Does HAARP have anything to do with global warming? Nope

If you’ve been following the news lately, you’d have noticed that there’s quite a bit of chatter surrounding America’s HAARP research facility. Most notably, India’s environmental minister Anil Madhav Dave told the Rajya Sabha that HAARP was directly responsible for global warming. Dave insists that the Alaskan HAARP facility functions as an ionospheric heater that can be used to heat the atmosphere, create localised weather affects and generally create havoc the world over. Does he actually know what an ionospheric heater is? Who knows. But why stop at global warming? HAARP has been accused of creating everything from earthquakes to tornadoes to even mind-controlling hapless humans from half the world away. And yes, that’s a heavy dose of sarcasm that you’re detecting. HAARP stands for High frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The research facility in question consists of an array of radio antennae spread over many acres. Combined, the facility is capable of pumping 3.6MW ( Holy sh**!) or 70ERP of radio energy into the ionosphere and destroying the world as we know it. America is on the verge of ushering a new age of superweapon and world domination is just a Donald Trump away. Rubbish. Ionospheric heaters and HAARP-style facilities have existed since at least 1939. Global warming started long before that. Oh, and did you know that India has its own HAARP facility in the form of the National MST Radar Facility near Tirupati? It’s not exactly the same, but it’s similar enough to be worth mentioning in the same breath as HAARP. Also, did you know that Russia has a 180ERP ionospheric heater on their land? Did you know that there are dozens of such facilities the world over? All HAARP actually does is bounce radio waves off the ionosphere to determine the scattering effect on radio waves when they pass through the atmosphere. Bouncing radio waves off the atmosphere is essential for radio communication over great distances, particularly when your military is scattered all over the world. Words like ionisation and electron bombardment can sound terrifying, as do the megawatts of energy being pumped into the atmosphere. But these are only terrifying to the uninformed. Firstly, a radio wave would lose a massive amount of energy by the time it reached the atmosphere. Secondly, the radio energy generated is nowhere near enough to vaporise a cloud, let alone impact the atmosphere, even locally, in any significant fashion. Thirdly, lightning strikes routinely generate over 1 gigawatt of power and ionise the air around them while reaching temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning also strikes the earth an estimated 30 times a second. If 3.6MW of power is capable of vapourising clouds and inducing global warming, imagine what 400 times that power would do, and more than 3 million times a day at that. We’d be sitting on a glass planet. If you don’t believe us, just ask any competent scientist.