Nuclear technology is the worst menace, cloudbusters are second, and electromagnetic technology is in third place as a threat to the biospheric energy functioning.
The "Weather Rangers" group amounts to a weather control cult with attitudes and intentions that would render them among the greatest menaces to this planet if their devices actually could work.
They seem inpervious to the concept of environmental responsibility. In fact, the over-all impression I get is of a 19th century attitude of extreme technophilia amounting to Hubris.
This group is barking mad, to put it mildly. The ideology expressed is about as far from anything ecologically sane as it is possible to get. The Saturday morning children's cartoons of the Mad Scientist comes to mind. They seem a parody more than anything resembling real people.
The nightmare mechanistic concept of a "centralized control system" with weather-control devices operated remotely from a distant spot flies in the face of the direct bioenergetic contact needed by a cloudbuster operator to maintain awareness of what he is doing.
There is no mention at all on this groups website of anything remotely resembling the idea that the atmosphere can or should be allowed to regulate itself, not be constantly controlled by humans for human reasons. If these people treat their kids the way they propose to treat the atmosphere those kids will end up with some serious problems.
The pious absurdity of "weather professionals" being the appropriate people to determine the weather is so out of touch with the reality of modern meteorology that I wondered if this was intended as a spoof or not.
The total lack of any ecological sensitivity is glaringly apparent in nearly everything David Wells, says. His proposal to give priority to the needs of farmers ignores the fact that farmers, a "big business" interest in modern society, have drained whole lakes and rivers in their insatiable thirst for irrigation, and if given the chance, would do the same to the sky. Remember, the Sacramento Delta was the richest fishing ground on earth until it was ruined to irrigate a water-intensive cotton crop in a land that is naturally desert. Farming should be abolished, not encouraged.
But the good news is that David Wells is wrong in other ways too, not just in setting policy. His "invention" is not anything like what he thinks it is, and is not capable of doing what he thinks it does. And it is not something new. If you strip away the layers of theory, speculation, hypothesis, and promotional hype, and look only at the actual observational data, it is obvious right away what this thing is doing and why.
ANY electromagnetic source of high-voltage is capable of causing an excitation in the atmosphere which will break up small clouds directly overhead. Radio and T.V. transmitters do it. Radar dishes do it. High-tension power lines out in the countryside do it. I have sat out in the open for hours at a time watching the clouds roll in and uniformly break up at exactly the same spot, time after time. None anyplace else, only at the point a little past where they crossed over a high-voltage power line. Every time.
The very strong, intense oranur excitation that is caused by radioactive materials has tended to overshadow the fact that a milder, but still significant oranur excitation can also be seen from electromagnetic devices of all sorts. One example is the misguided use of servo-motors powered by 12-volt batteries to operate cloudbusters by remote control. The field of the cloudbuster is expanded by the current passing through the wires within the field, and in turn, imparts excitation to the atmosphere. Richard Blasband thought this idea up to protect the operator from DOR-sickness while operating, and James DeMeo and others have copied him in using it.
It worked O.K. on the East Coast, where the atmosphere is much more mobile and moist, but on the West Coast, where there is rather chronic expansion DeMeo caused a drought he was working on to last much longer. He only was able to end the drought when he disconnected the motors and resorted to moving the pipes around by hand. And, though he won't admit it, he only did that after I had sent out an article I had written titled Mad Scientist Screws Up, explaining why he was not able to get the contraction of the atmosphere he was trying to get. I know he saw that article, but of course he would never give me credit for spotting an error he was making.
What the Wells device is doing is about the same thing: it is able to over-excite the atmosphere because it creates a mild oranur reaction, nowhere near as strong as that created by radioactivity, of course, but enough to break up weakly cohesive clouds at short-range. I would guess that the magnets involved in the device are amplifying the excitation in much the same way the field of the cloudbuster does when electrical motors are included in the system. The common factor being that the mild excitation caused by any electrical apparatus is amplified by passing through the orgone field of the cloudbuster in the one case, and by passing through the field of the magnet, which is really a rather specialized and structured orgone field, in the other.
Wells noticed the breaking up of clouds, but did not understand it or know that the same effect has been observed before, and he has let his imagination run wild with the idea. He has managed to delude himself and gather a cult of followers, none of which should be surprising when you take a look at some of the other cults that are around. Delusions of reference are commonplace. So are fantasies of controlling the weather.
Some of the phenomena he claims are also well-known in orgonomic literature. The acceleration of plant growth was mentioned by Reich after the oranur experiment, when among all the other things that happened, a tree just outside the laboratory burst into full bloom in the dead of winter. This effect, along with the trophism of plants turning towards the machine, are both also familiar from the writings of Georges Lakovsky about his Multiple Wave Oscillator, which was an electrotherapy device widely promoted in the 1930s. In fact, in the first half of the 20th century there was a whole generation of electrotherapy devices which all achived their results by the excitation of the bodily orgone field by the mild oranur effect induced by electrical current. The regeneration experiments of Dr. Robert Becker are another example you might be familiar with.
So the claims Wells makes of some people being able to feel effects from his machine, or that some of them have felt better from exposure to it, or that plants grow better from being near it, or that they turn toward it, fall right into place here and no new explanation is needed.
I must admit it is something of a relief to not have to worry abut this bunch of maniacs running around with something that could really control weather. In fact, I have had to go over this whole explanation very carefully, step by step, to be certain I was not falling into a similar trap and convincing myself of what I wanted to believe. But I have gone over everything Wells and his main followers are saying, every claim they make that reports an actual observation, not just a speculation or theory, and it holds up at each stage of the way. If only the actual observations are considered, and the hype, theory, speculation, and assumptions are left out, what he is doing is seeing the relatively minor effects from an electrical excitation of a magnetic field and generalizing from that to a far-reaching delusional system that others have bought into for whatever dynamics of their own.
I suggest you check out the Wikipedia entry for Apophenia and also look up Delusions of Reference. The psychodynamics of this group are nothing new or unique: on the contrary, all religions, political movements, and cults include elements of this kind of self-deception.
Cloudbusters are desperately needed to offset the damage from nukes, but in the hands of all the crackpots, conspiracy-freaks, mystics, and mechanistic "alternative science" inventors like Jerry Decker and his friends, or these "Weather Rangers" types, they have been transformed into an environmental danger second only to the nuclear industry itself.
I am going to write quite a lot about these internet mechanists and their electronic "weather control" adventurism. They do not really have an effective technology, but they should be exposed anyway, because if they are not contrasted to the atmospheric medicine concept that should underly any attempt to intervene in weather functioning, sooner or later someone will start to follow their lead using real cloudbusters. And that could be the worst catastrophe since the Klimasturtz 5,350 years ago.
I have now read nearly everything David Wells has written on weather and there is no convincing such people of anything. He is a control-freak and wants to be in control. Such people are not reformable.
There are some small children who like to blow soap bubbles to watch them and enjoy how pretty they look and are sad when the bubble breaks. There are other small children who like to break soap bubbles. Those kids grow up to be the people like David Wells. They like to smash anything alive and healthy and natural.
What the world needs to deal with this sort of problem is something like what the old Natural Weather Association used to do, to expose pathologies in the weather field and educate the public about why this is the wrong way to work on the weather.. That is what I have tried to do in the past regarding James DeMeo, and it now looks like somebody should be doing the same about David Wells.
I have now read nearly everything David Wells has written on weather and there is no convincing such people of anything. He is a control-freak and wants to be in control. Such people are not reformable.
Look at all the gloating he does about being able to control weather. Look at how he thinks everything the atmosphere does should be under control. Look at how he shows no awareness at all that the atmosphere is anything other than a dead, non-living, mass of inert gases, instead of an alive energetic continuum with the same basic characteristics as himself.
There is no way anyone could ever convince him to leave it alone unless it needs his help. There is no way to convince such people that the atmosphere is capable of self-regulation, and that the only reason to intervene in that is when it becomes sick, which is usually due to something humans have done to it.
To do weather working responsibly requires first, to understand the normal atmosphere, how it functions when it is acting normally. Then, after you understand that, you next study what can go wrong with it, what causes droughts, excessive cold, floods, and more than normal numbers of tornadoes, etc. Then, after you know how to diagnose the problems, then you can usually figure out what to do to repair it and restore things to normal. That is the proper goal. After that has been done, it can then be left alone to take care of itself.
David Wells and his followers do not see any of that. They see the normal atmosphere, the natural conditions under which we evolved and to which we are best adapted, the conditions which are therefore best for our lives, as something alien, dangerous, and inconvenient. And they see nothing wrong with changing it to make it more to their liking.
This is the same attitude as the people who think there is nothing wrong with damming rivers, strip-mining the earth, clear-cutting forests, and catching every fish in the oceans. They are spoiled brats at heart, who think everything in the world was put here for them and they can do as they please with it.
They cannot understand that the severe weather events that the evening news tells them are a disaster, are really a healthy reaction of the atmosphere to try to get rid of some of the pollution and stagnation that human technologies have put into it and are causing more troubles than the severe storms ever could.
It is like treating a patient with a fever. It may sometimes be necessary to cool him off, but the fever itself is not the illness. The fever is a fighting response of the body to something that is a real danger to it, and to just give every patient who has a high temperature a drug to lower his temperature without knowing or caring what the cause of the fever might be, is not a good way to practice medicine.
And the really hard part to understand, is that David Wells and his followers CANNOT LEARN this sort of thing; they are not capable of learning to think of the atmosphere as a living thing, with moods, attitudes, and reactions to stimuli. Think of some people you have known who like to hunt animals for sport. Do you think you could ever convince them animals are able to feel pain? That animals have rights? That killing animals for fun indicates the same sort of personality as killing humans for fun? People who hunt for fun have a blind spot when it comes to empathizing with animals. And weather-control freaks have exactly the same kind of blind spot when it comes to realizing that the atmosphere is a living thing and should be treated accordingly.
So, forget trying to convince David Wells. He and the kind of people he will attract with his "control the weather" ideology are a part of the problem, part of the way the humans are destroying this planet, along with the nuclear reactors, the nuclear weapons stockpiles, the loggers and strip-miners and commercial fishing fleets, and they will never be anything else.
And the people who have somehow retained at least a bit of contact with their deep feelings, and still have an awareness of the living atmosphere, will recognize the wrongness of what he says and know that he is a menace to the environment. I was not the first to point that out, you know. Jeane Manning wrote exactly the same thing about him on her blog last year.
Convincing them is impossible because their attitude is not based on lack of knowledge; it is based on a personality disorder. And that cannot be cured with information.
They seem inpervious to the concept of environmental responsibility. In fact, the over-all impression I get is of a 19th century attitude of extreme technophilia amounting to Hubris.
This group is barking mad, to put it mildly. The ideology expressed is about as far from anything ecologically sane as it is possible to get. The Saturday morning children's cartoons of the Mad Scientist comes to mind. They seem a parody more than anything resembling real people.
The nightmare mechanistic concept of a "centralized control system" with weather-control devices operated remotely from a distant spot flies in the face of the direct bioenergetic contact needed by a cloudbuster operator to maintain awareness of what he is doing.
There is no mention at all on this groups website of anything remotely resembling the idea that the atmosphere can or should be allowed to regulate itself, not be constantly controlled by humans for human reasons. If these people treat their kids the way they propose to treat the atmosphere those kids will end up with some serious problems.
The pious absurdity of "weather professionals" being the appropriate people to determine the weather is so out of touch with the reality of modern meteorology that I wondered if this was intended as a spoof or not.
The total lack of any ecological sensitivity is glaringly apparent in nearly everything David Wells, says. His proposal to give priority to the needs of farmers ignores the fact that farmers, a "big business" interest in modern society, have drained whole lakes and rivers in their insatiable thirst for irrigation, and if given the chance, would do the same to the sky. Remember, the Sacramento Delta was the richest fishing ground on earth until it was ruined to irrigate a water-intensive cotton crop in a land that is naturally desert. Farming should be abolished, not encouraged.
But the good news is that David Wells is wrong in other ways too, not just in setting policy. His "invention" is not anything like what he thinks it is, and is not capable of doing what he thinks it does. And it is not something new. If you strip away the layers of theory, speculation, hypothesis, and promotional hype, and look only at the actual observational data, it is obvious right away what this thing is doing and why.
ANY electromagnetic source of high-voltage is capable of causing an excitation in the atmosphere which will break up small clouds directly overhead. Radio and T.V. transmitters do it. Radar dishes do it. High-tension power lines out in the countryside do it. I have sat out in the open for hours at a time watching the clouds roll in and uniformly break up at exactly the same spot, time after time. None anyplace else, only at the point a little past where they crossed over a high-voltage power line. Every time.
The very strong, intense oranur excitation that is caused by radioactive materials has tended to overshadow the fact that a milder, but still significant oranur excitation can also be seen from electromagnetic devices of all sorts. One example is the misguided use of servo-motors powered by 12-volt batteries to operate cloudbusters by remote control. The field of the cloudbuster is expanded by the current passing through the wires within the field, and in turn, imparts excitation to the atmosphere. Richard Blasband thought this idea up to protect the operator from DOR-sickness while operating, and James DeMeo and others have copied him in using it.
It worked O.K. on the East Coast, where the atmosphere is much more mobile and moist, but on the West Coast, where there is rather chronic expansion DeMeo caused a drought he was working on to last much longer. He only was able to end the drought when he disconnected the motors and resorted to moving the pipes around by hand. And, though he won't admit it, he only did that after I had sent out an article I had written titled Mad Scientist Screws Up, explaining why he was not able to get the contraction of the atmosphere he was trying to get. I know he saw that article, but of course he would never give me credit for spotting an error he was making.
What the Wells device is doing is about the same thing: it is able to over-excite the atmosphere because it creates a mild oranur reaction, nowhere near as strong as that created by radioactivity, of course, but enough to break up weakly cohesive clouds at short-range. I would guess that the magnets involved in the device are amplifying the excitation in much the same way the field of the cloudbuster does when electrical motors are included in the system. The common factor being that the mild excitation caused by any electrical apparatus is amplified by passing through the orgone field of the cloudbuster in the one case, and by passing through the field of the magnet, which is really a rather specialized and structured orgone field, in the other.
Wells noticed the breaking up of clouds, but did not understand it or know that the same effect has been observed before, and he has let his imagination run wild with the idea. He has managed to delude himself and gather a cult of followers, none of which should be surprising when you take a look at some of the other cults that are around. Delusions of reference are commonplace. So are fantasies of controlling the weather.
Some of the phenomena he claims are also well-known in orgonomic literature. The acceleration of plant growth was mentioned by Reich after the oranur experiment, when among all the other things that happened, a tree just outside the laboratory burst into full bloom in the dead of winter. This effect, along with the trophism of plants turning towards the machine, are both also familiar from the writings of Georges Lakovsky about his Multiple Wave Oscillator, which was an electrotherapy device widely promoted in the 1930s. In fact, in the first half of the 20th century there was a whole generation of electrotherapy devices which all achived their results by the excitation of the bodily orgone field by the mild oranur effect induced by electrical current. The regeneration experiments of Dr. Robert Becker are another example you might be familiar with.
So the claims Wells makes of some people being able to feel effects from his machine, or that some of them have felt better from exposure to it, or that plants grow better from being near it, or that they turn toward it, fall right into place here and no new explanation is needed.
I must admit it is something of a relief to not have to worry abut this bunch of maniacs running around with something that could really control weather. In fact, I have had to go over this whole explanation very carefully, step by step, to be certain I was not falling into a similar trap and convincing myself of what I wanted to believe. But I have gone over everything Wells and his main followers are saying, every claim they make that reports an actual observation, not just a speculation or theory, and it holds up at each stage of the way. If only the actual observations are considered, and the hype, theory, speculation, and assumptions are left out, what he is doing is seeing the relatively minor effects from an electrical excitation of a magnetic field and generalizing from that to a far-reaching delusional system that others have bought into for whatever dynamics of their own.
I suggest you check out the Wikipedia entry for Apophenia and also look up Delusions of Reference. The psychodynamics of this group are nothing new or unique: on the contrary, all religions, political movements, and cults include elements of this kind of self-deception.
