Thanks for the update Tyger. I missed that.
Now... I didn't want to get into counter-posting of web pages to prove a point because it seldom gets anywhere. One person posts one link to support their argument, the other person posts another one to support theirs. The first person says the counter post is pseudo science, the other says it's written by a respected researcher. And so it goes on.
Nevertheless, I'll post this:
HAARP ionospheric research program set to continue (see Mind control and earthquakes about a quarter way down) and this short podcast (with transcript)
'HAARP Myths' from Brian Dunning.
Yes, HAARP heats the ionosphere (50 to 250 miles up)
not the troposphere where the weather occurs (from ground up to about 5 miles). I've never seen any evidence of radio waves effecting the troposphere - there would be ample evidence by now if there were. (The troposphere can affect radio waves above about 40 MHz, but that's another story...)
But why bother to heat or experiment on the ionosphere? The ionosphere has a wide range of effects on radio signals and these days its effect on satellite signals is of particular importance as they pass through it. The ionosphere's unpredictable ability to change the satellite-signal polarization being just one, so it makes sense to deeply understand its properties.
Man-made ionospheric heating is nothing new. It was inadvertently accomplished over Europe during the cold war when many hundreds of megawatts of RF were fired into it from HF broadcast transmitters from both East and West (R. Moscow, R Sofia, R. Peace and Progress, BBC, VOA, RFE/RL, Kol Israel, etc.). Added to this were the extra tens of megawatts of power from Eastern Bloc radio jammers. This was not an occasional experiment, but done on a daily basis for over 20 years in the radio propaganda war. Apart from the huge waste of money, this didn’t do anything to the weather, environment or even the ionosphere. Compared to what the sun does it was still completely insignificant.
I should think the best people to ask about HAARP's side effects are the radio amateurs of Alaska via the
ARRL. They'll be well placed to describe the disturbances - if any - of HAARP.
I admit, I may be the gullible victim of miss information. But having worked with radio signals and the ionosphere for nearly 40 years, I reckon I have a fairly good grasp of what is likely and what is not regarding HAARP.
Ian