Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:18:33 -0500
From: Michel Chossudovsky chossudovsky@videotron.ca
Subject: 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 use of 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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