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| Weather has conspiracy theorists strung out STEPHEN CAUCHI June 6, 2010 |
The #1 read article in Australia newspaper The Age, Trash Colin Andrews.
INEXPLICABLY odd images on Bureau of Meteorology radar. Cyclones off the Australian coast
and the most intense storm to hit Melbourne in living memory. A controversial US military
facility in Alaska suspected of research into weather control …
It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi conspiracy thriller. In the past five months, the Bureau of
Meteorology's weather radar has indeed recorded a number of very strange patterns - rings,
loops, starbursts - at a number of places, including Melbourne, Broome and central
Queensland, suggestive of some sort of massive interference.
In that time, cyclones Olga and Ului have lashed Queensland, and Melbourne was bombarded
with hailstones in one of the most intense and costly storms in the city's history.
And, yes, there is a US Air Force research program, the High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP), based at Gakona, Alaska, that has attracted attention from
conspiracy theorists for its high-powered transmitters and powerful radars.
So, since the start of the year, websites and blogs that specialise in pseudo-science and
conspiracy - such as the one run by British crop-circle ''investigator'' Colin Andrews - have
leapt on the notion that there could be a connection between the unusual radar patterns, the
odd weather and HAARP.
''My website is receiving many thousands of visitors who are asking for an explanation for
these (radar) patterns,'' wrote Mr Andrews on his website. ''World class scientists have also
contacted me … these scientists have expressed the opinion that the top-secret joint program
between the US, UK, Canada and Australian governments, called the High Frequency Active
Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is behind the interference. They believe the program is
involved in weather modification.''
And there's more. ''A much bigger international story is waiting in the wings about what, or
who, caused the 1000-year super drought to turn into the 100-year super storm over
Melbourne on Friday, March 5.''
It's not the first time HAARP has come under scrutiny. Over the years, it's been blamed for
floods, droughts, the Haiti earthquake, power outages and aircraft disasters.
But the Bureau of Meteorology, which has received numerous inquiries about the radar
anomalies, including from Mr Andrews, isn't impressed.
And for sceptics, it's all too silly for words. HAARP is exactly what it professes to be, a facility
researching Earth's upper atmosphere, and the radar images, while intriguing, aren't showing
the results of a top-secret weather-control experiment.
According to a statement from the bureau to The Sunday Age, ''reflectors such as physical
obstructions, sea waves, insects and birds and atmospheric effects'', as well as ''interference
from local transmission sources'', are responsible for the unusual images.
The executive officer of Australian Skeptics, Tim Mendham, pointed out that Mr Andrews
''believes in every conspiracy going - [end of the world in] 2012, crop circles, everything''.
Mr Mendham said Mr Andrews, and others of his ilk, had no evidence to support their theories
but it was no use pointing this out. ''There's no way of arguing with someone who claims it's a
cover-up,'' he said. ''No matter how much scientific evidence you give them, they can't give up.
If someone gives them evidence disproving their theory they move sideways.''
The Sunday Age tried to contact Mr Andrews, who is based in the US, but there was no reply.
That could be because, according to his website, he was in Oregon for last weekend's 11th
annual UFO Festival.
and the most intense storm to hit Melbourne in living memory. A controversial US military
facility in Alaska suspected of research into weather control …
It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi conspiracy thriller. In the past five months, the Bureau of
Meteorology's weather radar has indeed recorded a number of very strange patterns - rings,
loops, starbursts - at a number of places, including Melbourne, Broome and central
Queensland, suggestive of some sort of massive interference.
In that time, cyclones Olga and Ului have lashed Queensland, and Melbourne was bombarded
with hailstones in one of the most intense and costly storms in the city's history.
And, yes, there is a US Air Force research program, the High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP), based at Gakona, Alaska, that has attracted attention from
conspiracy theorists for its high-powered transmitters and powerful radars.
So, since the start of the year, websites and blogs that specialise in pseudo-science and
conspiracy - such as the one run by British crop-circle ''investigator'' Colin Andrews - have
leapt on the notion that there could be a connection between the unusual radar patterns, the
odd weather and HAARP.
''My website is receiving many thousands of visitors who are asking for an explanation for
these (radar) patterns,'' wrote Mr Andrews on his website. ''World class scientists have also
contacted me … these scientists have expressed the opinion that the top-secret joint program
between the US, UK, Canada and Australian governments, called the High Frequency Active
Auroral Research Program (HAARP), is behind the interference. They believe the program is
involved in weather modification.''
And there's more. ''A much bigger international story is waiting in the wings about what, or
who, caused the 1000-year super drought to turn into the 100-year super storm over
Melbourne on Friday, March 5.''
It's not the first time HAARP has come under scrutiny. Over the years, it's been blamed for
floods, droughts, the Haiti earthquake, power outages and aircraft disasters.
But the Bureau of Meteorology, which has received numerous inquiries about the radar
anomalies, including from Mr Andrews, isn't impressed.
And for sceptics, it's all too silly for words. HAARP is exactly what it professes to be, a facility
researching Earth's upper atmosphere, and the radar images, while intriguing, aren't showing
the results of a top-secret weather-control experiment.
According to a statement from the bureau to The Sunday Age, ''reflectors such as physical
obstructions, sea waves, insects and birds and atmospheric effects'', as well as ''interference
from local transmission sources'', are responsible for the unusual images.
The executive officer of Australian Skeptics, Tim Mendham, pointed out that Mr Andrews
''believes in every conspiracy going - [end of the world in] 2012, crop circles, everything''.
Mr Mendham said Mr Andrews, and others of his ilk, had no evidence to support their theories
but it was no use pointing this out. ''There's no way of arguing with someone who claims it's a
cover-up,'' he said. ''No matter how much scientific evidence you give them, they can't give up.
If someone gives them evidence disproving their theory they move sideways.''
The Sunday Age tried to contact Mr Andrews, who is based in the US, but there was no reply.
That could be because, according to his website, he was in Oregon for last weekend's 11th
annual UFO Festival.
| A strange radar symbol which Andrews has been researching. |
| Colin Andrews does not believe the government. |
Colin Andrews keynote speaker at the world's second largest UFO Festival, speakers forum in McMinnville,
Oregon on Saturday May 15, 2010. Copyright: McMenamins.
Oregon on Saturday May 15, 2010. Copyright: McMenamins.
Comments to the Newspaper:
Comments
19 comments
This nonsense is designed to deflect attention from the real reasons for climate change,
GLOBAL WARMING, so Tony Abbots mates in big business can continue the destruction our
planet.
Ben - June 06, 2010, 10:40AM
Where can I find these "inexplicably odd images"?
Tony - June 06, 2010, 10:40AM
That's all fine Stephen but perhaps you, unlike the Bureau of Meteorology, can let us know
what caused just one of the strange images we have seen. The Bureau initially spun reasons
like dust, insects, birds and radar maintenance but eventually dropped all that and now refer
to these images as "interferences".
Mr Mendham says that it doesn't matter how much scientific evidence is produced people like
Andrews won't accept it.
Maybe Mr Mendhem is privvy to evidence which hasn't been communicated to the wider
public? Or is he just another skeptic with a blind faith in whatever our authorities tell us?
Like I said Stephen, maybe you can find out the exact cause of just one of these odd images
(one will do for now). That may go some way to reducing the amount of speculation out there.
Jack | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 10:37AM
someone tell those guys to make it snow at mt hotham please
greggsy | melbourne - June 06, 2010, 10:55AM
If it gives another reason for strange weather other than global warming I'll accept it.
Otherwise we'll have to kill all the cows since they give off more toxic gas than cars and
industry... just a thought.
Ailie - June 06, 2010, 11:03AM
LMAO.
So I suppose that the 1918 F3 sized Brighton tornado was the work of weather manipulators.
And that the 1983 dust storm was the same...
OMG we're all DOOMED!!
Darron | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 11:09AM
Stephen,
Your article defames people who believe that HARRP may have something to do with the
weather patterns, yet you don't seem to know much about what HARRP actually does and you
give a glib sound bite to describe HARRP activities (probably regurgitated from the
government website?)
Do some research on HARRP, find out about the microwave energy they are directing up into
the ionosphere. Did you know that the ionosphere is responsible for much of our global
weather patterns? Did you even know what the HARRP program is actually researching?
I'm not saying this is causing the weather changes but it is probable. Logically, without all the
facts, I can not be certain one way or another...HARRP is a top secret military
experiment....that's why don't have all of the facts either...that's what is meant by "top secret".
Yet you glibly pretend to know what the military are doing in their top secret experiments...I
think you are probably just as looney as the people you point you finger at.
Your article is not factual or logical...its opinion....and you opinion is not fact! Unfortunately it
will be accepted as such as its published in The Age and thus read as fact by the majority of
people...but it s just unsubstantiated opinion.
OpenMinded | Sydney - June 06, 2010, 11:22AM
you might find 2 interesting images currently on the national radar map (loop)... one around
Halls Creek WA and the other around Gladstone QLD. they're not really strong but they're
certainly not random. 11:20am Sunday
Interesting! - June 06, 2010, 11:22AM
There is a lot that is hidden from us, no doubt. It's all out there, check it out for yourself (Neil
Armstrong's cryptic speech, Richard C Hoagland, the Disclosure Project). It's not just the
conspiracy theorists, people like Bill Clinton talked about getting access to what really
happened at Roswell once he was elected.
What about Pine Gap? Area 57? There are huge interest groups on Earth who are holding on
to profound technologies...they decide whether or not the plebs are ready to know. And crop
circles - some are fake, but a proportion are pretty inexplicable as well, like these strange
weather patterns
On the balance of probabilities, it's pretty clear that whatever it is, there is a lot of information
that the general public aren't told.
Dark Chocolate | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 11:30AM
More likely the anomalies are the result of Global Warming.
Global Warming will be manifested by a transitional state from one set of weather patterns to
another. In the interim there will be anomalies as the previous pattern dissembles and then
reforms.
The question is; for how long (hundreds of years?) and how intense (will anything over the
size of a rat survive?).
It's all set, what surprises me is how anyone can think it would be anything else.
yobbo - June 06, 2010, 11:36AM
Show more comments
Comments are now closed
===============
E-Mail to Colin Andrews:
Hi Colin,
Thanks for sending me this link. Took a look at it, it was total rubbish and trash, but this isn't
the only such site on the web. HOWEVER, what I did find interesting on this site (
http://www.tetherdcow.com/?p=8350#comment-299201 ) was: 1) The author of the
tetherdcow article rubbished Stephen Cauchi of The Age - who wrote the original story which
link I sent you yesterday - almost as vigorously as he rubbished your views. I found that very
interesting. I believe that the fear level of this author is ASTRONOMICALLY HUGE, as quite
obviously he does not want ANY REFERENCE to the BOM images to surface in the
mainstream media. In his insane rubbishing of both Cauchi and yourself, he reveals his true
intentions and mental state to the world. Of course, there are such persons who will swallow
whatever rubbish the governments or authorities of the world attempt to dish out, as we know
(a good example is the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, based on the weapons of mass
destruction lie that Bush & Blair were pushing so hard). 2) The author of the tetherdcow
article is almost as frantic and ruthless with the public, because so many readers tuned into
that particular article! He is almost shitting in his pants that so many persons viewed that
article in last Sunday's edition of The Age, in fact it was the number one article in terms of
readers viewing it. When I looked at the article, there were something like 40+ people also
reading it (The Age online lets you know how many people are viewing any article at the time
you are reading it, which is very interesting, and more than 40 readers is a really good
number in my experience).
Therefore, once we get beyond the totial idiocy and moronic surliness of the tetherdcow
article, I do think that there is some GOOD NEWS in all of that ranting and raving. Namely,
that many, many people in the Melbourne area and other parts of Victoria, were interested
enough in that article to view it and read it. Of all those persons, it is certain that a
percentage - whatever the number actually is - had probably never heard about this story
before. We can even surmise that a few of those persons took the trouble to Google your
website, Colin, and read some of what you have posted. SO, despite the frantic attempts of
the morons and idiots to discount what you stand for, or even what Cauchi wrote in his
delusions, the truth IS starting to come out.
Once again, Colin, my sincere thanks and praise to you for daring to stand up to the truth.
When the total truth is finally revealed to the world - and I for one do not think that will be too
many years in the future from now - you will be exonerated and honoured for what you are
now doing.
Kind regards, (name supplied)
=========================
The Skeptics attack upon the Skeptics, Newspaper and Colin Andrews - Bring um on:
http://www.tetherdcow.com/?p=8350#comment-299201
===============
Comments
19 comments
This nonsense is designed to deflect attention from the real reasons for climate change,
GLOBAL WARMING, so Tony Abbots mates in big business can continue the destruction our
planet.
Ben - June 06, 2010, 10:40AM
Where can I find these "inexplicably odd images"?
Tony - June 06, 2010, 10:40AM
That's all fine Stephen but perhaps you, unlike the Bureau of Meteorology, can let us know
what caused just one of the strange images we have seen. The Bureau initially spun reasons
like dust, insects, birds and radar maintenance but eventually dropped all that and now refer
to these images as "interferences".
Mr Mendham says that it doesn't matter how much scientific evidence is produced people like
Andrews won't accept it.
Maybe Mr Mendhem is privvy to evidence which hasn't been communicated to the wider
public? Or is he just another skeptic with a blind faith in whatever our authorities tell us?
Like I said Stephen, maybe you can find out the exact cause of just one of these odd images
(one will do for now). That may go some way to reducing the amount of speculation out there.
Jack | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 10:37AM
someone tell those guys to make it snow at mt hotham please
greggsy | melbourne - June 06, 2010, 10:55AM
If it gives another reason for strange weather other than global warming I'll accept it.
Otherwise we'll have to kill all the cows since they give off more toxic gas than cars and
industry... just a thought.
Ailie - June 06, 2010, 11:03AM
LMAO.
So I suppose that the 1918 F3 sized Brighton tornado was the work of weather manipulators.
And that the 1983 dust storm was the same...
OMG we're all DOOMED!!
Darron | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 11:09AM
Stephen,
Your article defames people who believe that HARRP may have something to do with the
weather patterns, yet you don't seem to know much about what HARRP actually does and you
give a glib sound bite to describe HARRP activities (probably regurgitated from the
government website?)
Do some research on HARRP, find out about the microwave energy they are directing up into
the ionosphere. Did you know that the ionosphere is responsible for much of our global
weather patterns? Did you even know what the HARRP program is actually researching?
I'm not saying this is causing the weather changes but it is probable. Logically, without all the
facts, I can not be certain one way or another...HARRP is a top secret military
experiment....that's why don't have all of the facts either...that's what is meant by "top secret".
Yet you glibly pretend to know what the military are doing in their top secret experiments...I
think you are probably just as looney as the people you point you finger at.
Your article is not factual or logical...its opinion....and you opinion is not fact! Unfortunately it
will be accepted as such as its published in The Age and thus read as fact by the majority of
people...but it s just unsubstantiated opinion.
OpenMinded | Sydney - June 06, 2010, 11:22AM
you might find 2 interesting images currently on the national radar map (loop)... one around
Halls Creek WA and the other around Gladstone QLD. they're not really strong but they're
certainly not random. 11:20am Sunday
Interesting! - June 06, 2010, 11:22AM
There is a lot that is hidden from us, no doubt. It's all out there, check it out for yourself (Neil
Armstrong's cryptic speech, Richard C Hoagland, the Disclosure Project). It's not just the
conspiracy theorists, people like Bill Clinton talked about getting access to what really
happened at Roswell once he was elected.
What about Pine Gap? Area 57? There are huge interest groups on Earth who are holding on
to profound technologies...they decide whether or not the plebs are ready to know. And crop
circles - some are fake, but a proportion are pretty inexplicable as well, like these strange
weather patterns
On the balance of probabilities, it's pretty clear that whatever it is, there is a lot of information
that the general public aren't told.
Dark Chocolate | Melbourne - June 06, 2010, 11:30AM
More likely the anomalies are the result of Global Warming.
Global Warming will be manifested by a transitional state from one set of weather patterns to
another. In the interim there will be anomalies as the previous pattern dissembles and then
reforms.
The question is; for how long (hundreds of years?) and how intense (will anything over the
size of a rat survive?).
It's all set, what surprises me is how anyone can think it would be anything else.
yobbo - June 06, 2010, 11:36AM
Show more comments
Comments are now closed
===============
E-Mail to Colin Andrews:
Hi Colin,
Thanks for sending me this link. Took a look at it, it was total rubbish and trash, but this isn't
the only such site on the web. HOWEVER, what I did find interesting on this site (
http://www.tetherdcow.com/?p=8350#comment-299201 ) was: 1) The author of the
tetherdcow article rubbished Stephen Cauchi of The Age - who wrote the original story which
link I sent you yesterday - almost as vigorously as he rubbished your views. I found that very
interesting. I believe that the fear level of this author is ASTRONOMICALLY HUGE, as quite
obviously he does not want ANY REFERENCE to the BOM images to surface in the
mainstream media. In his insane rubbishing of both Cauchi and yourself, he reveals his true
intentions and mental state to the world. Of course, there are such persons who will swallow
whatever rubbish the governments or authorities of the world attempt to dish out, as we know
(a good example is the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, based on the weapons of mass
destruction lie that Bush & Blair were pushing so hard). 2) The author of the tetherdcow
article is almost as frantic and ruthless with the public, because so many readers tuned into
that particular article! He is almost shitting in his pants that so many persons viewed that
article in last Sunday's edition of The Age, in fact it was the number one article in terms of
readers viewing it. When I looked at the article, there were something like 40+ people also
reading it (The Age online lets you know how many people are viewing any article at the time
you are reading it, which is very interesting, and more than 40 readers is a really good
number in my experience).
Therefore, once we get beyond the totial idiocy and moronic surliness of the tetherdcow
article, I do think that there is some GOOD NEWS in all of that ranting and raving. Namely,
that many, many people in the Melbourne area and other parts of Victoria, were interested
enough in that article to view it and read it. Of all those persons, it is certain that a
percentage - whatever the number actually is - had probably never heard about this story
before. We can even surmise that a few of those persons took the trouble to Google your
website, Colin, and read some of what you have posted. SO, despite the frantic attempts of
the morons and idiots to discount what you stand for, or even what Cauchi wrote in his
delusions, the truth IS starting to come out.
Once again, Colin, my sincere thanks and praise to you for daring to stand up to the truth.
When the total truth is finally revealed to the world - and I for one do not think that will be too
many years in the future from now - you will be exonerated and honoured for what you are
now doing.
Kind regards, (name supplied)
=========================
The Skeptics attack upon the Skeptics, Newspaper and Colin Andrews - Bring um on:
http://www.tetherdcow.com/?p=8350#comment-299201
===============
| Side Note from Colin Andrews June 8, 2010 Im afraid its another case where my work is first hijacked and then fills a major newspaper pages not only without credit links but without first talking with me so that I can defend myself. Yes I was in Oregon but I was available for several days before this article was published. When it comes to the skeptics and the likes of Mr. Mendham I rarely bother to address them but as this guy clearly knows very little about me and did a quick search of the net to find a few bulletts. 1. I have not claimed there is a cover up. I am simply asking the question what is causing these radar patterns. I think after five months of asking BoM and they still dont know themselves, I think it continues to be a fair position to take. Yes, it might indeed be a cover up, time will tell but according to Mendham I should just shut up and believe what the government tell me. Sorry. By the way the newspaper says : So, since the start of the year, websites and blogs that specialise in pseudo-science and conspiracy - such as the one run by British crop-circle ''investigator'' Colin Andrews - have leapt on the notion that there could be a connection between the unusual radar patterns, the odd weather and HAARP. end. I did not leap onto this research into the radar patterns appearing on Australian Bureau of Meteorology system, I started it following many e-mails from visitors to my website back on January 15, 2010. Many blog sites picked up on The Age article, in fact it was the number 1 read national article - one in particular went much further and attempted to destroy what they could of my credibility, by lies and exaggerations which I truly do not have the time or stomach to discuss here. These are the folk who are being left behind (thank God) as we transition into a new refreshing and honest era. |