I do not think orgonomy will ever be accepted by the scientific mainstream. It is too far out of step for that to ever happen. Not only paid scientists, but any educated layman who has a good understanding of modern science, knows better that to agree with anything so "obviously wrong".
I think some people's desire for research funding to become available has made them too optimistic about the prospects for acceptance of the orgone theory. It will not happen in our lifetime.It would be better for them to search for private sources of research funding instead of waiting for governments to fund orgone research.
But if it ever did happen that the scientific world got converted, it would be a total disaster. Then millions of idiots would take up cloudbusting as a sport. The result would be atmospheric chaos and more destruction than this world could ever hope to survive. And you can forget about government reulation. It is physically impossible to stop any great number of cloudbuster-freaks from building and using secret cloudbusters. They are too easy to make and the materials are too easy to get.
Cloudbusting is already illegal. There are laws almost everywhere that could be used to ban cloudbusting if the prosecutors wanted to enforce them. In America, the Wilderness Act makes it illegal to "alter the pristine character of a designated Wilderness Area. That would include altering the weather of such an area, and since there are many such designated areas, and the typical cloudbuster operation covers so much ground, it is impossible to use one in the western states without violating that law.
The Endangered Species Act makes it illegal to do anything that affects the habitat of an endangered species, and there are so many of them that any orop would violate that law also.
The National Environmental Policy Act makes it a requirement to hold public hearings to allow the public to commnent before doing anything that would affect the environment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a requirement that any weather-modification project must notify them at least ten days in advance of the start of operations. There is a $10,000 fine for failure to notify them.
In Australia, all weather modification needs a specific act passed by the legislature, and is not allowed without such an act. In the European Union, international human rights agreements forbid doing any scientific experiments on people without their consent, so to do a weather-control experiment it would be necessary to get the consent of every person in the area to be affected, or it would be a violation of the rights of anyone who did not give consent to be experimented upon.
There are also financial liability issues involved. In several American states, cloudseeders are required to have insurance coverage to guarentee they can compensate anyone whose property is damaged by their operations. Those laws would also apply to cloudbusting.
When Trevor Constable wrote an article about his using an aircraft for airbourne cloudbusting operations in Hawaii, I contacted the Federal Aviation Administration and told them about it. I sent them a picture of the airplane that Constable had published in his article about it, showing the equipment attached to the outside of the small airplane. They investigated, and the pilot had his license suspended for a time. It is illegal to attach anything to the outside of an aircraft that might alter the flight characteristics of the aircraft. This is an excellent example of how activists can use existing laws to obstruct atmosphere abuse without having to convince anybody about the effectiveness of cloudbusting.
So cloudbusting is already illegal almost everywhere. Anyone doing cloudbusting is in violation of several laws that already exist. What we need to do is be creative in thinking up ways to get those laws enforced without having to convince the scientific community or the government that cloudbusters work.
Cloudbusting is already illegal. There are laws almost everywhere that could be used to ban cloudbusting if the prosecutors wanted to enforce them. In America, the Wilderness Act makes it illegal to "alter the pristine character of a designated Wilderness Area. That would include altering the weather of such an area, and since there are many such designated areas, and the typical cloudbuster operation covers so much ground, it is impossible to use one in the western states without violating that law.
The Endangered Species Act makes it illegal to do anything that affects the habitat of an endangered species, and there are so many of them that any orop would violate that law also.
The National Environmental Policy Act makes it a requirement to hold public hearings to allow the public to commnent before doing anything that would affect the environment.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a requirement that any weather-modification project must notify them at least ten days in advance of the start of operations. There is a $10,000 fine for failure to notify them.
In Australia, all weather modification needs a specific act passed by the legislature, and is not allowed without such an act. In the European Union, international human rights agreements forbid doing any scientific experiments on people without their consent, so to do a weather-control experiment it would be necessary to get the consent of every person in the area to be affected, or it would be a violation of the rights of anyone who did not give consent to be experimented upon.
There are also financial liability issues involved. In several American states, cloudseeders are required to have insurance coverage to guarentee they can compensate anyone whose property is damaged by their operations. Those laws would also apply to cloudbusting.
When Trevor Constable wrote an article about his using an aircraft for airbourne cloudbusting operations in Hawaii, I contacted the Federal Aviation Administration and told them about it. I sent them a picture of the airplane that Constable had published in his article about it, showing the equipment attached to the outside of the small airplane. They investigated, and the pilot had his license suspended for a time. It is illegal to attach anything to the outside of an aircraft that might alter the flight characteristics of the aircraft. This is an excellent example of how activists can use existing laws to obstruct atmosphere abuse without having to convince anybody about the effectiveness of cloudbusting.
So cloudbusting is already illegal almost everywhere. Anyone doing cloudbusting is in violation of several laws that already exist. What we need to do is be creative in thinking up ways to get those laws enforced without having to convince the scientific community or the government that cloudbusters work.
Anyway, what makes anyone think the government could be trusted to use it any more responsibly than anyone else? They would do as many wrong things with it as most people.
The Orgonomic Ecology blog, www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com , is not aimed at winning converts to orgonomy. It is aimed at people who already know at least something about cloudbusting and are not scientists and are willing to at least consider that it might work. If 01% of my readers end up joining me in a campaign to stop cloudbuster malpractice, that would be a good result.
There are other things that can be done to put pressure on individuals and companies besides passing laws, and it would only take a small number of people to do some of them, so I do not need to win over the whole public. Boycotts, public exposure and shaming, and sabotage of equipment used in their activities, driving up their expenses, are all tactics that have been used successfully by various movements.
The Animal Rights movement is one good example of a group that uses tactics that can be used by a small minority to put pressure on evildoers despite lack of majority suport.
By exposing the ecological problems caused by his cloudbusting, I have been able to persuade several people to stop donating to DeMeo's research fund. This reduces his ability to go on cloudbusting expeditions.
The Animal Rights movement is one good example of a group that uses tactics that can be used by a small minority to put pressure on evildoers despite lack of majority suport.
By exposing the ecological problems caused by his cloudbusting, I have been able to persuade several people to stop donating to DeMeo's research fund. This reduces his ability to go on cloudbusting expeditions.
I do not need a majority. I need a few good determined activists who are not afraid to be out of step with the mainstream of their culture. And the blog is intended to help me find them. If I can get a few people who are willing to work hard on the issue of atmosphere abuse by cloudbuster malpractice, that will be enough. I do not need the scientists or government. Especially since that is impossible anyway.
So my trying to educate those few who might be interested in helping with a campaign is not inconsistant with my saying it would be better to discredit orgonomy to the public to help keep down the numbers of cloudbuster freaks who would take it up as a sport if they found out about it.