Resolved: Hurricane Katrina was likely a Conspiracy.

Tesla and HAARP Tesla, how many conspiracy theories surround the man? He was a genius and he had an infamous disagreement with Edison. (1) Now, I don't want to degrade Tesla's work, I am a fan, but to claim a link between Tesla and HAARP is absurd. In fact in your source it states “Enter HAARP. The assumed notion that the project known as HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is descended from Tesla's work, is something of an absurdity with reference to Tesla's previous affirmation. ”(2) As such my opponents contention that there is a link between Tesla and Harp is defeated. Additionally, all the scare stories in the other source cited by my opponent are surely nullified as it also works on the false assumption that HAARP is Tesla technology. I would also like to note that there is apparently network of HAARP sites across the globe. Yet the only available pictures come form the one HAARP experiment in Alaska which has been inactive since 2013 and is also getting dismantled. I suppose we need to find something else to blame bad weather on now. (3) Then another dubious claim is the island of Bermeja in the Gulf suddenly disappearing in 2009. The only problem is that this island did already not exist in 1997. (4) It seems my opponent really needs more reliable source to prove his claim, as these two source disprove his claim that HAARP is anything but a scientific research program to probe the ionosphere and its effects on communication. (5) In fact, there is no evidence to show HAARP can cause weather changes. HAARP caused Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy My opponent makes this very bold claim that HAARP (hence the US government) was behind the creation of two Hurricanes. However, up till this point my opponent has absolutely zero proof to show that HAARP can be used to alter the weather. To break it down my opponent claims Hurricanes cannot have lightening as “because they do not produce electrical fields. It's simply, because Hurricanes do not have verticle winds, they have horizontal winds. ” This is false as a Hurricane is a self containing system, see my previous round, this means it must have both horizontal and vertical winds. However, even more important if we consult the people at the NOAA Hurricane Research Division we find out that Hurricanes do in fact have lighting strikes with about 100 strikes per hour. (6) I would also like to add here that Ventura got rejected after making a request to HAARP, and importantly that request was for a conspiracy TV show. Understandably the government would turn down a non-scientific TV crew when this is scientific research and not to amuse conspiracy theorists. The other link my opponent gives is to another conspiracy site, which give images with no sources to real data. This makes me discredit this information as they also makes claims of UFOs being true as well as a variety of other lunatic ideas. The Motive My opponent goes into detail here why the government would be interested in creating a Hurricane. Now while interesting, I can't take these claims seriously until there is factual evidence to show that HAARP is in fact capable of creating these storms, earthquakes, island destructions etc. In this round I have shown the claims of my opponent to be based on false assertions. As such I believe the argument is defeated. I now hand the debate back over to my opponent for the final round. (1) . http://www.forbes.com... (2) . http://www.borderlands.com... (3) . http://rt.com... (4) . http://en.wikipedia.org... (5) . http://rationalwiki.org... (6) . http://www.aoml.noaa.gov...