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FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER TSUNAMI DEBRIS<br />

inherent unpredictability overall. Spinrad also noted<br />

that any collaboration with DHS must occur within<br />

NOAA’s mission (which Spinrad and NOAA<br />

obviously felt HAMP did not do).<br />

NOAA houses the National Hurricane Center, the<br />

primary U.S. organization responsible for tracking<br />

and predicting hurricanes. Recent budget cuts are<br />

expected to hit NOAA’s satellite program, the heart<br />

of the organization’s weather forecasting system, by<br />

$182 million.<br />

Note that even Spinrad admits the existence of<br />

weather modification programs as if its general,<br />

accepted knowledge. Although DHS was turned<br />

down, the agency moved ahead with their research<br />

without NOAA’s participation.<br />

A paper co-written by several participants in the<br />

HAMP project including Joe Golden entitled,<br />

“Aerosol Effects and Microstructure on the Intensity<br />

of Tropical Cyclones,” was released in the July 2012<br />

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. In<br />

conclusion, the authors wrote, “We recommend that<br />

hurricane reconnaissance and research airplanes are<br />

equipped with aerosol and cloud physics instruments<br />

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