donnay
08-04-2012, 09:05 AM
Senators want to spend tax dollars to control the weather
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/03/senators-want-to-spend-tax-dollars-to-control-the-weather/
If Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall have their way, rain will go away come again some other day of their choosing.
Both Hutchison and Udall have introduced unsuccessful bills in the past that would have created national boards to oversee and fund research into weather modification. That is, artificially changing or controlling the weather.
“I … am very supportive of and concerned about weather prediction and modification,” Hutchison said at an appropriations hearing in 2011. “And I think we need to know more basic science, and we also need to — to use that to determine if we should or should not engage in weather modification.”
A Hutchison spokesman this week reiterated the senator’s support for efforts to alter weather patterns.
“Senator Hutchison has been a consistent supporter of scientific research in a number of areas,” Hutchison press secretary Dean Pagani wrote The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. “Weather research can help us understand and better predict weather patterns that can impact public safety.”
In 2004 and 2005, Hutchison introduced a bill that sought to establish “a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative federal and state program of weather modification research and development.”
“While we may not be able to stop Mother Nature entirely, we can sometimes alter her course, changing the weather in small, yet significant ways,” Hutchison said on the Senate floor in 2004.
The bill never became law, in part because of efforts by the George W. Bush administration, which rained on Hutchison’s parade.
In June 2005, Sen. Udall, then in the House of Representatives, introduced a companion in the House and called for appropriations of $10 million annually over a ten-year period.
In 2007 and 2009, Hutchison introduced additional bills in another failed effort to fund weather modification, though she began referring to the practice as “weather mitigation.”
The 2009 bill called for $25 million in annual funding between 2010 and 2014, but a Congressional Budget Office estimate from 2009 showed the bill would have actually increased discretionary spending by $88 million during that five-year period.
Then-Rep. Udall again introduced a companion bill in the House in 2007, which called for appropriations of $10 million annually over 10 years.
A representative from Udall’s office declined to comment on whether the senator still favors allocating federal funding to weather modification research.
“She [Hutchison] has not actively sought specific funding for weather modification research during this Congress,” Pagani said of his boss.
Controlling or tampering with the weather has been banned by the United Nations since 1978.
Also, weaponizing the weather has been on the minds of lawmakers since at least the early 1970s. Congressional hearing were held on the issue and President Richard Nixon held discussions with the Soviets on how to overcome the dangers of weaponizing the weather and environment.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/03/senators-want-to-spend-tax-dollars-to-control-the-weather/
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It's interesting to note how the Daily Caller is posting information like this without doing some research that has been public information for years. Kay Baily Hutchinson has had this on her radar for almost 10 years.
The Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act (S.517) was introduced March 3, 2005, on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) without co-sponsors. The bill was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on December 8, 2005. Calendar No. 319.[1]
A companion bill, Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005 (H.R.2995), was introduced June 20, 2005, by Representative Mark Udall (D-Colorado) in the U.S. House of Representatives, without co-sponsors. On June 27, 2005, the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.[2]
Earlier bills
Senator Hutchison introduced the same bill, To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board and outline its duties and responsibilities (S.2170), in the 2nd Session, 108th Congress, March 4, 2004.
"The bill will develop a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy through federal and state research and development programs. It will also establish a Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board within the U.S. Department of Commerce to promote and expand the practical knowledge of weather modification. Further, it recognizes the significance of state and federal collaboration in this endeavor."[3]
Weather modification forbidden
It should be noted that 'weather control', as well as 'weather tampering', is expressly forbidden dating from at least December 10 1976, when the 'United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72, TIAS 9614 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques' was adopted.[4]
"The Convention was: Signed in Geneva May 18 1977; Entered into force October 5 1978; Ratification by U.S. President December 13 1979; U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17 1980."[5]
Hearing
Joint Hearing: S.517, the Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005, Senate Commerce Committee's Science and Space Subcommittee and Disaster Prevention and Prediction Subcommittee, November 10, 2005.[6]
Bush Administration position
In a December 13, 2005, letter to Senator Hutchison, John H. Marburger, III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, wrote:
"The Administration respectfully requests that you defer further consideration of the bill pending the outcome of an inter-agency discussion of these issues that the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would coordinate – with the Department of Justice on legal issues, with the Department of State on foreign policy implications, with the Departments of Defense and State on national security implications, and with pertinent research agencies to consider the reasons the U.S. Government previously halted its work in this area. At the conclusion of this review, the Administration would report back to you on the results of these discussions so you are fully apprised of all possible issues associated with authorizing a new Federal program on this topic."[7]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weather_Modification_Research_and_ Technology_Transfer_Authorization_Act_of_2005
Other sources:
The U.S. government routinely conducts experiments on weather modification (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7139)
“Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025.” (http://www.naturalclimatechange.us/Jerry%20Smith.html)
Let us not forget what Secretary of Defense William Cohen had to say (1997):
"Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/03/senators-want-to-spend-tax-dollars-to-control-the-weather/
If Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall have their way, rain will go away come again some other day of their choosing.
Both Hutchison and Udall have introduced unsuccessful bills in the past that would have created national boards to oversee and fund research into weather modification. That is, artificially changing or controlling the weather.
“I … am very supportive of and concerned about weather prediction and modification,” Hutchison said at an appropriations hearing in 2011. “And I think we need to know more basic science, and we also need to — to use that to determine if we should or should not engage in weather modification.”
A Hutchison spokesman this week reiterated the senator’s support for efforts to alter weather patterns.
“Senator Hutchison has been a consistent supporter of scientific research in a number of areas,” Hutchison press secretary Dean Pagani wrote The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. “Weather research can help us understand and better predict weather patterns that can impact public safety.”
In 2004 and 2005, Hutchison introduced a bill that sought to establish “a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative federal and state program of weather modification research and development.”
“While we may not be able to stop Mother Nature entirely, we can sometimes alter her course, changing the weather in small, yet significant ways,” Hutchison said on the Senate floor in 2004.
The bill never became law, in part because of efforts by the George W. Bush administration, which rained on Hutchison’s parade.
In June 2005, Sen. Udall, then in the House of Representatives, introduced a companion in the House and called for appropriations of $10 million annually over a ten-year period.
In 2007 and 2009, Hutchison introduced additional bills in another failed effort to fund weather modification, though she began referring to the practice as “weather mitigation.”
The 2009 bill called for $25 million in annual funding between 2010 and 2014, but a Congressional Budget Office estimate from 2009 showed the bill would have actually increased discretionary spending by $88 million during that five-year period.
Then-Rep. Udall again introduced a companion bill in the House in 2007, which called for appropriations of $10 million annually over 10 years.
A representative from Udall’s office declined to comment on whether the senator still favors allocating federal funding to weather modification research.
“She [Hutchison] has not actively sought specific funding for weather modification research during this Congress,” Pagani said of his boss.
Controlling or tampering with the weather has been banned by the United Nations since 1978.
Also, weaponizing the weather has been on the minds of lawmakers since at least the early 1970s. Congressional hearing were held on the issue and President Richard Nixon held discussions with the Soviets on how to overcome the dangers of weaponizing the weather and environment.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/03/senators-want-to-spend-tax-dollars-to-control-the-weather/
______________________________________________
It's interesting to note how the Daily Caller is posting information like this without doing some research that has been public information for years. Kay Baily Hutchinson has had this on her radar for almost 10 years.
The Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act (S.517) was introduced March 3, 2005, on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) without co-sponsors. The bill was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on December 8, 2005. Calendar No. 319.[1]
A companion bill, Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005 (H.R.2995), was introduced June 20, 2005, by Representative Mark Udall (D-Colorado) in the U.S. House of Representatives, without co-sponsors. On June 27, 2005, the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.[2]
Earlier bills
Senator Hutchison introduced the same bill, To establish the Weather Modification Operations and Research Board and outline its duties and responsibilities (S.2170), in the 2nd Session, 108th Congress, March 4, 2004.
"The bill will develop a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy through federal and state research and development programs. It will also establish a Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board within the U.S. Department of Commerce to promote and expand the practical knowledge of weather modification. Further, it recognizes the significance of state and federal collaboration in this endeavor."[3]
Weather modification forbidden
It should be noted that 'weather control', as well as 'weather tampering', is expressly forbidden dating from at least December 10 1976, when the 'United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72, TIAS 9614 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques' was adopted.[4]
"The Convention was: Signed in Geneva May 18 1977; Entered into force October 5 1978; Ratification by U.S. President December 13 1979; U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17 1980."[5]
Hearing
Joint Hearing: S.517, the Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005, Senate Commerce Committee's Science and Space Subcommittee and Disaster Prevention and Prediction Subcommittee, November 10, 2005.[6]
Bush Administration position
In a December 13, 2005, letter to Senator Hutchison, John H. Marburger, III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, wrote:
"The Administration respectfully requests that you defer further consideration of the bill pending the outcome of an inter-agency discussion of these issues that the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would coordinate – with the Department of Justice on legal issues, with the Department of State on foreign policy implications, with the Departments of Defense and State on national security implications, and with pertinent research agencies to consider the reasons the U.S. Government previously halted its work in this area. At the conclusion of this review, the Administration would report back to you on the results of these discussions so you are fully apprised of all possible issues associated with authorizing a new Federal program on this topic."[7]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weather_Modification_Research_and_ Technology_Transfer_Authorization_Act_of_2005
Other sources:
The U.S. government routinely conducts experiments on weather modification (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7139)
“Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025.” (http://www.naturalclimatechange.us/Jerry%20Smith.html)
Let us not forget what Secretary of Defense William Cohen had to say (1997):
"Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674