FW: MYANMAR CYCLONE AN ENGINEERED EVENT?

From: Andrew Johnson

Date: 2008-05-12 08:26:44

  —–Original Message—–From: nuclear.free.zone@gm… [mailto:nuclear.free.zone@gm…]On Behalf Of CAMPAIGNSent: 12 May 2008 02:01To: CAMPAIGNSubject: MYANMAR CYCLONE AN ENGINEERED EVENT? ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Westaway Date: Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:28 AMSubject: MYANMAR CYCLONE AN ENGINEERED EVENT?To: Don Nordin In a recent archived interview Alfred Webre postulated that the Myanmarcyclone was an weather warfare attack with electromagnetic weapons.  Thisinterview can be heard, whenposted, at www.aunetwork.tv/***… had makings of perfect stormNargis followed unusual route to Myanmar delta, where it killed tens ofthousands.By Michael CaseyASSOCIATED PRESSSunday, May 11, 2008BANGKOK, Thailand — A cyclone with winds up to 120 mph. A low-lying, denselypopulated delta region, stripped of its protective trees.When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta and pushed a wall ofwater 25 miles inland, it had all the makings of a massive disaster.”When we saw the (storm) track, I said, ‘Uh oh, this is not going to begood,'” said Mark Lander, a meteorology professor at the University of Guam.”It would create a big storm surge. It was like Katrina going into NewOrleans.”Forecasters began tracking the cyclone April 28 as it first headed towardIndia. As projected, it took a sharp turn eastward but didn’t follow thetypical cyclone track in that area leading to Bangladesh or Myanmar’smountainous northwest.Instead, it swept into the low-lying Irrawaddy delta in central Myanmar. Theresult was the worst disaster in the impoverished country.It was the first time such an intense storm hit the delta, said JeffMasters, co-founder and director of meteorology at the San Francisco-basedWeather Underground. He called it “one of those once-in-every-500-years kindof things.””The easterly component of the path is unusual,” Masters said. “It trackedright over the most vulnerable part of the country, where most of the peoplelive.”When the storm made landfall early May 3 at the mouth of the IrrawaddyRiver, its battering winds pushed a wall of water as high as 12 feet some 25miles inland, laying waste to villages and killing tens of thousands.Most of the dead were in the delta, where farm families sleeping in flimsyshacks barely above sea level were swept to their deaths. Almost 95 percentof the houses and other buildings in seven townships were destroyed,Myanmar’s government says. U.N. officials estimate 1.5 million people wereleft in severe straits.”When you look at the satellite picture of before and after the storm, theeffects look eerily similar to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in how itinundated low-lying areas,” said Ken Reeves, director of forecasting forAccuWeather.com.The Irrawaddy delta “is huge and the interaction of water and land lyingright at sea level allowed the tidal surge to deliver maximum penetration ofsea water over land,” Reeves said. “Storms like this do most of theirkilling through floods, with salt water being even more dangerous than freshwater.”The delta had lost most of its mangrove forests along the coast to shrimpfarms and rice paddies over the past decade. That removed what scientistssay is one of nature’s best defenses against violent storms.”If you look at the path of the (cyclone) that hit Myanmar, it hit exactlywhere it was going to do the most damage, and it’s doing the most damagebecause much of the protective vegetation was cleared,” said Jeff McNeely,chief scientist for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.”It’s an expensive lesson, but it has been one taught repeatedly,” he said.”You just wonder why governments don’t get on this.”Some environmentalists suggested global warming may have played a role.Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded thatwarming oceans could contribute to increasingly severe cyclones withstronger winds and heavier rains.”Nargis is a sign of things to come,” said Sunita Narain, director of theIndian environmental group Center for Science and Environment. “The victimsof these cyclones are climate change victims, and their plight should remindthe rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gasemissions.”Weather experts, however, are divided over whether global warming is afactor in catastrophic storms. At a January conference of the AmericanMeteorological Society, some postulated warmer ocean temperatures mayactually reduce the strength of cyclones and hurricanes.Despite assertions by Myanmar’s military government that it warned peopleabout the storm, critics contend the junta didn’t do enough to alert thedelta and failed to organize any evacuations, saying that made the deathtoll worse.– _________________________________Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEdICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space3339 West 41 AvenueVancouver, B.C. V6N3E5 CANADATEL: 604-733-8134FAX: 604-733-8135Email: alw@peaceinspace.com…: www.peaceinspace.com…: www.peaceinspace.org… FREE ZONE: peaceinspace.blogs.c… War Crimes Tribunal: peaceinspace.blogs.c…