On speed reading the attached report it appears to me that HAARP
program is only one small part of the weather modification program
which include many and various other technologies.
Obviously the attached report was written some time ago so what the
up to date program is I haven't a clue JohnT
Does this mean that chem-trailing will cease, and that they will no
longer try to ‘own the weather by 2025’ as in the attached report?
It's Not a "Military Death Beam" and It's Not Getting Any More
Federal Funding
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-ionospheric-research-facility-to-close/
Unless a new patron emerges, the U.S. Government's High Frequency
Active Auroral Research Program is threatened with closure next month
May 16, 2014|BySharon Weinberger
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/author/sharon-weinberger>andNature
magazine <http://www.scientificamerican.com/author/nature-magazine>
The world’s most advanced ionospheric research facility has in its
lifetime faced allegations of being a 'military death beam', a weapon
of weather control and even a top-secret mind-control project. Now,
the US government’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
(HAARP) is threatened with closure.
HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio transmitters and antennas
that are used to heat up the ionosphere — the uppermost region of the
atmosphere — creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The
facility has been used to produce an artificial aurora
<http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091002/full/news.2009.975.html>and
to study how charged particles behave in the ionosphere
<http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080423/full/452930a.html>, at a
total cost of more than $250 million to build and operate.
Its bizarre backstory rivals that of a blockbuster Hollywood film. A
powerful US senator from Alaska, Republican Ted Stevens, helped win
approval for the facility in the early 1990s. But to justify HAARP’s
price, the Pentagon had to dream up exotic military applications,
sparking conspiracy theories.
In 2008, Stevens was voted out of office barely a week after being
convicted of corruption (the conviction was tossed out in 2009 amid
allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, and Stevens died in a plane
crash the following year). He was replaced by Democrat Mark Begich,
whose brother has been an outspoken advocate for the idea that HAARP
is a secret military weapons project.
*Difficult balance*
The practical challenge for HAARP has been to balance its role as a
Pentagon-operated site for developing military applications with its
function as a basic science facility. Supporters have long tried to
come up with potential military uses, such as testing deep-sea
communications for submarines, detecting underground military bunkers
and cleaning up satellite-disabling electrons in the event of a
high-altitude nuclear detonation.
Research into that last application had been supported by the US
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but its chief says
that the agency is now abandoning its work at HAARP. “[There is] not
an ongoing need for DARPA, despite the fact that we had gotten good
value out of that infrastructure in the past,” DARPA director Arati
Prabhakar told a US Senate committee on May 14.
The final DARPA-sponsored experiment, called Basic Research on
Ionospheric Characteristics and Effects (BRIOCHE), is scheduled to
end in mid-June. With DARPA’s work coming to an end, the US Air
Force, which manages HAARP, says that there are no more paying
customers for facility, and thus no reason to keep it open.
The facility will be shut down as soon as the DARPA experiment ends,
says Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick. “The plan allows the Air Force to
remove critical equipment prior to the onset of winter,” he says.
Some in the Pentagon seem to be interested in saving the facility,
but say there is no money. “I’m torn on this,” said Alan Shaffer, the
acting US assistant secretary of defence for research and
engineering, at the 14 May hearing. “I think [HAARP] is a world-class
facility.”
No obvious champions have emerged in Congress, and the US National
Science Foundation has told HAARP supporters that it does not have
funds to support the programme, says Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist
at the University of Maryland in College Park. The University of
Alaska has offered to maintain HAARP but would still need government
funding, at least for an interim period.
Yet Papadopoulos argues that HAARP could, similarly to other
ionosphere-research facilities, be self-supporting within three or
four years, living off payments from researchers. In the meantime,
the facility would need about $2.5 million annually to stay open.
Dismantling a facility that has cost more than $250 million to build
and operate doesn’t make sense, he adds.
Scientists are left with few other options. The US National Astronomy
and Ionosphere Center in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which is also used for
ionosphere research, has been undergoing repairs for several years,
and is not as powerful as HAARP even when it is fully functional.
That leaves just the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific
Association facilities in northern Scandinavia.
“To me, the way it looks, this is the end of radio science research
in the United States,” Papadopoulos says.
/This article is reproduced with permission from the magazineNature
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-ionospheric-research-facility-to-close/www.nature.com>.
The article wasfirst published
<http://www.nature.com/news/us-ionospheric-research-facility-to-close-1.15243>on
May 16, 2014./
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