by Rosalind Peterson
September 9, 2009
from NewsWithViews Website
 

 

An article in Space.com (1) titled, “NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday” by Clara Moskowits, Staff Writer - September 14, 2009, was unexpectedly forwarded to me today.

According to the article:

“…A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth's atmosphere. The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)…

 

"This is really essentially at the boundary of space," said Wayne Scales, a scientist at Virginia Tech who will… study the physics of the artificial dust cloud as it's released… CARE is slated to launch Tuesday between 7:30 and 7:57 p.m. EDT (2330 and 2357 GMT) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia….”

“…CARE will release its (aluminum oxide) (2), dust particles a bit higher than that, then let them settle back down to a lower altitude.

 

”What the CARE experiment hopes to do is to create an artificial dust layer,” Professor Scales told SPACE.com.

 

"Hopefully it's a creation in a controlled sense, which will allow scientists to study different aspects of it, the turbulence generated on the inside, the distribution of dust particles and such."

 

CARE is a project of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program. The spacecraft will launch aboard a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket…Researchers will track the CARE dust cloud for days or even months to study its behavior and development over time…

 

If CARE cannot launch Tuesday, the team can try again between Sept. 16 and Sept. 20, 2009…”

The U.S. Navy, NASA, and the U.S. Defense Department have made a decision to conduct one or more an atmospheric tests, in order to create an aluminum oxide dust cloud without the permission and for the most part, the knowledge of the citizens of the United States.

 

These aluminum oxide particles will eventually return to earth polluting our air, water and soils. The tests may damage the various atmospheric boundaries that protect life on earth - no one has any idea what damage this dust cloud and the testing on this dust cloud may do to our climate, agriculture, human health or the amount of infrared and UV radiation reaching the Earth.

It is time to contact elected officials today and protest this action which may begin as early as today, September 14, 2009.

 

The Navy is already conducting warfare testing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico and has more ranges in the planning and permit stages.

 

Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Barbara Boxer noted in a June 19, 2009 letter to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce:

“…the Navy plans to increase the number of its exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every coastal state will be affected. Some exercises may occur in the nation’s most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitats…”

This involves the decimation of more than 11.7 million marine mammals over five years and will increase with each new warfare testing range expansion.
 

Testing in the Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska testing includes, but is not limited to:

  • Gunnery Exercises

  • Bombing Missions

  • Missile & Torpedo Firing

  • Underwater Detonations

  • Research & Testing

  • Vessel Sinking

  • Use of hundreds of toxic chemicals, like lead, mercury, tungsten, aluminum coated fiberglass (chaff), Airborne Obscurants like Red & White Phosphorus, fog oils, rocket and jet fuel emissions

  • Undersea Warfare Training Range Exercises (USWTR)

  • Mid and High Frequency Sonar Experiments

  • Both land and ocean exercises will use planes, drones, rockets and sonic booms

  • Other classified warfare testing experiments will be conducted in these areas

Now the U.S. Navy has decided that these experiments are not enough and have added atmospheric testing to their test list.

 

Once again the public has been cut out of the debate, given little or no warning, and there are no Congressional hearings planned for any of these warfare and atmospheric tests.

It is now time that we, the people, stand up and stop these tests.

 

The Navy and the Department of Defense have to understand that they are not allowed to go to war on us and our oceans for any reason. It is time to make our elected officials aware that we are going to stand against these policies.

 

Take action today - contact your elected officials and stop these new atmospheric tests and demand Congressional Hearings.
 

 

 


More information

1 - U.S. Navy & NASA Dust Cloud Experiments May Begin on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Live Science.com September 14, 2009 Article By Clara Moskowitz, Staff Writer
 

2 - Space.com Strange Clouds Spotted at the Edge of Space by Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writer September 1, 2009
 

3 - Space Station Crew Photographs Mysterious Clouds that Shine at Night by Tony Phillips Scinece.NASA.gov February 19, 2003
 

4 - An Update on the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) Paul A. Bernhardt - Paul.Bernhardt@nrl.navy.mil
“…Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 Abstract. The radar scatter from artificial dusty plasma is space will be studied using at chemical release during the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) in August or September 2009. CARE will be launch from Wallops Island, Virginia on a trajectory that takes the care release module to an apogee of 360 km altitude for a release on the downleg at 280 km altitude. 110 kg of aluminum oxide particulates will be injected from a 2-meter long canister with the exit port pointed to the nadir. A 60 degree ½ angle cone of dust will be injected with a velocity of between 2 and 3 km/s. The dust will become charged in the ionosphere to form negatively charged dust particles. The streaming dust will provide a source for turbulence due to charge separation electric fields and to two-stream instabilities. Ground radars operating at HF, VHF and UHF frequencies will probe the release region looking for enhanced backscatter. The HF radar be digital ionosondes be located near the launch site. The VHF radar will be located on Bermuda looking perpendicular to the magnetic field lines. The UHF radar will be located at Millstone Hill in Massachusetts. At late times, the particles will for an artificial dust cloud that will settle to about 100 km altitude. The measurements during this later phase will provide data on the transport of charged dust by lower-thermospheric winds…”
 

5 - Gelatinous Gelation in Aerosols; Non-Mean-Field Aggregation and Kinetics C.M. Sorensen and A. Chakrabarti Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas NASA Report 2008 Study
 

6 - Virginia Tech - Wayne Scales - Charged Aerosol Particle Experiments - September 14, 2009 - Search
 

7 - MASS Spectrometry Talk
 

8 - Professor Scales - Charged Aerosol Particle Experiments - H.A.A.R.P.
 

9 - Could the H.A.A.R.P. Project in Alaska, NOAA, DOE, NASA, Air Force, Department of Defense, etc., be the reason for climate changes that have been escalating since the late 1980s, when the funds and technology allowed for the escalation of atmospheric heating and testing programs like NASA’s TMA Night Cloud tests using trimethylaluminum or the advanced testing of military weapons systems like star wars? NASA’s Night Clouds Atmospheric Testing Program:
 

10 - The NASA / U.S. Air Force CRESS 1990 Press Kit outlines an atmospheric NASA testing program (linked to H.A.A.R.P. and the U.S. Air Force, that could produce the Vibrant Spectrums (auroras), referenced above, as shown in my poster pictures. In this program canisters are loaded with chemicals and superheated at different atmospheric levels. These canisters contain the following chemicals that could be polluting our air and are showing up with unusual spikes in drinking water supplies in across California (California State Department of Health, Drinking Water Division Water Test Results-Public Records, Sacramento, California): Aluminum, Barium, Strontium, Lithium, Calcium, SF6-Sulfur hexafluoride
 

11 - Note that SF6 is a very potent, toxic gas. It has the energy-trapping potential of 25,000 times that of Carbon Dioxide. The EPA has taken action to restrict release of this dangerous greenhouse gas and yet it is being used in atmospheric testing programs.
 

12 - Barium Releases March 22, 1976
 

13 - Lithium Red Sky April 16, 1979 - Alaska Science Forum:
 

14 - Alaska's Space Pyrotechnics - Alaska Science Forum - Barium February 18, 1985