort of reminds you of the hole in the Ozone layer, doesn't it? I hope we were not somehow responsible for that.

Tornado

We all know that seeding clouds with dry ice was very popular and thought to create rain. Some claim that it was effective much of the time and others thought of it as not too effective. I think we can eliminate this method as a reliable method for controlling the weather.

Is the US the only country that may be able to control the weather? Not at all. The Russians have been very active in this area. For almost ten years there have been rumors and articles that the Russians are capable of creating cyclones. An article appeared in the Washington Post on 11/14/97 that talked about using a Russian created cyclone to clear haze created by fires. Malaysian officials wouldn't talk about the methods but stated that it could change whole weather systems. What a weapon a tornado would make. You could clear a battlefield in no time and depending on the strength of the storm maybe even destroy tanks and heavy equipment. In the 1930s an order was issued by Joseph Stalin to find ways to influence the weather. "There were quite a number of areas in which those technologies were in high demand," said Viktor Petrov, deputy head of Atmosphere Technologies Agency ATTECH in Moscow, naming "agriculture, aviation, traffic, hydro-electric power, forestry and city life." A fact that is not generally known is that weather control was used to prevent rain over the Chernobyl reactor after the disaster. The Russians claim that cloud busting almost never fails anymore. An unconfirmed report states that the Russians conducted a "cold explosion" in which an electronic device was used to rapidly lower temperatures. It is said that the device sucked water up from the ocean to a height of 60,000 feet where a glowing sphere of light appeared and spread the water into a cloud.

Persistent reports indicate that the US is now capable of steering the jet stream by producing high and low pressure fronts along with heating selected areas of the atmosphere. Sounds like H.A.A. R. P. doesn't it?

Another Storm Cloud

Well I don't know much about what is really going on in the field of using weather for military use, but I do know that weather could became a weapon more fearsome than almost anything in any arsenal now. It would have great advantages over nuclear weapons in that the area would not be contaminated after the weather weapon was used. Lets hope that someday that humans will stop thinking of using new technologies for war and think about their advantages in peace time use.