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RAIN DELAY by K. S. < 141-18 >
The story of weather manipulation and possible economic warfare. 

In late 1995, people began noticing and reporting the trails left by airlines would linger in the air for hours, often up to 10 hours before disapating. With most of the American population living under tinfoil hats and looking for Area 52, it didn’t take long for a conspiracy theory to develop about the checker board patterns in the sky. Claims of the Airforce “spraying the US population with mysterious substances from aircraft causing the unusual contrail patterns” began to fill the media and the new computer tool called “the internet”. The Airforce added fuel to the fire by releasing a publication written by the Air Force’s Air University entitled “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025” despite signing a 1978 international treaty banning the use of weather modification for hostile purposes. But is there any truth to the possibility of weather manipulation perpetuated by people? we are not talking about little men with mohawks and feathers dancing around a fire beating on drums; Is there a real possibility to control and possess the awesome God-like power of weather manipulation? 

First off, is it even possible? Charles Mallory Hatfield was a traveling sewing machine salesman who in 1902 created a secret mixture of 23 chemicals in large tanks allowing the moisture to evaporate into the atmosphere which he claimed attracted rain. After a heavy media campaign, his only takers were a few Los Angeles ranchers promised Hatfield $50 to produce rain. Hatfield built a tower and released his mixture into the air and was so successful, the ranchers paid him $100. Stories of his success spread like wildfire during the drought. The City of San Diego approached him and offered $10,000 to fill their drought striken reservoir. He accepted and built the largest tower he ever had. It rained for 15 days straight causing the 2 dams to overflow and one dam to burst exposing areas of the town to flood and wide spread devestation. The city sued for damages, Hatfield countersued because he had never been paid. The case was eventually thrown out of court. Throughout his lifetime, Hatfield claimed at least 500 documented successes. 

Was the US Government involved with weather manipulation? Project Cirrus was a joint venture between GE (General Electric), the Office of Naval research and the Air Force and on October 13, 1947 flew through a hurricane that was heading out to sea and attempted to seed the storm. When seeding began, the storm suddenly turned back towards Savanah Georgia. The public believed the seeding caused the storm to turn back towards land causing millions in damages. Then again from 1962 to 1983 the military ran Project Stormfury which attempted to reduce the strength of hurricanes using chemicals and supercooled water released from a plane. Because of the public perception during Project Cirrus, only a few hurricanes were tested with the project due to the strict rules that were set by the scientists who feared a negative impact of the tested hurricanes. They mandated that the hurricanes had to have 10% or less chance of hitting land, had to be developed with a well formed eye, and had to be within range of the aircraft. 

So what? In 1947, we were too busy chasing UFOs and in the 1970’s everyone was on drugs. Now let me introduce you to China’s way to prevent rain on the 2008 Olympics. On June 29, 2006 USAToday published an article about the Chinese military hiring peasant workers to fire silver iodide shells from a 37mm anti-aircraft gun at clouds causing the moisture to drop from the sky before a storm could develop. According to the report, China began cloud-busting in 1958 and frequency in which they use the program “is increasing every year.” Another tale of weather manipulation was told by the Brittish paper, The Telegraph who wrote in January 2011 about the President of the United Arab Emerates and leader of Abu Dhabi. He successfully created more than 50 rainstorms in the state’s Al Ain region in 2010 when the region is typically plaqued by drought. The article also says it’s believed to be the first time the system created rain from clear skies. 
So is the American Government involved with this mystical “rain making” or any form of weather manipulation? 

The Impact: During a May 28, 2010 convention in Ghent, Belgium, environment scientists stressed that “manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory.” Further stating that “It is fully operational with a sixty-year history.” Officially the United Nations banned Hostile Weather Modification in 1978, however its “friendly” use today is being hailed as the new savior to climate change and to water and food shortages. My bold statement here is this: IF this program truly does exist. IF man can make it rain in areas such as the extreme desert during the extreme drought season in United Arab Emerates. Why isn’t the government using this weather manipulation program to help Texas with the widespread wildfires, drained reservoirs, and record setting drought. And more importantly, is this some form of economic warfare on the state of Texas due to Texas seemingly becoming a thorn in the Obama administration’s side on issues such as immigration, anti-union, big oil, and largely Republican in statewide offices? 

Now we can look world wide: 
From 1960-1969 there were only 30 major earthquakes worldwide with a scale of 5 or above. During the ‘90s, there were 38. In the YEAR 2001, there were 18 alone. 21 in 2002, 26 in 2003, 24 in 2004, 17 in 2005, 15 in 2006, 25 in 2007, 24 in 2008, 20 in 2009 (3 of which were aftershocks), 26 in 2010, 17 in 2011 as of October for a grand total of TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE and a partridge in a pear tree! So what could possibly be causing these earthquakes? When things like this are brought to our attention, we need to look around more and notice these “once in a lifetime” events that seem to be occurring more often than “once in a lifetime” and begin to ask real questions. Perhaps on a grand scale, Al Gore was right. The debate is over, man has effected climate change. Unfortunately for Mr. Gore, it wasn’t caused by driving a Hummer. 

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