HAARP: Real Science, Public Skepticism, and the SAGO Rename
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Conspiracy theories about HAARP persist, but scientists say it only heats tiny ionosphere patches briefly with 180 transmitters and cannot alter climate, while Jessica Matthews, Whit Reeve, and David Hysell describe the work as radio‑wave research rather than weather manipulation, and a plan to rename it Subauroral Geophysical Observatory aims to distance it from conspiracy culture.