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HAARP Weather Control

My Positions

  1. HAARP (the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a research facility near Gakona, Alaska, that studies the ionosphere by transmitting high-frequency radio waves into it and observing the response. It was built by the US Air Force and Navy in the 1990s and has been operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2015.
  2. HAARP cannot control the weather, cause earthquakes, or affect the human mind. It lacks both the power and any physical mechanism by which it could do so.

Rejected Positions

Weather modification and natural disasters

  • Claim: HAARP can manipulate the weather, steer hurricanes, or trigger earthquakes, floods, and droughts.
  • Basis: Unfamiliarity with ionospheric science; coincidence between HAARP's existence and the occurrence of natural disasters, which occur continuously; a 1990s book by Nick Begich (Angels Don't Play This HAARP).
  • Reason for rejection: HAARP's transmitter has a maximum power of 3.6 megawatts, directed upwards at the ionosphere, 80 to 600 km above the Earth's surface, where weather does not occur. Weather happens in the troposphere, below about 15 km. The energy in a single thunderstorm exceeds HAARP's total output by many orders of magnitude; a hurricane releases the energy of a large nuclear weapon every few minutes. There is no mechanism by which heating a small patch of the ionosphere could affect the troposphere, and no mechanism at all for radio waves to affect tectonic plates. Earthquakes and storms occurred at the same rate before HAARP was built and during the years it was shut down (2014–2015).

Mind control

  • Claim: HAARP is a mind control or mass-surveillance device.
  • Basis: Speculative fiction, paranoia, and the general association of "radio waves" with "brain".
  • Reason for rejection: No evidence and no plausible mechanism. HAARP's transmissions are in the 2.7 to 10 MHz band, the same band used by amateur radio operators and shortwave broadcasters for a century. The facility is open to the public, holds regular open days, publishes its research, and its transmission schedules are announced in advance so that amateur radio operators can listen in.

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