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Local people see through experts
Three years ago I was chairman of North Somerset Council’s planning committee. I was invited to a Civil Service training seminar on how to assess applications for wind farms, held in Taunton.
We were shown a film which included the Boscastle floods as an example of the impact of global warming. Several of us wanted to know whether those floods were different from the Lynmouth floods of 50 years earlier. The experts had never heard of the earlier floods.
We were given an exercise involving five 400ft turbines, taller than Salisbury Cathedral spire, to be built within sight of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. When their impact on the landscape was raised, we were told to put a hedge around the turbine. A 400ft high hedge perhaps?
These applications are being refused because local councillors now know the experts are talking rubbish.
John Clark,
Portishead, North Somerset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cumulus
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Operation Cumulus was a project of the UK government in the 1950s which was investigating weather manipulation, in particular through cloud seeding experiments. Known jokingly within the project as Operation Witch Doctor[1], the project was operational between 1949 and 1952.
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[edit] Motivation
The military were controlling the weather for several reasons, as detailed in minutes of an Air Ministry meeting held on 3rd November 1953.[1] They included:- "bogging down enemy movement";
- "incrementing the water flow in rivers and streams to hinder or stop enemy crossings";
- clearing fog from airfields.
[edit] The Lynmouth disaster
Main article: Lynmouth#1952_Lynmouth_flood
On 16 August 1952 a severe flood occurred in the town of Lynmouth in north Devon. 9 inches (229 millimetres) of rain fell within twenty-four hours[2] and the East Lyn River rose rapidly and burst its banks. Thirty-four people died and many buildings and bridges were seriously damaged.Although there is no direct evidence, there has been speculation[3] that Project Cumulus contributed to the conditions that caused this flood. A few days before the disaster a seeding experiment was carried out over southern England. Alan Yates, an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot who was working with the operation, sprayed salt in the air and was "elated" to learn of a heavy rainfall in Staines shortly after.[1]
Other writers deny that the experiments could have caused the accident. Meteorologist Philip Eden claims that "it is preposterous to blame the Lynmouth flood on such experiments".[4]
[edit] Closure
The project was closed down in 1952. There are rumours that the official documents were deliberately destroyed; certainly some classified documents are missing.[3][edit] See also
http://www.infowars.com/history-channel-documentary-validates-chemtrails-and-weather-warfare/
History Channel Documentary Validates Chemtrails and Weather Warfare
Infowars
July 24, 2009
July 24, 2009
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/philip-eden/Lynmouth-Flood-man-made.htm
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"The day they made it rain" Lynmouth Flood man-made? |
by Philip Eden "The Day They Made It Rain" was the provocative and inaccurate title of a recent Radio 4 programme. Its aim was to show that cloud-seeding experiments may have been responsible for the disastrous Lynmouth flood in 1952. That flood destroyed much of that north Devon village on the night of August 15-16, leaving 34 people dead and 420 homeless.  The radio programme presented evidence of rain-making experiments in southern England in the early-1950s thanks to the detailed recollections of RAF personnel, now long retired. These airmen remembered meteorologists supervising the seeding of selected clouds, and the great satisfaction of the scientists when rain was subsequently reported. It was also claimed that these exercises were conducted in secret.  All this falls into the "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" category. Far from being secret, rain-making experiments were talked about all over the place in the early-1950s. The Royal Meteorological Society's popular magazine, "Weather", devoted a whole issue to the subject in July 1952 - just a month before the Lynmouth disaster. One article by E.G.Bowen described a systematic research programme of artificial stimulation of rainfall in Australia which had begun in 1947, while one of Brita in's foremost atmospheric physicists of the day, Frank Ludlam of Imperial College, described in detail the physical processes underpinning cloud-seeding research in the UK. Any meteorologist with a rudimentary knowledge of cloud seeding could explain why it is preposterous to blame the Lynmouth flood on such experiments. The key to understanding why this is the case is that completely different rain-making processes are involved. Scientists involved in rainfall stimulation were only interested in seeding individual cumulus clouds - those cauliflower-shaped clouds, usually less than a mile across, which sometimes produce showers which may last 10 or 20 minutes. Injecting modes t amounts of dry ice or silver iodide into such a cloud stimulates the production of ice-crystals in the cloud which in turn accelerates the rain-making process. But the cloud has to have sufficiently vigorous updrafts to spread the chemical throughout the cloud. This in turn means that the cloud may have eventually produced rain in any case, and the seeding merely caused it to happen earlier. For this reason there has never been unequivocal evidence of how successful these rain-making programmes have been. The storm which caused the 1952 disaster was not confined to the Lynmouth district. Heavy rain fell over the whole of the West Country and south Wales, and it was caused by a depression which had stagnated in the Southwest Approaches for two days. Similar depressions have triggered serious flooding in southwest England at regular intervals, and previous devastating floods hit Lynmouth in the 18th and 19th centuries. The August 1952 depression was several hundred miles across, and the prolonged heavy rain associated with it was caused by the large-scale lifting of very moist air. A fleet of RAF Hercules stuffed with dry ice wouldn't have made a ha'p'orth of the difference. |
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