More frequent natural disasters and weather anomalies have given rise to rumors that some countries already possess top-secret climate weapons. And it is these treacherous countries that cause weather anomalies in other regions. But is it really so?
It should be noted that this is not even a matter of climatic weapons - for some reason, the majority of the inhabitants are sure that in any country in the world there are two parallel sciences (and with them - a corresponding set of technologies). One of them, the most advanced, is the "military" one, which is strictly classified. And the other is “peaceful”, she is always lagging behind her formidable “sister”, which is why all the achievements that we owe her appear later in everyday life than their counterparts in the military sphere.
Some, believing so much in this myth, even believe that "military" science has long ago discovered unknown laws of nature, created absolutely mind-blowing technologies of the future, but all this is carefully hidden from "ordinary people" - just in case.
In fact, such an idea is, of course, pure delusion. Let us turn at least to history - there is not a single example when military technologies were far ahead of their peaceful "namesakes". In general, it would be more correct to say that the same technologies are used for war and peace, which emerged from the discovery of the next laws of nature. Moreover, often peaceful use goes along with the military - remember at least the atomic programs of all countries with nuclear weapons, because in parallel with missiles and bombs, both nuclear power plants and radiation medicine appeared in them.
Of course, it also happens that a technology developed for military purposes is first used for its intended purpose, and then becomes peaceful - for example, the Internet has long been a secret method of communication between military departments, and only a few years later it became a "world wide web" into which any owner of a computer and a modem could. But there are other examples - for example, the laser was used for a long time exclusively for peaceful purposes, and it became a weapon much later. The same is with the devices that appeared two years ago that generate electromagnetic "rays of pain" - they are no different from those in microwave ovens that humanity has been using for more than a dozen years.
Why am I talking about this - but to the fact that it is quite difficult to imagine a state that owns climate weapons, but does not use these technologies for peaceful purposes at all. Let's take the United States - let's imagine for a moment that they really have such weapons, and that secret service officers can call hurricanes, rains, frosts and droughts in other countries by simply pressing a button.
Have you presented? Good! And now we urgently turn on the logic - why, in this case, these same specialists cannot prevent annual hurricanes, droughts, rains and everything else on the territory of the United States itself? After all, not only ordinary Americans, but also large corporations constantly suffer from these natural disasters - some fires in California bring them billions in losses every year! And not only for them - the elimination of the consequences is a heavy burden on the state budget, which is already almost empty.
Another way of thinking is that there has never been a case in history when the appearance of a new weapon would have outpaced the scientific and technical base that existed at that time. For example, nuclear weapons appeared only when physicists finally figured out how the atom works. It is logical to assume that since climate weapons exist, it means that some (apparently, the same "secret") part of humanity knows almost everything about the climate.
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But why, in this case, the most accurate forecast is still everywhere the one that was made the next day, and all the longer-term ones can be trusted with great caution? After all, if we knew everything about the climate, then we could safely predict the weather for a month or even a year with 100 percent accuracy (after all, nuclear scientists can predict the decay mechanism of any unstable atom with such accuracy)!
So, as you can see, it seems that in the question of the reality of the existence of climate weapons, we should not be like Dr. Watson, to whom Sherlock Holmes rightly pointed out that he "first endows the criminal with a very rich imagination, and immediately denies him this property." However, have there been any attempts to create technologies that can be used to influence the climate in a targeted manner? Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Igor Ostretsov in an interview with the correspondent of Pravda. Ru”said that there were such attempts - and some of these technologies were developed in the USSR.
“From my point of view, rumors about climate weapons are greatly exaggerated,” says Igor Nikolaevich. - True, in the 70s of the last century I happened to participate in one research project that could lead to the creation of one. We assumed that the Earth's climate can be controlled by influencing the magnetosphere of our planet.
By the way, there were many such projects, but ours was the most effective - we were going to inject very powerful plasma flows into the magnetosphere. These streams would collide with particles trapped in space trapped in the Van Allen belts, and they would, figuratively speaking, fall down due to a change in the direction of their velocity vector (from longitudinal to transverse).
According to our assumption, after the precipitation of such particles in the region of the poles of our planet, a strong impact on the local air masses should have begun, and this, in turn, would have provoked climatic changes. However, I can say for sure that this project remained only on paper - we did not even begin the first stage of experiments.
And, probably, it is for the best. Therefore, now the only "climatic weapon" is the exhaust from factories, going directly into the atmosphere. That is, all unwanted by-products of civilization. And I saw what it looks like when I flew to China, whose industry still operates mainly on coal - these are rows of tall pipes spewing all kinds of filth into the sky. Fortunately, there is no other climatic weapon in the modern world”.
So, as we can see, everything is completely obvious - there is no climate weapon, except for the one mentioned by Igor Nikolaevich (and which cannot be considered a weapon in the literal sense of the word). However, I will not deny that people already have technologies for influencing the weather - just recall the method of forced concentration of water vapor in the clouds, popularly known as the technology of "dispersing the clouds". And sometimes its use accidentally can create an effect similar to the use of climate weapons - though not purposeful, but accidental. About such an episode to the correspondent of Pravda. Ru ", said Pavel Konstantinov, senior lecturer of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology of the Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University, meteorologist:
“There was one case in the mid-90s of the last century - then our specialists signed a contract with one of the countries of the Middle East and, within the framework of this contract, presented them with the technology of“decanting”rain. This is the same as the notorious "dispersal of clouds" - a substance scatters in rain clouds, the crystals of which serve as nuclei of condensation of water vapor, that is, they cause rain exactly where it should fall.
And now this country began to successfully siege precipitation over its territory, and its neighbors, whose crops depended on the same air masses, no longer got a drop. As a result, those began to have poor harvests and all this resulted in a real international scandal with a bunch of lawsuits that were brought against us as well. Since then, we have become more cautious about the distribution of such technologies in the external market."
It can be assumed that there were quite a few cases similar to the one that Pavel Igorevich told about, but they speak not about the use of some kind of special climate weapon, but about the careless use of a completely peaceful weather control technology. Perhaps it was these situations that gave rise to the myths that climate weapons exist.
However, this is a difficult question - many are interested in spreading rumors about such weapons. This is beneficial both to the employees of meteorological departments and rescue services who "missed" the next weather disaster, and to officials who did not have time to prepare for it and organize an evacuation, and, finally, to the military - often myths about non-existent weapons are a good disguise for real secret developments in completely another area.
And, of course, do not forget that such myths will exist as long as people believe in them. A fatal blow to these misconceptions can only be caused by new studies of the atmosphere and climate, which will clarify not only many mysteries of the weather, but also reveal to people the secrets of the functioning of the planetary weather "mechanism". And then the myth of the climatic weapon will die forever - if only because there will be a real opportunity to create one …