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by Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of
Centre for Research on
Globalisation (CRG)
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4
January 2002
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
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
"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
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
HIGH-FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH
PROGRAM (HAARP)
The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) based in Gokoma
"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 a 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
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
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
"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
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)
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
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
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,
3. Intelligence Newsletter,
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.
10. Rosalie Bertell,
Background of the HAARP Program,
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,
14. UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change,
15. See Associated Press,
16. Environmental Modification Ban
Faithfully Observed, States Parties Declare, UN Chronicle, July, 1984, Vol. 21,
p. 27.
17. European Report,
18. European Parliament, Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy,
19. EU Lacks Jurisdiction to Trace Links
Between Environment and Defense, European Report,
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