http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/historic-sandy-targets-new-yor/701206
A) Nothing happens, just a bit of rain
Here conspiracy is the media coverage. It's obviously sensationalized to either keep people in a state of fear, or to distract them from something else. Clearly the Elite made the storm flare up, then steered it away, just to keep people from seeing from what is really happening.
B) Severe flooding, but New York City escapes the worst
Here the the Elite clearly steered the storm away from their favorite city, demonstrating their power over nature.
C) Direct hit on New York
The Elite were punishing someone with a financial interest in New York, and had steered the storm straight to it.
D) Massive rain and flooding keeps election voter turnout low
The Elite made this storm do this to directly affect the outcome of the election.
So no matter what happens, you are guaranteed to get a conspiracy out of it. It's the perfect storm of conspiracy opportunities.
And those are just the mainstream conspiracies, veering slightly more extreme we have Prison Planet suggesting that the massive devastation would drive people into FEMA prison camps, presumably paving the way for martial law and depopulation. And then you have the Facebook Fringe suggesting it's caused by HAARP (a radio transmitter which has a small effect on the ionosphere, and zero on actual weather)
Then on YouTube you've got bizarre theories like this one claiming "infrasound" is being used to steer the storm.
Of course HAARP cannot affect the weather. Have a look at the official HAARP FAQ:
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ion4.html
Conspiracies regarding steering hurricanes have a quite a history (including one where the Japanese Mafia caused Katrina), and in part it's backed by a little science. There has been some research into steering or otherwise mitigating hurricanes, and even some experiments. Here's one such theory - dropping soot on the hurricane to slow it down.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...sts-a-step-closer-to-steering-hurricanes.html
The science dates back to the 1950's with the National Hurricane Research Project and some actual experiments in Project Stormfury. One of the first experiments was Hurricane Ester in 1961, a storm that looked like it was heading from New York, but then turned away. However the actual modification was done a few days earlier, dropping silver iodide on the storm, which maybe weakened it a bit, they could not really tell. More recent research seems to indicate that ALL of the results of Project Stormfury were most likely just natural random variations in hurricane motion.
There are several other proposals, but as the NOAA points out, they are very unlikely to do anything for a large storm
So if HAARP or planes full of soot did not steer Sandy, then what did? Well, the problem with many visual representations of the path of a hurricane is that they present it like it's a ball rolling randomly around on an empty tabletop. As if the storm itself is dictating its own motion with no rhyme or reason.
But what dictates the motion of a storm is actually the surrounding air masses. Technically the steering winds. In the case of Sandy this was a combination of a high and low pressure pair over the north Atlantic, and the Jet Stream. To understand why Sandy moved as it did, you've got to look at a picture of the things that actually made it move.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/...-hurricane-sandys-rare-damage-potential-15170
This was all well understood far in advance. It was not at all surprising just bad luck. The thing is, this storm is doing pretty much exactly what the forecasts predicted days before it hit New York. Here's ALL the forecasts for the storms path from Oct 26th, two days before the turn inland was made.
And here's one such forecast in detail, predicting the Oct 29th state from back in Oct 25th. Note here, unlike most simplified diagrams, you can see the actual surrounding wind systems that control the motion of the storm.
While Sandy was big, it's just a part of a much larger system, so looking at the storm by itself and exclaiming "why did it turn left by itself" is rather silly, missing the big picture (the picture above). There's nothing unexpected here. There's no evidence it was manipulated. It was just a really bad storm.
A hurricane heading straight for New York? It's just weather, but some people will see that this is obviously a conspiracy. But what exactly is the conspiracy? Well, we'll have to wait and see what happens to find out. The mainstream options are:An extremely rare and dangerous storm will turn in from the Atlantic, putting 60 million people in its path and could lead to billions of dollars in damage.
A) Nothing happens, just a bit of rain
Here conspiracy is the media coverage. It's obviously sensationalized to either keep people in a state of fear, or to distract them from something else. Clearly the Elite made the storm flare up, then steered it away, just to keep people from seeing from what is really happening.
B) Severe flooding, but New York City escapes the worst
Here the the Elite clearly steered the storm away from their favorite city, demonstrating their power over nature.
C) Direct hit on New York
The Elite were punishing someone with a financial interest in New York, and had steered the storm straight to it.
D) Massive rain and flooding keeps election voter turnout low
The Elite made this storm do this to directly affect the outcome of the election.
So no matter what happens, you are guaranteed to get a conspiracy out of it. It's the perfect storm of conspiracy opportunities.
And those are just the mainstream conspiracies, veering slightly more extreme we have Prison Planet suggesting that the massive devastation would drive people into FEMA prison camps, presumably paving the way for martial law and depopulation. And then you have the Facebook Fringe suggesting it's caused by HAARP (a radio transmitter which has a small effect on the ionosphere, and zero on actual weather)
Then on YouTube you've got bizarre theories like this one claiming "infrasound" is being used to steer the storm.
Of course HAARP cannot affect the weather. Have a look at the official HAARP FAQ:
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/faq.html
And HAARP is nowhere near the Hurricane, it's in Alaska, and pretty tiny in the global scheme of things:Is HAARP capable of affecting the weather?
The HAARP facility will not affect the weather. Transmitted energy in the frequency ranges that will be used by HAARP is not absorbed in either the troposphere or the stratosphere - the two levels of the atmosphere that produce the earth's weather. Electromagnetic interactions only occur in the near-vacuum of the rarefied region above about 70 km known as the ionosphere.
The ionosphere is created and continuously replenished as the sun's radiation interacts with the highest levels of the Earth's atmosphere. The downward coupling from the ionosphere to the stratosphere/troposphere is extremely weak, and no association between natural ionospheric variability and surface weather and climate has been found, even at the extraordinarily high levels of ionospheric turbulence that the sun can produce during a geomagnetic storm. If the ionospheric storms caused by the sun itself don't affect the surface weather, there is no chance that HAARP can do so either.
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ion4.html
In the field of geophysics, the use of high power transmitters, such as the one located at the HAARP facility, to study the upper atmosphere is called "active ionospheric research." The HAARP facility will be used to introduce a small, known amount of energy into a specific ionospheric layer for the purpose of studying the complex physical processes that occur in these naturally occurring plasma regions that are created each day by the sun. The effects of this added energy are limited to a small region directly over the HAARP observatory ranging in size from 9 km in radius to as much as 40 km in radius.
It is important to realize that HAARP interacts only with charged (or ionized) particles in a limited region of the ionosphere directly over the facility. Interaction occurs because a charged particle (electron or positive ion) will react to an external electric field. HAARP does not interact with the neutral atoms and molecules that make up the bulk of the gas at all atmospheric heights.
Conspiracies regarding steering hurricanes have a quite a history (including one where the Japanese Mafia caused Katrina), and in part it's backed by a little science. There has been some research into steering or otherwise mitigating hurricanes, and even some experiments. Here's one such theory - dropping soot on the hurricane to slow it down.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...sts-a-step-closer-to-steering-hurricanes.html
The science dates back to the 1950's with the National Hurricane Research Project and some actual experiments in Project Stormfury. One of the first experiments was Hurricane Ester in 1961, a storm that looked like it was heading from New York, but then turned away. However the actual modification was done a few days earlier, dropping silver iodide on the storm, which maybe weakened it a bit, they could not really tell. More recent research seems to indicate that ALL of the results of Project Stormfury were most likely just natural random variations in hurricane motion.
There are several other proposals, but as the NOAA points out, they are very unlikely to do anything for a large storm
Of course the problem here (from the conspiracy point of view, and even assuming that this theory works) is how you'd do such a thing in secret, and do it with any accuracy. This storm is massive, and would requie a massive effort to affect it in any way. Plus remember this is a THEORY, what if you actually made things worse? (or better, if you were actually trying to make it worse?).Some techniques besides seeding clouds that have been considered over the years include: cooling the ocean with cryogenic material or icebergs, retardation of surface evaporation with monomolecular films, changing the radiational balance in the hurricane environment by absorption of sunlight with carbon black, blowing the hurricane apart with hydrogen bombs, injecting air into the center with a huge maneuverable tube to raise the central pressure, and blowing the storm away from land with windmills. As carefully reasoned as some of these suggestions are, they all fall short of the mark because they fail to appreciate the size and power of tropical cyclones. For example, when hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in 1992, the eye and eyewall devastated a swath 20 miles wide. The heat energy released around the eye was 5,000 times the combined heat and electrical power generation of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant over which the eye passed. Better building codes, wiser land use, and more accurate forecasts seem prosaic compared with environmental mega engineering but they are a great deal cheaper and have overwhelmingly favorable cost-benefit ratios.
So if HAARP or planes full of soot did not steer Sandy, then what did? Well, the problem with many visual representations of the path of a hurricane is that they present it like it's a ball rolling randomly around on an empty tabletop. As if the storm itself is dictating its own motion with no rhyme or reason.
But what dictates the motion of a storm is actually the surrounding air masses. Technically the steering winds. In the case of Sandy this was a combination of a high and low pressure pair over the north Atlantic, and the Jet Stream. To understand why Sandy moved as it did, you've got to look at a picture of the things that actually made it move.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/...-hurricane-sandys-rare-damage-potential-15170
This was all well understood far in advance. It was not at all surprising just bad luck. The thing is, this storm is doing pretty much exactly what the forecasts predicted days before it hit New York. Here's ALL the forecasts for the storms path from Oct 26th, two days before the turn inland was made.
And here's one such forecast in detail, predicting the Oct 29th state from back in Oct 25th. Note here, unlike most simplified diagrams, you can see the actual surrounding wind systems that control the motion of the storm.
While Sandy was big, it's just a part of a much larger system, so looking at the storm by itself and exclaiming "why did it turn left by itself" is rather silly, missing the big picture (the picture above). There's nothing unexpected here. There's no evidence it was manipulated. It was just a really bad storm.
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