IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) � An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a
Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to
avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack � and that this technology
will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.
Meteorologist Scott Stevens, a nine-year veteran of KPVI-TV in Pocatello, said
he was struggling to forecast weather patterns starting in 1998 when he
discovered the theory on the Internet. It's now detailed on Stevens' website,
www.weatherwars.info, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.

Stevens, who is among several people to offer alternative and generally
discounted theories for the storm that flooded New Orleans, says a little-known
oversight in physical laws makes it possible to create and control storms �
especially if you're armed with the Cold War-era weapon said to have been made
by the Russians in 1976. Stevens became convinced of the existence of the
Russian device when he observed an unusual Montana cold front in 2004.

"I just got sick to my stomach because these clouds were unnatural and that
meant they had (the machine) on all the time," Stevens said. "I was left trying
to forecast the intent of some organization rather than the weather of this
planet."

Stevens said oddities in Hurricane Katrina storm patterns underpin his theory.

And, according to his website, so does the fact that Katrina and Ivan � the
name given to a destructive hurricane that hit Florida in September 2004 � both
sound Russian.

Scientists discount Stevens' claims as ludicrous and say they run contrary to
the second law of thermodynamics, that energy can be neither created nor
destroyed.

"I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and
there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina,"
said Rob Young, a hurricane expert at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee,
N.C. "It's laughable to think it could have been manmade."

Stevens' bosses at KPVI-TV say their employee can think and say what he wants �
as long as he keeps the station out of the debate and acknowledges that his
views are his own opinion. Bill Fouch, KPVI's general manager, compared
Stevens' musings to political or religious beliefs that journalists suppress on
the job.

"He doesn't talk about it on his weathercast," Fouch said. "He's very
knowledgeable about weather, and he's very popular."

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