by FourthBase » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:16 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygroscopic">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygroscopic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nap.edu/nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309090539&chap=89-106">www.nap.edu/nap-cgi/skimi...hap=89-106</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Appendix A: Glaciogenic and Hygroscopic Seeding: Previous Research and Current Status, pages 89-106"<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nap.edu/books/0309090539/html/89.html">www.nap.edu/books/0309090...ml/89.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sandylandwater.com/ops.htm">www.sandylandwater.com/ops.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=glaciogenic&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=11&u=www.wmo.ch/web/arep/wmp/ECWPCCWM/DOCUMENTS/Doc4.1_terblanche.doc&w=glaciogenic&d=IZ0y32FULmxr&icp=1&.intl=us">216.109.125.130/search/ca...1&.intl=us</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>It is indeed rather concerning that as humankind moves into the 21<sup>st Century, facing a variety of environmental challenges, to report that the research into rainfall enhancement from mixed-phased clouds, has dwindled to probably the lowest levels since the advent of modern weather modification after WW2. Of further concern is the fact that new operational programs are still being initiated around the world without activities to strengthen the scientific base on which the technology is based.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://metsys.weathersa.co.za/bprp_bg">metsys.weathersa.co.za/bprp_bg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Bethlehem Precipitation Research Project had its origin in 1971 as the Bethlehem Weather Modification Experiment (BEWMEX).<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>And then Hurricane Debbie:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2005-09-22-no-changing-hurricanes_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/weather/...anes_x.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The federal government's hurricane modification program was called Project Stormfury. The idea was raised during the Eisenhower administration after several major storms hit the East Coast in the mid-1950s, killing 749 people and causing billions in damages.<br><br>But it wasn't until 1961 that initial tests were conducted on Hurricane Esther with a Navy plane releasing silver iodide crystals. Some reports indicate winds were reduced by 10% to 30%.<br><br>During Stormfury, scientists also seeded hurricanes in 1963, 1969 and 1971 over the open Atlantic Ocean far from land.<br><br>Researchers dropped silver iodide, a substance that serves as an effective ice nuclei, into clouds just outside of the hurricane's eyewall. The idea was that a new ring of clouds would form around the artificial ice nuclei. The new clouds were supposed to change rain patterns and form a new eyewall that would collapse the old one. The reformed hurricane would spin more slowly and be less dangerous.<br><br>Sometimes, the experiments appeared to work. Hurricane Debbie in 1969 was seeded twice over four days by several aircraft. Researchers noted that its intensity waxed and waned by up to 30%.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Project Stormfury was abandoned in the 1980s after spending hundreds of millions of dollars.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>My <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>ass</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> it was abandoned.<br>Literally, quite possibly my own ass.<br>Don't for a second think it was abandoned.<br>You all know better anyway.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/141005weather_modification.htm">www.prisonplanet.com/arti...cation.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Livingston was even invited to the White House where he briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control activities. Livingston asserts that hurricane control was a national priority of the government in the 60s and they had the ability to do it at that time. That was 40 years ago.<br><br>He now works with scientists and pilots at Weather Modification Inc., in Fargo, N.D. His research of hurricane control has been confirmed by the Stanford Research Institute.<br><br>He has personally flown on 265 missions into the eyes of hurricanes and has gone on record as "most disgusted" with Hurricane Katrina because he knows that the storm itself could have been minimized.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>