Foreign Correspondence

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Coal, a question for the scientist. Is it possible for the Chinese to manipulate a hurricane such as Charley? The Chinese are advanced in environmental warfare and Charley passed right over their listening post in Cuba. India seems to think the Chinese are up to something in their pursuit of ‘weather warfare’. Not only can they cause torrential rain they have also been diverting clouds and causing droughts.

I would think that the magnitude of their experiments is unknown to us.

Not saying they did but is it possible?

"The first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden." The two PLA Air Force senior colonels who authored "Unrestricted Warfare", China’s Master Plan to Destroy America, see many new kinds of warfare emerging. These include trade war, financial war, terrorism in the future using new technologies, ecological warfare and news media power.
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:VL4mSpIRuvcJ:www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/unresw2.htm+....
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Tibet lake a weapon in China's hand?

Dr Jayaraman in New Delhi / August 14, 2004 14:53 IST

The threat of a lake burst in Tibet portending a catastrophic flood in Himachal Pradesh has exposed India's vulnerability to environmental warfare where nature's forces are manipulated to create deadly weapons, a senior defence official has said.

Indians do not know what is blocking the Pareechu river that has created the artificial lake, but China has said rocks from a natural landslide caused the blockage.

"This may very well be true, but whatever the cause, the lake burst offers China a test case to study the effect of this new kind of environmental weapon - a lake bomb," the defence scientist told PTI on condition of anonymity.

Denial of permission for Indians to visit the site, conflicting information from China about the lake parameters, and the Chinese warning to India a month after the supposed "landslide", heighten suspicion that the impending lake burst is being treated as an experiment, the scientist said.
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Man-made rain causes waves as China attempts to end droughts

Forced precipitation has brought regional charges of cloud theft
August 19, 2004

LUOHE, China -- When rare clouds appear over this often-parched agricultural region of China, workers at the local weather bureau routinely roll out anti-aircraft guns and blast at the sky.

The shells that explode contain fine particles of silver iodide, which scatter through the moisture-laden clouds. If all goes well, a rainstorm occurs.

China is the world's leading cloud seeder, using an array of methods to disperse chemicals into cloud layers and coax more out of Mother Nature. It uses specialized aircraft, rockets, artillery shells, balloons and even mountaintop dispersing devices.

Moreover, recent heavy rains and floods across China have raised questions about whether fiddling with weather can bring calamity as well as fortune.
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/chinarain19e_20040819.htm


Near Haiti close to Santiago in the eastern end of Cuba the Chinese already operate one of two listening posts on the island.
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The very accurate forecasts in September 2003 for Hurricane Isabel's landfall in North Carolina may have set up some unrealistic expectations for forecasters trying to anticipate Hurricane Charley's path after it formed in the Caribbean Sea and crossed Cuba as a Category Two storm on August 12.

Rapid Intensification

Meteorologist Steve Lyons of the Weather Channel said all of the factors that aided Hurricane Charley's rapid intensification—including very warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and minimal upper-level winds (known as wind shear) that would have hindered its development—were in place soon after the sun came up on August 13.

The storm raced up the Saffir-Simpson scale as it moved parallel to the west coast of Florida. The scale rates hurricanes from Category One to Category Five according to their wind speeds and destructive potentialWhen a hurricane achieves winds of 111 miles an hour (178 kilometers an hour), it is classed as Category Three on the scale and is considered a major hurricane.

At 11 a.m. on August 13, Hurricane Charley was rated a Category Two, meaning that it had winds between 96 and 110
miles an hour (154 to 177 kilometers an hour). By 4 p.m. that same day, the winds around the storm's eye had reached 145 miles an hour (233 kilometers an hour), making it a Category Four storm.

Hurricane Charley may have made the jump from Category Three to Category Four in only one hour. "I suspect this isn't a record (for intensification), but it's certainly up there," Franklin said.

When a hurricane undergoes rapid strengthening—sometimes called bombing out—just before it makes landfall, it creates a worst-case scenario for forecasters and coastal emergency management officials. And once a hurricane begins bombing out, it can build up an unstoppable momentum.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0818_040818_hurricanes.html


Hurricane death toll rises to 20 as Florida digs out from monster storm

MIAMI (AFP) Aug 18, 2004
The death toll from Hurricane Charley rose to 20 on Wednesday as Florida state authorities delivered food and water to hundreds of thousands of people in southwest Florida affected by the monster storm, officials said.

The storm is estimated to have caused as much as 11 billion dollars in property damage. It is also expected to have a devastating impact on Florida's citrus industry, which contributes nine billion dollars a year to the state's economy.

Charley was the first major hurricane to strike Florida's southwest coast in over 40 years. More than two million people were advised to evacuate the strike zone, but many ignored the warnings.
http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040818213414.9sdbwmzo.html