They can have our planes... and weather
Some of you may remember, that the Ho Chi Minh trail was the supply route used by the wily Viet Cong forces in their eventually successful campaign.
Bear with me now, for a little while, and I will quickly get us all back to modern times, and Irish politics, and the future of Aer Lingus, and why we have no need at all to worry about our connectivity with the rest of the world, and the future of the precious national airline.
Yet again, the pure truth.
I will have ye know, that in a desperate attempt to cut the Viet Cong supply lines away back then, the Americans deployed what was then new technology, and they “seeded” all the heavy clouds above the Ho Chi Minh trail, so that torrents of rain would turn the lands below into a quagmire, through which it would be very difficult indeed to move troops and supplies during the hours of darkness.
The tactic worked very well. It was other elements of the war that eventually saw the Viet Cong achieve victory.
Take it from me, and from a fascinating report delivered last week to the American Association For the Advancement of Science in San Jose, from the mouth of eminent climate expert Alan Robock of New Jersey.
It is now a fact that the boffins who could “seed” the clouds, all those decades ago, possess the ability to use climate-altering technologies as a weapon of war against other nations.
Frightening, but true.
And what is even more frightening is that the CIA in the USA, which once established a Centre on Climate Change and National Security, is quietly but deeply immersed in all the new techniques and tactics of using weather as a weapon.
Using weather as a weapon was officially banned as far back as 1978 but, when the chips are down, when has that sort of ban ever stood effectively in the path of the world’s powers?
Remarkably, it is a geographic fact that our Irish weather comes to us from the wide and wild Atlantic... dramatically so in recent days... and then it passes over us and descends upon England, and of course, upon the runways of Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport, which have featured so strongly in the ongoing debate about the future of Aer Lingus and our airports.
And, I learned from reliable sources this month, that we possess a number of top scientists who have at their fingertips all the knowledge necessary to use our weather as a weapon for our own ends.
These men could close down Heathrow and Gatwick and almost all the other English airports for a month at a time, with a succession of violent gales and storms and fogs, at the drop of a hat.
And the exercise, I’m informed, would cost only a fraction of what it will cost us to send all our Government overseas for Saint Patrick’s Day.
Would’nt you all agree with me, that all the Irish interests involved in the business discussions and debates about Aer Lingus and our future connectivity should let it be gently known to the other parties that we do have the ability to change their weather patterns any time we wish.
For sure, that would hugely tilt the scales in our favour.
Remember, you read it here first.
IT’S PURE TRUE
