Out There: Man-Made Hurricanes?

[Brother Adam]

Out There: Man-Made Hurricanes?
Wednesday, September 21, 2005


Global warming? Act of God? Nope, says one Idaho weatherman — Hurricane Katrina was part of a man-made plot against America.

Scott Stevens, a meteorologist who for nine years has been forecasting the weather on KPVI-TV (search) in Pocatello, says the Yakuza — the Japanese mafia — is using a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to launch terrific storms against the U.S. mainland.

The devastation of New Orleans was in revenge for the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Stevens explains on his Web site. He says it will soon be used again against another major American city.

"A battle in the skies is waged daily. Some battles are won and others lost. We yet know not which," Stevens writes on the front page of his site. "For years this massive global project has been under way, but only now is it making it to the forefront of the consciousness of those with curious minds."

Rumors have long circulated of a secret Soviet weather weapon, but Stevens told the Idaho Falls Post Register he became convinced it existed after noticing strange patterns in a Montana cold front in 2004.
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"I just got sick to my stomach because these clouds were unnatural and that meant they had [the machine] on all the time," Stevens told the newspaper. "I was left trying to forecast the intent of some organization, rather than the weather of this planet."

Nor is it a coincidence that both Katrina and Ivan — the huge hurricane that hit Florida a year ago — are Russian names, Stevens says.

At least one other scientist, however, thinks it's all a bunch of hooey.

"I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina," Robert S. Young, an associate professor of geology at Western Carolina University (search) in Cullowhee, N.C., told the newspaper. "It's laughable to think it could have been man-made."

Other hurricane experts explain that the spate of severe North Atlantic storms in recent years is part of a natural 25- to 30-year cycle. There was a wave of damaging hurricanes between 1935 and 1965, then a lull before the number of bad storms increased again around 1995.

The U.S. government has apparently tried to influence hurricanes, but its Project Stormfury, which from 1962 to 1983 sought to weaken cyclones by seeding the storms' eyewalls with silver iodide, was a failure.

Stevens is unperturbed by those who scoff at his findings.

"I fully expect one more 'event' this year to impact the United States," he writes. "My gut feeling is that it will be an earthquake/volcanic event with intensity of at least 7.5 in magnitude resulting in insured losses to exceed $25 billion."

His bosses at KPVI-TV don't mind his views, as long as he keeps them off the air.

"He doesn't talk about it on his weathercast," General Manager Bill Fouch told the newspaper. "He's very knowledgeable about weather, and he's very popular."

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Wow...

[homeschoolmom]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

*puts on his aluminum foil hat*

[Carrie]

I knew that "earthquake on demand" machine I made was going to come in handy.

Watch out Japan!

[Lounge Daddy]

put Art Bell on the case --- we need answers

[Thy Geekdom Come]

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[Old_Joe]

So do these storms have a Made in Japan sticker on them?

[Iacobus]

Oh my. I am going to have to ask my Japanense roommate if he knows anything about it...

lol

[MilesChristi]

[thessalonian]

Man's not that much in control. It's nutz. God is however.

[zabbazooey]

What a wacko.

[sweetpea316]

Yeah whatever.

[Dreamweaver]

First Japan gives up anime, then J-pop, and now hurricanes! Aaah. (I have some friends who are absolutely obsessed with anything Japan)

[White Knight]

There have been theroies & remours out there saying that America and other nations out there may have the technology to make a actualy storm system.

[LSW]

I heard this guy on Coast to Coast am with George Noory. I couldn't believe that a meteorologist was making these claims and was actually serious.

So Katrina and Ivan are Russian names. Well then it just HAD to be the Russians.

[prose]

Well, it makes sense to me. I have personally been making hurricanes in my closet for years...

[scardella]

I thought the only man-made hurricanes were available at Pat O'Brien's in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

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[Socrates]

Mr. Stevens has got it all wrong. It's not the Russians nor the Japs -it's Bush's fault! He made the hurricane because he hates black people!

(what would the Japanese mafia have to gain by destroying New Orleans anyway?)