Yes, the 34 Celcius sea temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico had no effect, obviously.

In other news, it was revealed today that tornados start when people turn around in their swivel chairs too fast, creating seed vortices in the air. Just don't do it people!

It's an old idea. Back in the 1970s it was suggested that pumping enrgy into storm systems from satellites via lasers could be used to braek them up by overpowering them before they reached coastlines.

The author Ben Bova wrote several notable short stories on the subject in ANALOG magazine, the one that springs to mind is "Storm Watch"

That guy is nucking futs.

I initially read "Yakuzi" instead Yakuza....

Wow...those guys are genuinely nutters.

It seems very contrived, having the yakuza as the bad guys. The impression I get is that Scott Stevens wanted to pin his hoax on a plausibly threatening organisation which, at the same time, could be blamed without offending anyone.

Presumably he narrowed it down to rogue Russian generals and neo-Nazis - who seem unlikely to have the kind of global reach and resources required to destroy New Orleans, and who are both cliches - or the yakuza, who are purely a criminal organisation rather than armed representatives of a religious or ethnic group. Although the yakuza are Japanese, they are not exclusively so, and in any case the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans are the only ethnic groups left whom it is acceptable to insult in the USA without fear of serious repercussions. Furthermore, the yakuza have an air of mystique about them.

He couldn't pick Al-Qaeda, the Iranian security forces or Hezbollah because he would have been dismissed as a right-winger. And so he picked the yakuza. It is for this reason that I doubt his hoax, because it is so obviously manufactured.

wow... are you serious? it almost seems too crazy to believe...

Both links given contain images of cloud phenomena that have perfectly normal explanations. The Giant Radial Cloud or whatever that Col. calls it:



... actually is an effect of perspective, showing parallel cloud formations. The photographs of a hole in the clouds:



...on Weather Wars is what you get when an airplane descends through a thin cloud deck.

Wonder if Yakuza is controling the dust devils on Mars?

Ooook....This has to be a joke...I checked out his web site and he is talking about "Alien" workers that are working on our sun.....and he has pic's......lol.....but they are close up pics of the sun with what appears to be a UFO...but it looks like he made the cheesy ufo drawing in basic paint shop....just a little pixel drawing...

Along similar lines, this chap argues that the surface of the sun is iron, but with holes in it, like coral, and it rotates once every 27.3 days:
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/

As proof he has some photographs which are, quite frankly, irrefutable.

Also, at least one other person argues that the sun is mostly made out of iron, and that the hydrogen etc is a kind of 'exhaust gas':
http://www.thesunisiron.com/

It starts off with the slogan "Truth is victorious, never untruth". The irony of this chap's position is that he is going for the same kind of "the plate tectonics people were correct, and they were opposed by the lumbering scientific establishment, and so it is possible that I could be correct as well" angle that actually resulted in the model of the sun's behaviour which he is trying to overturn:
http://tinyurl.com/c4p2r

A scientific model put forward by a woman (!) in the 1920s (!) called Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. I predict a bleak future of paranoia and mental illness for this iron sun fellow. He appears to be an actual professor, although mental illness can take many forms, and people so afflicted can be otherwise normal, indeed the BTK killer managed to live a perfectly normal life, except that he killed people, blinded them, tortured them etc:
http://web.umr.edu/~om/

Clever numberplate. It's amusing how many of the press releases transpose his christian name and surname.

Weather modification is hardly untrue. The ability to create hurricanes or weaken them is reality. It doesn't matter the incorrect details of what this guy says, creating or weakening a hurricane is doable today. Why would you think otherwise? We (people in general) have powerful electromagnetic technologies.

Ashley, I cannot belive the iron-skinned sun gag is still doing the rounds. The plausibility is so low even given that stars do in fact deacy to iron ( From the inside out ) over time, anyone with a grade-school equivalent understanding of stars would see the holes in it. And UFOs didnt pick them. Big point: I think I recall that the sun rotates in something like eight days or less, doesn't it?

Ken, yes, the thing is doable, but the power requirements are insanely huge. You could only do it from orbit by using solar collectors for your energy source; After all, only about 10% or something similar or of the sun's energy at this far away ever reaches the Earth's surface. Besides, as the SF writers in the 70's outlined, the trick is not so much magnetic as heating effects upon the air via lasers - Not IR, of course, as they wouldn't get through the atmosphere.

In order to change atomoshperic conditions with elctromagnetics there would need to be something in the air for electormagnetism to effect. Electrons in the air may serve this purpose. If a picture tube is used as an example of what it takes to manipulate the path of electrons, it would be observed that a comparable large amount of energy is required to focus a cathode ray. If a magnet of the force required to manipulate the electrons in the air were activated at sea, it would pull down everything iron, such as ocean liners and oil rigs, within a fairly large radius.

okay....who is this man and who beleives him? Honestly...People always need some sort of answer for everthing that happens. Next thing we know Tom Cruise will have started the War in Iraq by using a special mind control device thats been kept secret since 1976. oh and very interesting find Matt

P.S and I KNOW who he is i just meant like what kind of man is he..

Yakuza ???????? Damn now I have to do a jehad against Yakuza too ? I am fed up of Al-Qaida , now they also doing same ?

Make no mistake but I am gonna smoke yakuza outta japan.

I am going to pass a $ 100 Trillion Bill for fighting against yakuza in addition to Al-Qaida.

Bush needs diversion, but THIS kind of diversion?
My jaw dropped.
I just hope no homey believes this, down there in Texas and all...

I could not stop laughing after I saw this news on Japanese site.
I thought American people are stupid or something.Like Chinese,everyting bad is caused by Japanese.
But it seems like crazy person is that guy,not majority.Thats good,u people are normal.

There were Japanese who claimed that the earthquake that hit Kobe, Japan 10 years ago was caused by the USA with an "earthquake weapon".
Idiots exist in any nations.