Book Review

Weather Warfare: The Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature (2006), by Jerry E. Smith
Published by Adventures Unlimited Press, www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com)

Review by Kathy Kasten

“… controlling the weather will allow for the creation of a world government.”

A popular complaint of the populace is the weather, but no one does anything about it. But what if someone was doing something about the weather, but decided not to tell the American taxpayer? Would you, as the American taxpayer, think that was a great idea? Would you agree with the weather being modified? 

No one has told you the risks or benefits of weather modification research. You claim that you have tried to educate yourself and read a couple of books about the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). I am sorry to have to tell you this, but you still don't have the facts of the matter. Jerry Smith has filled in the information gap.  He bases his investigation on the facts.  And truth is always a lot scarier than fiction. I would equate Smith's book, Weather Warfare with the warning message of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

According to Smith, and the documents he cites, HAARP's mission is much more than previously discussed. The effect on living things is the risk some scientists are willing to take in the name of their research. Smith quotes extensively from Air Force 2025 document entitled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025." One definition given the term "force multiplier" is: "modification of the ionosphere to enhance or disrupt communications." Another citation from the same section: "Additionally, exploiting the capability of powerful HF radio waves to accelerate electrons to relatively high energies may also facilitate the degradation of enemy space assets through directed bombardment with the HF-induced electron beams. 

As with artificial HF communication disruptions . . . . the degradation of enemy spacecraft with such techniques would be effectively indistinguishable from natural environment effects." I had to read that statement a couple of times, and began to wonder if this was a reference to high energy pulsing.  The technology referred to by parapolitical researchers as EMP/electromagnetic pulsing. We must guess if this is a part of HAARP's undeclared research. 

Maybe, the reader is thinking, what's so scary about the above? They can't control the weather? It doesn't involve me or my family?" To quote from Smith: "Mainstream science recognizes that man does have the ability to alter the weather on a limited scale intentionally, and to alter the climate on a vast scale unintentionally." Smith presents evidence that what can be done intentionally is far greater than what the mainstream is willing to or able to admit." What if you lived on a fault zone? I suggest you read Smith's Chapter 3 entitled "Earthquakes on Demand?" The ability to create manmade earthquakes was discovered between 1962-1965 when geologists "discovered that disposal of waste fluids by means of injecting them deep into the Earth could trigger earth quakes." 

This author can imagine a possible scenario of terrorists injecting "fluids" into one of the major quake faults running through a high population density area. All one has to do is remember how Los Angeles was shut down after the Northridge Quake. I interviewed Oleg Kalugin - a retired major general of the Soviet KGB (republished in "The New Conspiracy Reader," page 159). Kalugin mentioned Seismology Warfare. When I began to ask him about this research, he immediately dropped the subject.  Should we assume the Russians are involved in weather warfare research? The U.S. government does not acknowledge this type of warfare. However, Smith provides information about Project Faultless. The project was AEC's testing to determine outcomes of depositing nuclear waste in earthquake faults. 

Smith quotes from Gary T. Whiteford's (a professor of geography at the University of New Brunswick, Canada) paper, which concluded that underground nuclear testing caused earthquakes. But, the AEC's response to the tremors experienced in populated areas during their testing was a public relations campaign claiming the wonderful economic benefits of having the storage areas located near your town or city. Smith is able to show that the U.S. government knows how to create earthquakes. 

There have been international agreements regarding weather modification. If the technology wasn't real, one has to ask themselves why all the fuss. Especially, the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques called ENMOD for short. The problem with the agreement is that it simply "prohibits the use of environmental modification as a weapon, rather then restricting the development of modification techniques." 

Further, according to Smith, the various environmental organizations and the Federation of American Scientists were disappointed with the final text because the language of ENMOD "was so vague and the threshold for violations so high that ENMOD might legitimize the use of some environmental weapons." The Air Force's "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" validated their concerns. In that document, it states that various "interventions" which would "enhance friendly forces or degrade enemy forces without violating the letter of ENMOD." The very reason for the ENMOD agreement was not to mess with weather that isn't over your own national territory. The outcome of ENMOD is that it "is a treaty without teeth, and one that is now virtually ignored by the international community." Smith provides the entire ENMOD treaty as Appendix A.

We know that the United States government refused to sign the Kyoto Protocols. One of the areas of concern covered by Kyoto was the future affect of jets operating in the upper atmosphere, especially as more third world countries were entering the world economy. The agreement discussed unintentional geoengineering from the exhaust of jet airliners. During the days after 9/11, when the FAA grounded all commercial flights, Smith tells us that it provided an opportunity for Dr. Patrick Minnis of NASA's Langley Research Center to perform some research. Minnis was able to study the affects of a single contrail's movement from the Washington, D.C. corridor tracking it through the mid-Atlantic states. In just a matter of hours, the single contrail produced a cloudbank that covered 20,000 square kilometers. What Kyoto was concerned about was the fact of contrails blocking sunlight and creating radical changes to the climate when air traffic is at its highest volume. Should we thank U.S. PAC groups for the airlines to put pressure on the U.S. government not to sign the Kyoto Protocols? Forget chemtrails. It appears the big concern is contrails.

Appendix B lists some of the patents supporting the research of HAARP. Most of them are from Bernard J. Eastlund. Although there is one patent from Frank Lowther, Patent #4873928, titled "Nuclear-Sized Explosions Without Radiation." It is assigned to APTI, Inc. One of the companies that had been involved with doing contract work for HAARP paid for the U.S. government.  What does nuclear-sized explosions have to do with HAARP? Maybe nothing; but another project is different matter.

That project is called High Power Auroral Stimulation (HIPAS). Not much attention has been paid to HIPAS. Smith states UCLA Plasma Physics Laboratory operates an ionospheric heater near Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the UCLA faculty members contributing to this project is Professor Wong. From his website (http://cf.research.ucla.edu/cfdocs/faculty/UCLA_ Detail.cfm?ID=381):

"He has applied basic plasma physics to finding a solution to the ozone depletion problem." Very admirable research. Helping humanity. But in the second paragraph we have to wonder just what it is that Dr. Wong is doing up there at the HIPAS facility. "Professor Wong has, for the past several years, investigated the application of the high power, atmospheric pressure, of torch to waste disposal problems. Current research is being performed with a 100kW unit at the HIPAS site . . . ." The paragraph goes on: "Associated research on the development of a plasma centrifuge for the separation of heavy elements from a stream of mixed waste was funded by Westinghouse-Hanford." 

Heavy elements? Is a nuclear fission process part of the HIPAS system? Wasn't Hanford the site of a nuclear waste disaster?

Although Smith ends his list of patents with one in 2003. UCLA's Department of Engineering proudly announces there is technology available to the highest bidder. Consider the following: "High Efficiency Pulse Modulated Power Amplifiers, or "Non-Electronic Radio Front-End Technology." It is not possible to determine whether any of this technology was created with HAARP or HIPAS in mind. But, does point to the fact that the potential applications described seem to point to ongoing creation of technology to support HAARP and HIPAS. It must be that the money allocated by the U.S. Congress for these projects appears like a siren's song to universities and private corporations. 

Smith ends his book on a dire note. It is his conclusion that controlling the weather will allow for the creation of a world government. He suggests that international agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocols, are being used as a pretext to implement such a world government.

An even more dire quote provided by Smith is from U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, from April 1997. Secretary Cohen stated "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves." The Secretary of Defense, we will have to assume, was basing his statement on technology he had been apprised of while he served the United States government.